The above are bench-rest shooter's "methods" for precision shooting. which is always possible, but not as likely as the poor way you've been using to sight-in your rifle. Try it the above way I've suggested and I am confident your "groups" will shrink drastically unless your rifle doesn't "like" your ammo. I even allow the barrel to cool down after each shot before making another shot since in a hunting situation, you'll undoubtedly be shooting from a COLD barrel.Ī good many rifles do NOT shoot to the same point-of-impact from a cold barrel as they do from a warm or hot barrel, so try to duplicate your barrel's condition in a hunting situation as much as you possibly can when sighting the rifle "in" or checking your rifle's "zero". This is the ONLY way to sight-in a rifle and be assured that each shot is a true measure of the rifle's accuracy using the ammo you're using.ĭo this with EACH shot. practically LAY on it to help give your body and shoulder solid support. Put as much of your body as possible on the bench-rest. If the blanket isn't holding the cross-hairs on the center of the bullseye, re-adjust the blanket (or rifle rest with a sandbag on the rest-part), re-align the cross-hairs until they are held in position by the blanket and your shoulder, then start the breathing over again and begin your trigger pull again. If the scope's cross-hairs wander off of the CENTER of the bullseye, stop squeezing, but do not let up on the trigger, hold your tension & realign the sight on the target, then begin your slow squeezing from that point. Keep squeezing (not "pulling") the trigger with ever-increasing tension until the rifle SURPRISES you and goes off. Then take one deep breath, let half of it out and hold your breath while s-l-o-w-l-y SQUEEZING the trigger ever tighter. Take several DEEP breaths once you've got your scope's cross-hairs solidly in the middle of the bullseye and not moving in the least, use your left hand with your left arm curled around with your left thumb and forefinger squeezing the toe of your rifle's butt-stock and pushing the butt-stock solidly against your shoulder then take a few more deep breathes and let them out. Do NOT rest the rifle's BARREL on the blanket, rest the forearm. Go to a rifle range, use their bench-rest and use sandbags or a SOFT, folded-up blanket on which to rest the FOREARM of your rifle. In addition, holding a rifle in your hands & against your shoulder while resting on a hard surface is a formula for wildly spaced bullet strikes exactly like the results you've gotten. The rifle will "bounce" AWAY from any hard surface when in recoil. You can't use the hard back of a chair as a rest and expect small groups.
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