🔶 Instrucciones for Good Shooting Techniques

🔶 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
 
+1 for your effort brother. I’d advise you don’t think about firearms. I had to unlearn some of my firearm stuff. I’d look up artillery hold for springers (a good and practical step for accuracy). You might also try some YouTube videos. For PCPs, shoot the heaven out of whatever your target is until you got some skills. Hold your breath a moment before your shot, take the shot while exhaling, and slowly continue exhale after shot so that you maintain your zero and see where your shot placement is (don’t hold it indefinitely). You can do controlled breathing techniques to help you out too.


Good luck on your search.
 
I bet many, many books have been written on the subject. Do some reading followed up by shooting to apply what you’ve learned. Discard what doesn’t apply to you. Rinse and repeat. Of course there are specifics to certain shooting disciplines, but the basics apply. If you are implying that there aren’t enough airgun specific shooting techniques. Many posters here have shared their shooting methods. So the information is out there.
 
If I may interject may thoughts;first search yourself,google subject,many,many ideas and books on it....you may not even have to buy a book!

Most great shooters agree on technique,Read,then practice what you read,you do not have to shoot,you hold and practice..

Many times our "guns" do not fit us, have to adjust to fit....get comfortable

Learning is a process, time and practice.... great thing is to get the fundamentals down....

Do not cloud your mind,there are only a Few things to learn= your body,it is almost like you become a pet of your "gun" at first,then you learn to "turn the tables" and it becomes your "pet".....The "Gun" is an extension of you...body=control, extension,comfort,becoming one....now if you are talking a springer it becomes more like a flow,you can not control ,go with the flow....reset....reset...reset...the reset such always be the same....when you find "the way"...do not fight,your mission is to get into the flow....

Sorry,I got myself into the flow....my advice is to find out yourself by reading then practicing what you have read..it takes time=practice...only listen to "champion" and teachers advice...not something like,"it works for me"..that is a no no.....no advice is better than bad advice!
 
As some have sorta said.

You're new, just try different holds, breathing. You seem to understand the basics, use them, modify them to suit...you.

Like myself, I've shot from .22 to .458 mag. and a lot in between. But one day while shooting my first airgun (Lelya), I thought, this thing has no "kick", why hold it so tight ? So I started trying different holds, different hand placements. I found I shot...much...better...just holding the so it didn't fall out of my hands..! That is VERY lightly. Both my trigger hand AND my support hand. My support hand isn't "holding" the forend, just supporting it, no finger wrap. My trigger hand is also very light. Don't know if you've ever shot a bow (arrow), but shooting a bow , you just "barely" hold the bow so you don't influence how the bow moves and support for when you pull the string back. Just a support. I now do the same thing shooting my air rifles. Just hold the stock tight enough for good support and trigger control. There's VERY little to no kick when using a small (.177, .22, .25) caliber air rifle, so there's no reason to hang onto it like it's a .308.

Experiment, find what..YOU...like. NOT what others say that you must do. Sometimes...bad habits work better...for you..!

Mike
 
Hi

Get a low-quality airgun and scope, shoot a lot, a lot, a lot of pellet cans, breathe as you please, put your cheek as comfortable as possible, put your finger how you want and keep shooting more and more and more cans of pellets and when your groups are small, change your airgun and your scope for a better quality one and adjust it in the group center. You will save hours of reading contradictory information and you can invest your time in enjoying shooting, leave the techniques for the professionals

Regards

Enkey