TargetTalk

A little update. I actually ended upp with all three things that Guy mentioned to tighten up my position. I did it in steps with moving the handstop about 5mm forward first, it got a little better but not good. I then adjusted the top part of the buttplate and it got a little better but when I did t...

Guy, I will check the upper part of the buttplate first because that was something that crossed my mind earlier and it sounds like a possible problem for me. I recently got my new shooting clothes and therefore the feeling have changed in all position and I've been forced to do some tweaking on the ...

Okay I think there is some problems with my english skills and therefore there have been a little missunderstanding here. The shots that did produce good tens (inner ten) all had the recoil ending a little high. This was the majority of shots. The shots that did go into a bad ten(less than 10,3) and...

The feeling was the same on all shots but that doesn't mean that the relaxation was the same. Maybe I wasn't feeling the difference.

The thing is that the last 10 shots where really tight with 7x and 5 of them 10,5 but it doesn't feel like it's possible to go the whole way in prone if the recoil isn't perfect. I have thought of that it is something that gives in the shoulders and therefore makes the rifle point higher after the s...

I have an issue when I shoot prone. I check my NPA and is completely relaxed and when I shoot the recoil goes straight up and goes straight down but it stops a little above where I was aiming before the shoot. This is pretty consistent. Last night I finished my prone training with 20 shots where I f...

I did the test again with even better support and testing with the lights I normally use and total darkness.

The L-value is around 20 and it doesn't matter if I got the lights on or not.

Yesterday I did a test putting my rifle on sandbags and pointing it to the target. The L-value was between 40,x-41. I put a big cardoard box at half the distance to the target but that just changed the point of impact.

I must do some more testing today with and without any lights in the rooms.

IVX8, Do I understand it correctly that you shoot 14 competitions per year? How do you think about the monthly competitions? Do you want to shoot top scores or do you use them for training some specific skill? I had two competitions this weekend that has been and on the first that was airrifle 40 sh...

Shoot a lot of matches! One a week is fine...just make most of them training matches, or working matches. You learn a lot more in a match setting than you do at "home" You cant be "up" for a match a week, but shoot them if they are available and remove shooting matches from out ...

No, I don't own that book. I have Ways of the rifle but in that book the information about this subject is very limited. I have a loose plan for 2013 and that plan will have as you say core training to april and then I start towards competition training because I have a competition in end of april t...

I don't know if I'm trying to overdo it like I use to do with everything but I don't find enough information so that I feel that my plan is right and optimal. I understand that the year should be divided in different parts but what should I do during these different parts? In RobStubbs example of di...

I've searched the internet much about how to make a yearly plan on my traing and how to plan individual training sessions. I haven't found anything useful regarding this. So the questions that I have is: How should I periodize my training over the year? How should the training sessions be planned, d...

Yes it's a major investment for me too. It was the extended "lifetime" of the suit that got me interested in the first place, otherwise I would go with the regular super. I have no possibility to check up on the material without going on a long trip and that too costs money. I think I go w...

I shoot in temperatures from early in the season around 0 degrees celsius and in the summer up to 25-30 degrees celsius. From september to may I shoot indoors and the temperature is around 20 degrees celsius. I don't like heat so much. Shooting in temperatures above 20 degrees is a sweaty business f...

jgrinolds,
Thank you very much for a good answer. One follow up question though, is it any warmer in a suit with Proliner than with canvas?

In Sweden we are going to have a 4 year transition period to the clothing rules. The other rules adopts next year. I don't compete internationally yet so I should not have any problem in 4 years. The only thing on these clothes that could violate any rule is the seam on the left side and that depend...

I'm going to buy new shooting clothes and I got interested in Monards Super Extended suit. Why I thinking of buying just that set of clothes is because they are cheaper than Kurt Thune and Monard says that the clothes should hold for up to 20 years with my amount of use. So does anybody have any opi...

Here's two example files when I have had training sessions with the SCATT. The second one is how it looks like for the most of the time and the first is when it did go really well.

How much does a perfect fitting jacket help in prone, I'm thinking about how it affects hold and also the consitency of the position during say a 60 shot match. My jacket doesn't fit me so it's easy to get the left sleeve sliding down the left arm and I don't feel that I get any support across the s...