Has anyone ever experienced with the crosshairs moving all over your point of aim? It moves with my heart beat. I've just got that problem from a few years back. I lost weight but it shouldn't be a big change. I can still shoot ok but there should be a solution that will make me an excellent shooter. Please give me some advices. Thanks.
Shaking crosshairs
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saskcanshooter
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B. Breath control
R. Relax
A. Aim
S. Slack
S. Squeeze
Shoot in between the heart beats. I like to get into the state of relaxation similiar to the moment before you fall asleep.
R. Relax
A. Aim
S. Slack
S. Squeeze
Shoot in between the heart beats. I like to get into the state of relaxation similiar to the moment before you fall asleep.
How are you shooting? Off bags you should not touch the rifle any more ore than you need to. If it's a heavy caliber, press your shoulder in the butt, find a place that doesn't show your heartbeat. If it's a light caliber than just barely touch the butt.
Then it's all breath control, and trigger pull.
If you are not using a support at the rear things get more complicated.
Then it's all breath control, and trigger pull.
If you are not using a support at the rear things get more complicated.
Chinbullco
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That's normal to a point. Unless you're bench rested it's probably impossible to hold a gun perfectly still.
If you're just laying your gun on something, and don't have an attached bi-pod, you could try moving the rest point forward as far up the stock as you can. Then can change the fulcrum point of your rest so that your movement is less exaggerated.
For obvious reasons it's good to avoid too much coffee or energy drinks before you go shooting. You need to be very relaxed.
When I'm grouping I will even try to take it real easy. Stay relaxed, take my time walking to the target or setting up. Anything to keep my heart rate down.
You could also try finding ways to loosen up on your gun a bit so that you're not holding it so tight with your hands. One thing I like to do when using a bi-pod is position myself so that I can lean shoulder weight into the buttstock in such a way that the rubber feet on the pod kind of grab the surface I'm on, then I can relax my hold while still maintaining control of the gun.
On the bench, with just the stock rested on a block or something, grab the bottom of the buttstock with you left hand to pull it into your shoulder, a sling helps with this one, then relax the grip on your right hand. Try shooting with only the very tip of your finger on the trigger, and only your thumb on the back of the stock to counter it, turning your squeeze into more of a pinch. Mind you that technique works better with light triggers.
Also, if it's your scope, and problems with parallax, one habit I've gotten into, is once I've gotten my shot line up, I scan my eye around the the end of the scope and make note of how even the "fuzzy circle" appears to be. If I notice one side is thinner then the other, I know my eye is not perfectly lined up and correct so that the fuzzy circle appears even all around. If you don't know already, you primarily focus on your reticle.
If you're just laying your gun on something, and don't have an attached bi-pod, you could try moving the rest point forward as far up the stock as you can. Then can change the fulcrum point of your rest so that your movement is less exaggerated.
For obvious reasons it's good to avoid too much coffee or energy drinks before you go shooting. You need to be very relaxed.
When I'm grouping I will even try to take it real easy. Stay relaxed, take my time walking to the target or setting up. Anything to keep my heart rate down.
You could also try finding ways to loosen up on your gun a bit so that you're not holding it so tight with your hands. One thing I like to do when using a bi-pod is position myself so that I can lean shoulder weight into the buttstock in such a way that the rubber feet on the pod kind of grab the surface I'm on, then I can relax my hold while still maintaining control of the gun.
On the bench, with just the stock rested on a block or something, grab the bottom of the buttstock with you left hand to pull it into your shoulder, a sling helps with this one, then relax the grip on your right hand. Try shooting with only the very tip of your finger on the trigger, and only your thumb on the back of the stock to counter it, turning your squeeze into more of a pinch. Mind you that technique works better with light triggers.
Also, if it's your scope, and problems with parallax, one habit I've gotten into, is once I've gotten my shot line up, I scan my eye around the the end of the scope and make note of how even the "fuzzy circle" appears to be. If I notice one side is thinner then the other, I know my eye is not perfectly lined up and correct so that the fuzzy circle appears even all around. If you don't know already, you primarily focus on your reticle.
How exactly would that cause the crosshairs to vibrate?
To the OP. try dialing down the magnification on your scope. High magnification will exacerbate the problem. Beyond that you just have to ignor the wiggle and make the shot.
If you had a rifle benchrested so that it cannot move, then was looking thru a scope with the parallax set wrong, if you move your eye around, you'll notice the crosshair moving around over the target with your eye movements.
I'm not suggesting that it's the problem, just giving him something to think about if he doesn't know about that already.
It's one reason why cheap scopes suck, and you pay the price for good ones.
A good scope with a correct parallax for the distance you're shooting, you can move your eye around and the crosshair will stay still over the target.
Well unless the guy has torrets syndrome coupled with parkinson's and a wicked case of the whiskey shakes, I don't think an out of parallax scope is going to cause the crosshairs to shake about.
ultimate_monkey
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Many would argue that "weird" is a sugar-coated under-statement
If my cross hairs are moving around I find by the time the shot goes off with a slow squeeze the cross hairs have moved from where I wanted them. In a situation like that I pull the trigger fast when I'm the sights are where I want them. This 3 shot group (114 yards if I remember right) isn't too bad.
Between this response and the shut the truck off comment i now have to go get more coffee and clean up the keyboard.
