I enjoy shooting long range groups, but unless one can find a way to stabilize the rifle effectively, the groups become more a scattered 2" or 3" area, if your lucky. I've tried shooting with different systems including expensive commercial ones, and some I've constructed at home. After many years of searching, I've arrived at a simplistic and inexpensive way to produce consistent tight groups that I would like to share with all of you. What I do is use a large sand bag placed on my tail gate, or any good stable platform. Then I loosen the sling on my rifle enough to be pulled forward of the forearm portion of the stock a foot or so. Then I tie a nylon cord or other high memory cord, something that has little or no stretch, to the sling. At the end of the cord I tie another sand bag of about 10 lbs. and allow it to hang off the edge of my platform, but not touch the ground. I've found by doing this, it not only mimimizes the recoil, but more importantly, it pulls the rifle down onto the sand bag under the stock whcih creates a nce stabil system. Placing a small sand bag over the top of the rifle will also stabilize the rifle, but it can also change the accuracy of the weapon because of the weight on top of the barrel. So now when I want to enjoy punching paper with impresive groups I use this set up. Anyone who shoots long range targets knows just how difficult it is to make a determination of what the rifle is capable of producing. Obviously, sighting in a rifle is just as difficult to accomplish when we can't get a super stabilized set up to shoot from. So I hope this concept will provide some resolve for those of you who have grown tired of sore shoulders and iffy groups.
" When seconds count, the police are only a few minutes away "
" When seconds count, the police are only a few minutes away "
