Instructions/ Tutorials for Good Shooting Techniques
So, I got into this AG hobby dipping my toe into the water. But before I knew what had happened I was wading through it with the water up to my chin....!
I have been reading and learning a lot about the equipment.
BUT....
I have been very weak on the most fundamental issue of shooting — the fundamentals of marksmanship, as some seem to call them.
(Female shooters of course will be using the fundamentals of markswomanship.)
So, maybe you could point me toward some well-informed and practical instructions or tutorials that will help me learn to shoot well.
I'm thinking of topics like the following:
▪How to breathe — and when to pull the trigger
▪How to pull the trigger
▪How important is cheek weld really for a PCP with a scope? (I suspect that this varies from instructions for PB with open sights....)
▪How to hold the gun in general. In different positions (free standing, or supported by a tree, prone, etc.).
▪Specifically, where do I put the buttstock of a bullpup — and is that really important since a PCP has very little recoil?
▪What is the really the issue with parallax — if I have a scope where I can adjust the parallax.
I have searched for these instructions — and have found much....
However, that "much" seems to be geared to firearms, open sights, scopes without parallax adjustment, or subjugated to particular competition rules and setups....
And I suspect, much of the instruction is given by people (and for people) who already have firmly ingrained "firearm habits" — and it tries to just follow those habits. ➔ I personally have no significant firearm habits that I would have to unlearn, so I rather shoot a PCP like a PCP and not like a high-recoil rifle....
Also, to me coming from the outside it seems like the instructions tries to be so generic as to cover all kinds of guns — whereas (I think!) PCPs are quite different in some important aspects than firearms or springers.
Type of shooting:
▪PCP bullpup and PCP rifle
▪For hunting (from quick short-range shots on a stalk — to medium range — to 100y-long range)
▪and for informal target shooting
▪My shots would be often with some kind of support (rock+backpack, tripod, sometimes front and rear bags). But I also need to learn offhand bullpup shooting.
So, help me out of my ignorance, plz . If we get a good turnout, I might even do a post with a collection of the best links, categorized and annotated.
Matthias
So, I got into this AG hobby dipping my toe into the water. But before I knew what had happened I was wading through it with the water up to my chin....!
I have been reading and learning a lot about the equipment.
BUT....
I have been very weak on the most fundamental issue of shooting — the fundamentals of marksmanship, as some seem to call them.
(Female shooters of course will be using the fundamentals of markswomanship.)
So, maybe you could point me toward some well-informed and practical instructions or tutorials that will help me learn to shoot well.
I'm thinking of topics like the following:
▪How to breathe — and when to pull the trigger
▪How to pull the trigger
▪How important is cheek weld really for a PCP with a scope? (I suspect that this varies from instructions for PB with open sights....)
▪How to hold the gun in general. In different positions (free standing, or supported by a tree, prone, etc.).
▪Specifically, where do I put the buttstock of a bullpup — and is that really important since a PCP has very little recoil?
▪What is the really the issue with parallax — if I have a scope where I can adjust the parallax.
I have searched for these instructions — and have found much....
However, that "much" seems to be geared to firearms, open sights, scopes without parallax adjustment, or subjugated to particular competition rules and setups....
And I suspect, much of the instruction is given by people (and for people) who already have firmly ingrained "firearm habits" — and it tries to just follow those habits. ➔ I personally have no significant firearm habits that I would have to unlearn, so I rather shoot a PCP like a PCP and not like a high-recoil rifle....
Also, to me coming from the outside it seems like the instructions tries to be so generic as to cover all kinds of guns — whereas (I think!) PCPs are quite different in some important aspects than firearms or springers.
Type of shooting:
▪PCP bullpup and PCP rifle
▪For hunting (from quick short-range shots on a stalk — to medium range — to 100y-long range)
▪and for informal target shooting
▪My shots would be often with some kind of support (rock+backpack, tripod, sometimes front and rear bags). But I also need to learn offhand bullpup shooting.
So, help me out of my ignorance, plz . If we get a good turnout, I might even do a post with a collection of the best links, categorized and annotated.
Matthias