Shooting Moving Targets

I find it unnatural to try to hold a spot on the berm and wait for the target to get there (more so with the larger holding patterns of standing and kneeling) and it is even harder when there is no berm to reference off. So I dial wind and hold off letting the finger break the trigger when the sights align with my lead.
 
Personal preference is important. The nature of the match is also a factor. We shoot SR and pistol movers using an electrically operating moving target system. With an AR, I use the continuous method. Swing on the target, sight picture, fire, continue sweeping, fire the second shot. Our movers are all two shot exposures. Lead varies with the range and with the speed of the target.
 
Thanks for starting this thread Safeside ;)

As a new SR shooter, I struggled with kneeling movers every time I shot them last year. I was ambushing 1st shot, then sometimes swinging on the 2nd shot, or if I had time, I'd setup a second ambush.
Overall, a very inconsistent approach that I plan to get away from.

My focus this spring is to practice kneeling position as much as possible, which I hope gives my movers a more solid foundation. I'd like to swing on all shots, but I know I'll be tempted to ambush the longer 300m prone mover.

Too bad the OP isn't closer to the SR clinics at Borden, you get to practice movers a bit and at least establish your leads for all ranges.
 
I used to ambush/trap. Not any more. The movers in Bisley ruined me for trapping. Now i track it and swing through like with a shotgun. For exposures where two shots are needed this is a logical way to do it as the sight picture keeps up with the target. If you ambush after your first shot you are in catch up mode to get the sight picture back and get the second shot off. The leads that Flan gave are good ones, although i dont lead at all for 100m. Everything else bang on. Wind will wreak more havok here than anything else and you must be on the ball to keep on top of it. Remember if you dial wind on for a mover one way...it will magnify your problem going the other way if you dont compensate or dial it off.
 
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