Have you ever been so excited....

[223submoa]

That you pull the final shot and ruin the best group you've ever shot?

 

[MIRAMICHIER]

Really nice group.Are you using handloads ???

 

[TV-PressPass]

Hah!

That's awesome.

Both an awesome group, and a hilarious flyer (flier?)

Well done sir!

 

[tigger]

yup, ruined best groups, dropped the 25th bird on a perfect round of trap, dropped the 100th bird in handicap

done it all

concentration and lack of it are a big part of shooting, and teach rude lessons from time to time!

 

[peacefrog]

Ah Life...

 

[cdn shooter]

That's no fun when that happens, I shot an almost identical group at 300m on the weekend...four rounds into .335 then opened to an inch and and quarter with the fifth, was a second past when I should have taken another breath and refocused. Good shooting though, what rifle/combo are you using?

 

[EC]

More times than not..

 

[NormB]

That last shot can be tuff. It's the Bench Rest shooter's bane. Your 2 oz trigger seems to become much heavier for that shot.

NormB

 

[Longshot]

Mental management.

 

[maynard]

You're better off having the bullets impact somewhere else on the target out of the view of your scope. It was probably the big grin on your face that changed the cheek pressure on the stock causing that flyer.

 

[223submoa]

That last shot can be tuff. It's the Bench Rest shooter's bane. Your 2 oz trigger seems to become much heavier for that shot.

NormB

You've got that right!

 

[223submoa]

Really nice group.Are you using handloads ???

Thanks! They are handloads. It's a 223 shooting 60 grain v max with 26.3 grains of varget behind it, federal brass, federal primer, and 2.250 overall length.

 

[banskopivo]

Compared to the OP's pic, it seems I get excited and pull every shot...

Nice shootin'

 

[223submoa]

That's no fun when that happens, I shot an almost identical group at 300m on the weekend...four rounds into .335 then opened to an inch and and quarter with the fifth, was a second past when I should have taken another breath and refocused. Good shooting though, what rifle/combo are you using?

Wow, I can only hope to someday be able to shoot like that! This was basically the same thing. I got cocky and rushed the last shot. It's a remington 700 sps tactical in .223. For glass I'm running a bushnell elite 3200, with el cheapo rings and base, and I dropped the whole thing in an HS precision varminter stock. I'm shooting off a champion bi pod and a rear bag.

 

[3strokes]

Mental management.

or ............... metal management. (I checked. Lead is a metal).

 

[3strokes]

I've done the opposite. On Occasion.
My 1st shot is smack dab in the centre of the X (20 yards, handgun .22 one-handed)
and that is when I should have stopped and called it a perfect shoot. 100% in the X.

 

[dastt]

I find my nemesis is the 4th shot, usually 1,2,3,5 are where I want. Why #4? Who knows..

 

[SoBored]

Shooting a post-Hungry clinic'd M14. Guess which shot was number 5. My Bushnell Buckhorn was disgusted with me.

minus the mind fail

 

[dryfire]

Mental management.

You said it - and what's more amazing is how little attention is given to this relative other aspects of shooting and how great a role it plays.

 

[caramel]

I find that getting older is an advantage in shooting, the little lost of reflexes just make me focus harder, got a lot less flyers in the last 2 years... JP.