Off hand iron sight shooting all to the left..What am i doing?

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Hey guys,
I was shooting M1 Garand for the first time at 100m today. resting on my elbows on a table the group was 6 in about 4-5" and 2 more on the out side of the paper. This supprised me because I haver never shot iron sights before. However when I shot standing the first one was 1-1/2" from the bull but the rest were about 10" left but the right height. What happened?
 
czscotia said:
Hey guys,
I was shooting M1 Garand for the first time at 100m today. resting on my elbows on a table the group was 6 in about 4-5" and 2 more on the out side of the paper. This supprised me because I haver never shot iron sights before. However when I shot standing the first one was 1-1/2" from the bull but the rest were about 10" left but the right height. What happened?
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At the risk of stating the obvoius, it's something off about your off-hand technique. Get someone else to watch when you shoot. They may see what you are doing.
 
Okay, I'm here fer ya!

Something (your spine maybe) is pulling your barrel/rifle/stock over to the left so that after the trigger is snapped/released/broken the bullet is FLUNG over to the left side. :eek:

No worries. Time to do some dry firing at the screw (I painted it black with a felt marker) in a light switch (room in the basement). Or put up a playing card (2 of spades? 2 of clubs?) on the wall with some masking tape and dry fire. Repeat this mantra while holding the blade of your front sight either just below or dead center, your choice)....

"Sight picture, Sight picture, sight picture" Then begin your slow squeeze. Do this over a thousand times, or maybe during a Leafs game since (flame suit ON) you might not be missing much.. but, hey, the Leafs shut out Montreal 2-0 last Thursday night :eek:

After dry firing a few hundred times, you will surprise yourself at the range when you place the front sight blade below or on your target and the rifle suddenly goes, "BOOM!" :D

That's a technique we poorer Service Rifle shooters practice when we cannot afford lots and lots of ball ammo! :nest:

Get back to me/us and let us/me know how this suggestion works out. I know it cured my 200 yard off hand position shooting in NRA High Power Matches! :dancingbanana:

Cheers,
Barney
 
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Finally got back to the range and off hand at 100 I was able to keep 8 shots on a piece of paper -about as big as your hand with fingers spread out, so way better than off to the left like last time. This time I tried to slowly squeez instead of pulling the trigger.
 
I had this problem as well back when I started hunting. Had done loads of bench shooting and fun shooting but no serious offhand practice.
I found I always seemed to get the bulls on the bench, the 3 inches to right as soon as I stood up hehehe.
For me it was a posture adjustment and mostly paying close attention to my trigger finger. As I squeezed the trigger I found my trigger hand was causing the problem. Lots of dry firing just like hungry suggests and paying slose attention to detail during trigger pull and now I'm a pretty good crack shot with irons inside 100/150 and the practice showed benefit on the bench rest as well.
 
Check to make sure which is your dominate eye. Though errors tend to be larger than described when this happens.
 
A sling doesn't hurt either. That's you know who coaching me.

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