nominal moa

[John Kepler]

New to shooting, I am not... New to High Power shooting... I DEFINITELY am!!! I do know what you mean by "spot-weld" though. This is a relatively new skill for me. I still have much practice to do before I'm almost perfect...

And that's where the fun is!

However, having said that, with nothing pejorative intended....simply stating a fact, little of what you have learned to date will do much for you in Highpower, and a better mind-set going into this is "I know nothing!", because basically, that's a pretty accurate statement-of-fact at this stage of the game (other than some basic trigger-control and possibly some position skills out of smallbore, nothing from pistol or smallbore helps you much in HP...ask me how I know!).

It's always tough in the beginning because, frankly, some of the "skill-set" you need to develop is counter-intuitive...meaning that to do the "full-Monty", it really requires a teacher/coach ("self-taught" marksmanship is in the same category as "self-taught" brain surgery!) Also, there's practice....and then there's "practice"...it has to be right to be beneficial....endless repetition of "2+2=5" isn't going to help your arithmetic skills, and it's certainly not going to teach you differential calculus! I suspect you're still shooting off a bag....eventually you'll have to/want to move up to a shooting sling and into position shooting which is where the REAL fun is at!

Imagine the fun you can have shooting that very same rifle for score at 1000 yds! It's "do-able"!