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Posted: 1/15/2012 9:52:04 PM EDT
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Hello, I just assembled an AR15 and have taken it out shooting a few times, my only problem is I think I'm looking through the scope wrong. When someone shoots it they will hit near the center of the target, but when I try I am shooting a completely different part of the target (if that makes any sense)....
Any tips or advice would be nice Thanks, -SpeedGP |
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When you look through the scope, do you see the full image - or do you see a shadowy area around the image? You may not have enough eye relief, which means your eye is too close to the scope. If you are too close to the scope objective, then the crosshairs won't be lined up properly on the target. Pull your head back a little and see if you get a better sight picture. I was at an Appleseed shoot and a woman was using her husband's scoped AR and was having a terrible time (inconsistent shot placement, no real groups). I asked her to move her head back and see if that helped and it did. That would explain others using the scope and having no issues and you using it and not being successful.
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Great advice! I'm pretty sure I'm seeing the full image, but I will still give it a try. what about laying down, how do you properly hold the rifle to increase grouping? seems like it usually grouped along a horizontal line Your sight picture (inside a scope) should not have any shadowing. For instance, when you hold the rifle still and move your head in one direction, you will see a shadow, crescent-shaped, appear in one area of the scope. You want to avoid this. A consistent eye relief (distance of your eyeball from the glass) will eliminate shadowing as long as your eye is centered on the scope, and a consistent cheek weld (putting the same part of your face on the same part of the stock) will help you repeat your correct eye relief. Horizontal stringing is usually the result of improper trigger manipulation. Slow, steady pull, reticle, reticle, reticle, bang. If you are shooting to get a small group, keep this in mind: Repeatability. Your rifle is as mechanically perfect as it can be. If you put it in a vise, it would shoot small groups. When you are holding it, you are attempting to become the vise. When your groups open up, it's because you moved the rifle or had a different sight picture. Repeatability. ETA: If this is not a problem with your optic, the question really needs to go in General AR discussion. You might also benefit from perusing the Precision Rifle forum as well, if you are going for accuracy. |
| One thing, keep your trigger finger away from the stock/rifle completely. Nothing on you trigger finger should touch but the pad of your finger on the trigger. Don't pull/squeeze the trigger, don't even think of it like that. Your brain will cause extra muscles, the ones in your thumb and in the part of your hand between the trigger finger and your thumb to move which will throw off your groups. Think press. Those muscles won't move if you use a pressing motion. Also, hold the trigger back for a second or so after the shot breaks. Then release it. |
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If your parallax is correct on the scope, then it doesn't matter what your field of view looks like. The bullets should go where the croasshairs are. Period. After you Google and read parallax, Google "Natural Point of Aim" (NPA). Read it, memorize it and PRACTICE it over and over. I got back into High Power about three years ago and proper sight picture and NPA were the two most important things I learned. I now assist coaching our 4-H Smallbore team and NPA is one of the first things we teach the kids.
As JIP suggested, shoot iron sights first. The world would be full of highly skilled shooters if everyone would master iron sights and proper shooting form prior to shooting scoped rifles. GG |
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