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Sighting/Target Shooting...

B_McB_Mc Member Posts: 794 ✭✭✭✭
edited February 2008 in Ask the Experts
Do any of you guys sight your rifles or just shoot from just a simple rest?? I am talking about just resting the front of the stock on something.
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  • Laredo LeftyLaredo Lefty Member Posts: 13,451 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    By "sight your rifle".... do you mean from a ransom type rest?

    Most hunters and competition shooters sight in their rifles at a bench rest, sandbag or similar surface since thats the way they will likely be deployed in the field.

    Thats the way I do mine. As far as distances, I will zero at the ranges I expect to be shooting at and for a particular cartridge.

    I prefer to sight in holding the gun the same way I will be shooting it in the field, that way the recoil movement will be the same. If the gun is in a rigid rest, the recoil characteristics are different.
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  • swearengineswearengine Member Posts: 1,308 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I will sight in from a bench rest. But then I practice from field positions and change the sights to zero from them. The bench rest, unless you are a competitor in the bench rest dicipline, is really only to get you in the general area of the bullseye. Shooting from field positions changes point-of-impact and as a hunter, that is where I need to be zeroed from.
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