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Be happy now you do not have to take up golf.
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04-24-2012 03:46 PM
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Go over to the Knowledge Library
and download a copy of 'Shoot to Live'. It will help explain some of the mechanics behind it and it also gives some ways to practice.
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Originally Posted by
Cdn303
Go over to the
Knowledge Library and download a copy of 'Shoot to Live'. It will help explain some of the mechanics behind it and it also gives some ways to practice.
This book should be reprinted and become required reading for all new rifle shooters.
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I agree wholeheartedly as to "Shoot To Live!". It is without doubt the best book ever written on shooting with the Number 4 Rifle.
When we were learning trigger control, there was an exercise we did, sometimes for a quarter-hour at a time. It takes 2 people.
What we did was place a 10-cent coin (US dime is the same size, as your old silver 50-Cmes if you can find one) across the front-sight HOOD of the rifle and dry-fire it like that. If the coin drops, you are doing something wrong. If the coin drops only AFTER the firing-pin goes forward, you are doing it right. With practice, you can actually get to a point at which you can dry-fire the rifle.... and the coin does not even drop.
It's a nuisance, but it is also a very good exercise to help you gain CONTROL of the trigger.
Hope this helps.
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Good advice for dry fire practice smellie. We used US dimes on the barrels of the M16A1 rifle during basic rifle marksmanship training at Fort Benning when I was there in the early 1980's. We practiced this in the prone indoors on the old barracks floors at Harmony Church. It'll teach you not to jerk the trigger for sure.
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Talking of which, when we were training on the Mobat and Wombat recoilless anti-tank guns, we were told that they were soooooo super smooth that you could stand a two shilling piece on the breech while it fired and it'd remain there. It was absolutely correct! But only partly................ You COULD stand a 2/- piece on the breech ring while it fired - but it wouldn't be there afterwards. Mind you, the old target tank would still be there because the rounds inevitably went, well......., anywhere!
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