Thread: Smallbore shooting

WallyR - dead right about position and treating each shot as an individual (plus excluding from your brain the value of the last shot if it was a bummer). Once I was shooting reasonably well I used to lose most of my points on the top right hand target - totally a postion issue. Except it progressed to the point where it got to be a mental issue when I reached that target and expected to drop a point. Took a lot of me working on me to overcome that. At least at tyro level tyros haven't got to the point of putting crazy pressure on themselves. Also saw a lot of shooters have problems with their last target - again, a mental issue. There are also various theories around about what is the best way to go around your target, once sighters completed, in order to minimise the effects of positional changes. Shooting off a rest still needs position care, no different to shooting with a sling otherwise the shots will be "muscled" over.