Aiming and Position
1. Maintain a Diary of your position, scores, etc. Develop a checklist of key position reminders in your journal or diary. These may include comments about hand position, foot position, keeping the shoulders relaxed – anything that is important for you to develop and maintain a good position. Keep updating the diary of your positions. It will be good to notice that you may have different comfortable positions in different times of the day, etc. It will help to also mention the climate/lighting/food-habits etc.
2. Get into position and tune your balance and natural point of aim so that the rifle points at the center of the target with a minimum of muscle tension. To do this close your eyes, relax, and see if the position stays stable; then open your eyes and see if the sights point at the center of the target. If balance or natural point of aim is off, adjust and repeat until this is accomplished.
3. For Aiming, the easiest way explained is like this. The rear sight has a 'V' groove. The fore sight as an 'i'. You will have to align this together - something like \i/. This \i/ should be aiming just below the target you intend to shoot. Note that the i sits in the center of the v. Also, if you would draw a line on top of the v, this line should also touch the top of the i. If the i is deep in the v groove, you will shoot low. If the i is higher than the v, you will shoot up.
4. Having said this, aim and fire, following the steps below. This will let you know where the pellet is shooting on the target. In most cases, despite having aimed well, the pellets will not shoot at the center. You will now have to adjust the sights of your rifle, which is called zeroing.
5. Always hold and aim the same way for every shot.
6. While aiming, the human eye cannot focus on three distances at one time. You can either see the rear sight in complete focus, the fore sight or the target. A good practice would be to focus on the rear sight, then the fore sight (align them well), then focus on the target (with both the aligned sights aiming at the base of the target), then get your focus back onto the fore sight and keep it there till you have shot and are finished with the follow-thru. You wont believe how much it will help. When I say 'keep your focus on the fore sight' you will still see a indistinct blurred target and fore-sight. This is the 'Shooter's picture' and is good practice.
7. Try to shoot every shot in the same amount of time. You can start by counting the seconds when you start to load, then hold, breathe in, then aim (continue slow breathing, exhale and inhale, and slowly exhale about 60% of your breath), hold your breath, re-check aim, then shoot (still holding breath) and then follow-thru (still holding breath, slowly exhaling the remaining air in the lungs), bring down rifle (Inhale again). This 'rhythm' should try and match a fixed interval of time for every shot.
8. Do not hold/aim for too long. It will weaken your hold, vision and probably result in a bad shot.
2. Get into position and tune your balance and natural point of aim so that the rifle points at the center of the target with a minimum of muscle tension. To do this close your eyes, relax, and see if the position stays stable; then open your eyes and see if the sights point at the center of the target. If balance or natural point of aim is off, adjust and repeat until this is accomplished.
3. For Aiming, the easiest way explained is like this. The rear sight has a 'V' groove. The fore sight as an 'i'. You will have to align this together - something like \i/. This \i/ should be aiming just below the target you intend to shoot. Note that the i sits in the center of the v. Also, if you would draw a line on top of the v, this line should also touch the top of the i. If the i is deep in the v groove, you will shoot low. If the i is higher than the v, you will shoot up.
4. Having said this, aim and fire, following the steps below. This will let you know where the pellet is shooting on the target. In most cases, despite having aimed well, the pellets will not shoot at the center. You will now have to adjust the sights of your rifle, which is called zeroing.
5. Always hold and aim the same way for every shot.
6. While aiming, the human eye cannot focus on three distances at one time. You can either see the rear sight in complete focus, the fore sight or the target. A good practice would be to focus on the rear sight, then the fore sight (align them well), then focus on the target (with both the aligned sights aiming at the base of the target), then get your focus back onto the fore sight and keep it there till you have shot and are finished with the follow-thru. You wont believe how much it will help. When I say 'keep your focus on the fore sight' you will still see a indistinct blurred target and fore-sight. This is the 'Shooter's picture' and is good practice.
7. Try to shoot every shot in the same amount of time. You can start by counting the seconds when you start to load, then hold, breathe in, then aim (continue slow breathing, exhale and inhale, and slowly exhale about 60% of your breath), hold your breath, re-check aim, then shoot (still holding breath) and then follow-thru (still holding breath, slowly exhaling the remaining air in the lungs), bring down rifle (Inhale again). This 'rhythm' should try and match a fixed interval of time for every shot.
8. Do not hold/aim for too long. It will weaken your hold, vision and probably result in a bad shot.
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