I am wondering if people can throw out some thoughts, tips, and ideas (both mental and physical) on shooting fast.
Here is a pretty common dry fire routine for me:
- Seated or odd position seated and slung
- Optic set around 12x and focused for multiple, uniform POAs at 130 yrds, POAs have 1/4 MOA, 2 MOA, and 6 MOA features. Typical COFs - El Presidente / Mozambiques / etc)
- Vision - I try to only focus on some small detail of POA, I working on limiting the time I spend on switching my focus back to the cross hair to confirm POA = POI before breaking the shot. For ¼ MOA to 2 MOA – it is as brief of a period as I can, for 2+ MOA targets (where POI is to be centered) I only look at the small detail of the POA and break it as soon as the cross hair comes on line. The ability to find a small detail and settle quickly is the major hurdle and body position has obviously been critical.
- Trigger Pull – after following and working diligently on hand position and trigger pull from this thread Differences in Shooting A Gas Gun ; the temptation is to slap at it. Conceptually as long as you don’t lean on it and your hand position is mint – you can. Otherwise, you need to be able to pre-stage your (finger pressure) trigger. I don’t quite have the touch as of yet to really pre-stage and I am not sure I like that method – but it is the fastest – esp keep your focus on the POA only.
Running the bolt – between the sticky buttpad, sling, and hold (esp with a long action) I find that I am much faster running the bolt by rolling the rifle 10 degrees outboard after follow through as it gives me more reach and I don’t have to move my rear elbow from a stable spot. The downside is even though my eyes remain on POA, I have rolled the optic away from my eye – consistency of head position is critical so that the optic rolls back to the same alignment with the eye. The alternate – keeping the optic to my eye requires that I get my elbow back down and settled; and due to reach issues, often moves my overall body position some.
For some reason I am much faster on shots 2+ with the same level of accuracy. My snap shots from a non shouldered starting position are pretty slow.
I will grab a timer and post some splits.
Good luck
Here is a pretty common dry fire routine for me:
- Seated or odd position seated and slung
- Optic set around 12x and focused for multiple, uniform POAs at 130 yrds, POAs have 1/4 MOA, 2 MOA, and 6 MOA features. Typical COFs - El Presidente / Mozambiques / etc)
- Vision - I try to only focus on some small detail of POA, I working on limiting the time I spend on switching my focus back to the cross hair to confirm POA = POI before breaking the shot. For ¼ MOA to 2 MOA – it is as brief of a period as I can, for 2+ MOA targets (where POI is to be centered) I only look at the small detail of the POA and break it as soon as the cross hair comes on line. The ability to find a small detail and settle quickly is the major hurdle and body position has obviously been critical.
- Trigger Pull – after following and working diligently on hand position and trigger pull from this thread Differences in Shooting A Gas Gun ; the temptation is to slap at it. Conceptually as long as you don’t lean on it and your hand position is mint – you can. Otherwise, you need to be able to pre-stage your (finger pressure) trigger. I don’t quite have the touch as of yet to really pre-stage and I am not sure I like that method – but it is the fastest – esp keep your focus on the POA only.
Running the bolt – between the sticky buttpad, sling, and hold (esp with a long action) I find that I am much faster running the bolt by rolling the rifle 10 degrees outboard after follow through as it gives me more reach and I don’t have to move my rear elbow from a stable spot. The downside is even though my eyes remain on POA, I have rolled the optic away from my eye – consistency of head position is critical so that the optic rolls back to the same alignment with the eye. The alternate – keeping the optic to my eye requires that I get my elbow back down and settled; and due to reach issues, often moves my overall body position some.
For some reason I am much faster on shots 2+ with the same level of accuracy. My snap shots from a non shouldered starting position are pretty slow.
I will grab a timer and post some splits.
Good luck
