Thread: Shooting with bipod spikes

Originally Posted by Tentman

Always try and ensure your right hand (shooting right handed) is relaxed and not tight, if you are fighting thd rifle with a right hand grip you'll never achieve consistency (bipod loaded or not). I RO a lot and its the one suggestion that seems to make a big difference after a shooter starts to understand "natural point of aim".

Not sure what exactly you are referring to here but there are a lot of people who will pull the rifle directly into their should to help with recoil management.
You don't want have a death grip as yes you'll be prone to pulling shots if you are inconsistent but putting direct rearward pressure shouldn't be detrimental.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zhaa...nel=SHLowlight
This is what I am attempting to say in words.
Admittedly having a more vertical grip (or pistol grip) makes this much easier to visualise/implement but you can do it with a more traditional hunting grip too.

To the OP.
Most people discover it is much easier to shoot a heavy rifle accurately as they tend to absorb all the small movements you excert from your body meaning the rifle tends to just sit where you place it, whereas lightweight rifles move around all over the place. Using the method in the first vido about loading the bipod and building a bridge, plus having some rearward pressure can do a lot to stabalize the rifle rather than just float around on the bipod.
You can get away with a more free recoiling type setup if you have some decent sand bags, but a bipod is far less forgiving.

Natural point of aim is without the most important thing with regards to repeatable accuracy.
Shooting small bore or full bore NRA (sling and jacket shooting) will reinforce NPA pretty damn quickly, muscling the rifle onto target is not conducive to repeatable accuracy.
Heres video that talks about NPA.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiRE...nel=SHLowlight

Frank Galli isn't the be all end all but he does have a bunch of videos talking about what he calls the fundamentals, there is definitely some good info in his videos.