Um...Finally
Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2014 12:26 pm
After two and a half years of first touching a pistol (or 27 months since touching a firearm of ANY sort), yesterday (veterans day) I finally officially picked up a borrowed a 10/22 rifle and learned how to shoot it. Three hours, four positions and 400 rounds later, I found it fascinating. While I toyed with an air rifle for the sake of helping me shoot a match crossbow, shooting a rifle (.22lr) is quite different. I also confirmed that I am indeed a leftie (cross sighted). Dr Norman Wong was not joking when he said no matter how he made my right eye lens, my right eye (though it is the master) will never be as good as my left.
I don't know whether this is embarrassment or something to be proud. I still need to learn how to do sitting and bench rest, plus the use of a sling. I discovered that I loved the kneeing position. For the first two hours I completely missed the target. Then I realized I need to completely forget about my pistol training, especially how to form the sight picture and where to aim, and suddenly it clicked. Nothing spectacular, 50 feet with all shots landed sightly larger than the size of a Susan B Anthony.
I do have to admit, pistol is A LOT HARDER. The experienced guys on this board were not joking. Indeed my error on trigger control magnified the results, and adjustment on the trigger control created a tight group.
My uniform consists of a $50 1980s Sauer Jacket, and a $40 no name 40 years old shooting boots got it from Romania. Regular glasses (non bifocal) that I wear every day. A cheap blinder for my right eye that clip on my regular glasses. Ear plugs (with almost 24 piercings headset is now impossible for me to use). Total cost is somewhere around $120. Half way I did not even need the jacket anymore. The mat was pretty beaten up so on prone my elbows were on the hard floor. Many thanks to my instructor. Now I need to translate this iron sight technique into my air rifle, which in turns need to translate into 10M armbrust.
Being a leftie does have a learning advantage in which I can minic anyone as if it were a mirror.
Oh, thank you for the guys in the rifle forum, the advice over the past year helped!
Of course, nothing can UN-compress better than training a CFP match on my own afterwards. It was a blast. one particular bullet went through the Bulls and cut the string that holds the targets in half..that will NEVER happen to a .22lr...LOL.
I don't know whether this is embarrassment or something to be proud. I still need to learn how to do sitting and bench rest, plus the use of a sling. I discovered that I loved the kneeing position. For the first two hours I completely missed the target. Then I realized I need to completely forget about my pistol training, especially how to form the sight picture and where to aim, and suddenly it clicked. Nothing spectacular, 50 feet with all shots landed sightly larger than the size of a Susan B Anthony.
I do have to admit, pistol is A LOT HARDER. The experienced guys on this board were not joking. Indeed my error on trigger control magnified the results, and adjustment on the trigger control created a tight group.
My uniform consists of a $50 1980s Sauer Jacket, and a $40 no name 40 years old shooting boots got it from Romania. Regular glasses (non bifocal) that I wear every day. A cheap blinder for my right eye that clip on my regular glasses. Ear plugs (with almost 24 piercings headset is now impossible for me to use). Total cost is somewhere around $120. Half way I did not even need the jacket anymore. The mat was pretty beaten up so on prone my elbows were on the hard floor. Many thanks to my instructor. Now I need to translate this iron sight technique into my air rifle, which in turns need to translate into 10M armbrust.
Being a leftie does have a learning advantage in which I can minic anyone as if it were a mirror.
Oh, thank you for the guys in the rifle forum, the advice over the past year helped!
Of course, nothing can UN-compress better than training a CFP match on my own afterwards. It was a blast. one particular bullet went through the Bulls and cut the string that holds the targets in half..that will NEVER happen to a .22lr...LOL.