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Posted: 5/12/2001 7:59:42 PM EDT
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buttstock is probably hitting higher on your shoulder than your used to, hitting a nerve or something, solution...shoot more! deaden it out!
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Posted: 5/12/2001 8:00:00 PM EDT
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When you get into position pick your right elbow up off the ground while maintaining your grip on your rifle. Raise it as far as is comfortable. This will position the butt in the "pocket" of your shoulder. It's called rolling into the rifle. I'm assuming you shoot right handed. Raise your left arm if you shoot left.
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Posted: 5/12/2001 8:02:04 PM EDT
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I'm a lefty, heh, however, I can shoot pistols either hand, both as strong, and as accurate in either!
Don't get too jealous, lol I think i'd end up breaking my collar bone before it deadend out... plus, i'm a sissy, i hate pain!!lololol |
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Posted: 5/12/2001 8:04:30 PM EDT
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LMAO dude, I shot a friends 7mm mag prone once. Once.
NSF |
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Posted: 5/12/2001 8:14:34 PM EDT
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Quoted: LMAO dude, I shot a friends 7mm mag prone once. Once. NSF Bet that hurt, lol... but we've gotta be doing something wrong.. i've seen videos where people were PRONE shooting a 50 bmg, no it wasnt a movie,, but was real.. |
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Posted: 5/12/2001 8:18:03 PM EDT
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Try what I suggested Capt. I shot an FN C1A1 for years with a steel butt plate and never hurt from recoil.
You have to hold the butt firmly in your shoulder too. It's harder for your body to absorb the recoil prone because it doesn't move like it does when your kneeling or standing. Roll into the rifle and keep a firm but not so tight grip that you start tourqueing the rifle. %æ-ß+ºí§[:)] |
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Posted: 5/12/2001 8:24:27 PM EDT
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Get your arm up and you won't hurt your collar bone. Your shoulder will still hurt though. Big bolt guns can be a pain, literally. One shot, one kill. More than that makes a nasty bruise.
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Posted: 5/12/2001 8:27:34 PM EDT
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are u holding it tight into your shoulder also try adding a recoil pad
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Posted: 5/12/2001 8:46:09 PM EDT
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haha, it has a recoil pad, and yeah, it was tight to my shoulder..
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Posted: 5/13/2001 12:39:53 AM EDT
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A couple of weeks ago I put a box through my Ruger 300 win mag prone, no butt pad. It hurt for a few days...
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Posted: 5/13/2001 12:41:23 AM EDT
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try a british 303 Carbine in the prone with the Metal buttplate -- ACK!!!
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Posted: 5/13/2001 8:54:41 AM EDT
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Captain,
Was having the same problem with a Rem 700 in .308. I was holding the rifle too high in my shoulder. I also installed a Pacmeyer Decellerator recoil pad which also helped out with the felt recoil. |
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Posted: 5/13/2001 9:25:07 AM EDT
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I don't get it. I shoot 300 Winmag prone all the time. I hate shooting it off of a bench. |
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Posted: 5/13/2001 10:27:29 AM EDT
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The shoulder isn't an issue for me. All I know is that my elbows are sore as hell after shooting about 35 rounds prone in the Garand Clinic yesterday. I was highly dissappointed in my scores. Prone was my worse position for accuracy at 200 yards. Sitting was best, followed by standing. You couldn't actaully rest the rifle on anything. The elbow bipod method didn't work out for me. I'll find a log to strecth out behind, thanks.
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Posted: 5/13/2001 12:07:58 PM EDT
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Captain, take a few hints form Highpower shooters. For your purposes, you can go cheap and use a USMC shooting coat ($40), and then buy a good quality USGI leather sling. I suggest Leslie Tam for the sling, but Turner also makes a good one. Learn to use the sling (read Jim Owen's book The Leather Sling and Shooting Positions). A sling take a LOT of the recoil out, as well as having a sock solid and tight position. Once the proper position and sling use is learned, prone should be a piece of cake. I hope Cope read this, as it'll help him too.
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Posted: 5/13/2001 12:35:50 PM EDT
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I was able to only shoot 3 rounds from a friend's .338 win mag prone, screaming obscenities after every shot. It felt like someone getting a running start and kicking me in the shoulder with steel toed boots.
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Posted: 5/13/2001 3:08:57 PM EDT
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Have you tried applying some Vagisil or perhaps Monistat 7 before, druring, and possibly after shooting? This should help with the pain...........pussy [:D]
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Posted: 5/13/2001 10:18:55 PM EDT
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prone, I take the recoil on my arm
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Posted: 5/13/2001 11:24:23 PM EDT
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TopCrest.....
You JUST became my hero for 2001.... |
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Posted: 5/14/2001 6:53:04 AM EDT
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Quoted: Have you tried applying some Vagisil or perhaps Monistat 7 before, druring, and possibly after shooting? This should help with the pain...........pussy [:D] YEAH BABY!!!!!! Nuckles. |
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