Thread: The dinner plate challenge

Originally Posted by Bagheera

Here's one at 141m, sitting using a tree for a rest. Again, a shot we would expect to make but on the other hand we haven't always.

After a couple of hours pushing through scrub I decided I wasn't going to get a deer in this place.
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The paper plate is hanging from a Dracophyllum bush in the red circle.
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There was some wind from 3 O'Clock but at that range it wouldn't make much difference. Actually, at the target it was drifting the other way, possibly a bit of a ridge top rotor.

Here's how I set up for the shot, gripping the small tree with a few fingers and holding the foreend out from it with a couple of others so the scope and stock wouldn't make contact. Not a 100% steady hold but good enough for the 21cm plate.
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Here's where it fell.
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For a right handed shooter try the rifle on the right of the tree with the back of the left wrist loaded against the tree

Originally Posted by Moa Hunter

For a right handed shooter try the rifle on the right of the tree with the back of the left wrist loaded against the tree

Yes, thats what I tried first too. There was something wrong - maybe a branch got in the way of the scope.

There are a variety of ways to splay your hand and fingers over round or flat surfaces from either side which we should practice.
I like to contact both the surface and the stock with the soft surface of my fingers/ hand rather than resting the bony back of the hand / wrist if I can manage it. But you have to be adaptable.