Reducing your splits on long-range targets

[lknbigfish]

some great info here

[Build4u]

If you want to shoot faster splits at greater distances practice at 50 yards. Your errors will show up magnified. You will first see if you are zeroed correctly. Go prone and shoot, if you can not keep all shots in the A you have something to work on if you want to be good. You will see if your gun is tracking straight or not, certain powders will make a dot look like it twirls instead of a straight vertical track however high it might be. A violent gun makes it difficult to call your shot regardless of iron sights or open. Errors in your grip will show up controlling the recoil/tracking. The results of poor trigger control will be obvious. Is the gun coming back to point of aim? staying to high? coming back down to far? Equipment tuning is needed. Six shot drills are good. Set a time you can shoot six A's in and work shorter on times. Shoot the practice on paper, not to many shots before you actually analyze the results scoring and taping the target compared to what you saw through your sights. (calling the shot). What did you see? When you can control the gun and have everything dialed in at 50 it will make shots easier and faster at closer distances or when shot difficulty goes up because of no shoots or hard cover. Watch how few points your top shooters give up, It is not from going through the course with Gazelle like speed. If your skill level does not let you shoot well enough at 50 try 40, or 30 if you have to but work on pushing it back out as you improve.

Edited December 27, 2014 by Build4u