Elric
Well-Known Member
Finally worked line safety at the local rifle club. For it seems forever my Dad would get his zeroing done a few weeks before deer season... Anyways, most folks are sensible with weapons handling, didn't see much of anything that was dangerous.
The biggest problem was folks not using the sand bags correctly. About a third didn't use a rear bag under the buttstock at all, some had their barrel or mag tube on the bag, and the seats were sometimes too high, so they would stack four sand bags on the wood stand. That made supporting the buttstock very difficult. And... the darned forend swivel was still connected...
I had one young man, "group" was ten inches wide... Dropped the seat, supported the buttstock, dropped the front swivel, adjusted the front sandbags, and waa-laa, inch and a half... Hardest part for me was taking care of those very simple issues, which I hadn't done in over twenty years, so I wasn't looking for them... Overall, not bad. A few folks CAN shoot with just the front stand plus a sand bag or two, and NO rear bags.
If folks would use the swivel attatchment where the "T" actually fits inside the stock, there would be a lot less difficulty...
The biggest problem was folks not using the sand bags correctly. About a third didn't use a rear bag under the buttstock at all, some had their barrel or mag tube on the bag, and the seats were sometimes too high, so they would stack four sand bags on the wood stand. That made supporting the buttstock very difficult. And... the darned forend swivel was still connected...
I had one young man, "group" was ten inches wide... Dropped the seat, supported the buttstock, dropped the front swivel, adjusted the front sandbags, and waa-laa, inch and a half... Hardest part for me was taking care of those very simple issues, which I hadn't done in over twenty years, so I wasn't looking for them... Overall, not bad. A few folks CAN shoot with just the front stand plus a sand bag or two, and NO rear bags.
If folks would use the swivel attatchment where the "T" actually fits inside the stock, there would be a lot less difficulty...
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