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TARGET RIFLE BASICS: WINDS OF CHANGE
CHRIS WHITE advises that making allowances for wind can improve your score - but experience is key to becoming an effective wind reader Any experienced Target Rifle shooter will realise that in most cases matches are won or lost not merely by one's ability (or ... Read Full Article
TARGET RIFLE BASICS: SIGHTS SET ON PERFECTION
CHRIS WHITE explains the importance of sighters and how to use them to best advantage NOW WE understand the theory of grouping it ought to be obvious that two shots may or may not be representative of what is to follow. Since this is what we are stuck with under ... Read Full Article
TARGET RIFLE BASICS PART TWO: SEARCHING FOR THE ONE
This month CHRIS WHITE explains the perils of issue ammo and why experience is key in gauging wind LAST MONTH we looked at why rifles shoot groups and do not put all the shots through one hole. We touched on the importance of finding the centre of the group and ... Read Full Article
TARGET RIFLE BASICS PART ONE: SEARCHING FOR THE ONE
CHRIS WHITE looks at the myth of the one-hole group, the concept behind groups, and how to make them smaller ONCE AGAIN we reach a point where there is a difference between smallbore rifle shooting and Target Rifle. When I was at school I was taught that ... Read Full Article
TARGET RIFLE BASICS PART THREE: TELL THEM WHAT YOU HAVE TOLD THEM
CHRIS WHITE explains why you don't need to have perfect eyesight to shoot well LAST MONTH we reminded ourselves of the importance of focusing on the foresight and not the target, and I promised a story to illustrate this point. Some years ago the BBC invited ... Read Full Article
TARGET RIFLE BASICS PART TWO: TELL THEM WHAT YOU HAVE TOLD THEM
CHRIS WHITE highlights the importance of alignment and head position for TR shooters In the August issue we reminded ourselves of how the sling takes the weight of the rifle (Target Rifle Basics, p.65). Correct use of the sling is fundamental to successful shooting. ... Read Full Article
TARGET RIFLE BASICS: UNRESOLVED ISSUES
CHRIS WHITE attended the 2008 NRA Imperial Meeting - and found that some problems arose ZAINAL ABIDIN Md Zain of Malaysia took the Queen's this year with a well-deserved 294 and 36 Vs ex-300, two Vs ahead of Jane Messer and Paul Kent. However, the Imperial Meeting ... Read Full Article
TARGET RIFLE BASICS: TELL THEM WHAT YOU HAVE TOLD THEM
CHRIS WHITE sums up the basics of TR shooting that we should all remember SHORTLY AFTER completing my stint as a graduate trainee and just into my first managerial appointment the company sent me on a supervisors' course. One of the instructors outlined the classic ... Read Full Article
TARGET RIFLE BASICS: A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD?
CHRIS WHITE has some advice on cant for TR shooters THROUGHOUT THIS series we have looked at similarities and differences between smallbore and fullbore shooting. Some of these differences are insignificant but we now come onto an area in which there is a major ... Read Full Article
TARGET RIFLE BASICS: ZERO THE HERO
CHRIS WHITE tackles a thorny issue for many shooters, especially, dare he say it, smallbore ones IN THIS third instalment on the thorny subject of zeroing, we come to what is perhaps the trickiest of all to grasp: zeroing the windage. For many TR shooters this ... Read Full Article
TARGET RIFLE BASICS: POSTIVELY NEGATIVE
CHRIS WHITE clears up the mystery of foresight adjustment HOW DID you get on with last month's little test? Could you read the sight setting in Figure 1? The correct answer is minus three. Because this figure is a negative value we need to read the vernier backwards. ... Read Full Article
TARGET RIFLE BASICS: ABSOLUTE ZERO
CHRIS WHITE says zeroing may not be as easy as you think MOST RIFLE shooters have some understanding of the concept of zeroing so generally expect it to be straightforward. In terms of establishing an elevation zero it is; wind zero, however, is more complicated. ... Read Full Article
TARGET RIFLE BASICS: SAFETY FIRST
CHRIS WHITE reminds us of the importance of safety, with a few cautionary tales, for the start of the season For those TR shooters who spend the winter months hibernating, it's now time to make plans for the new shooting season, which is almost here. So let's ... Read Full Article
TARGET RIFLE BASICS: READING THE VERNIER
CHRIS WHITE gives a simple guide to the Vernier scale AFTER THE last session, you should be able to set your sights to five minutes or any multiple of five, 10, 15 or 30, for example. How do we set the sight to a number that is between a five-minute increment, ... Read Full Article
TARGET RIFLE BASICS: REARSIGHT FUNCTION
CHRIS WHITE explains the basics of rearside function, including how to zero the rifle WITHOUT GETTING too much into ballistic theory, we need to appreciate that as soon as the bullet leaves the end of our rifle barrel gravity pulls it toward the earth. If our ... Read Full Article
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