I believe I have identified an issue with my field target shooting. I was at the range today checking my dope since I recently reduced velocity a tiny bit. Nice warm day with no wind.
I was shooting the HW97 at 50 yards, seated and off the knee (WFTF style).
Here are my first 5 shots, checking the clicks and windage. Ignore the high shot, shooter error.
I'll take 4 shots touching at 50 yards from a springer any day.
Then I checked the 10 yard clicks. No issues.
Everything looked good with the dope, so I decided to shoot some more 50 yard shots. The standard targets at the club have a little blank circle in the upper middle part of the target that measures about an inch across. So I decided to see how many times I could hit the circle in a row. One. One is how many times.
Out of 8 shots, I had one clean shot in the circle. Between these two targets, I didn't get up, change pellets, get religion, lose religion, nothing. No changes. Same grip pressure, same level alignment. I didn't even get interrupted in the middle of shooting by a range master wanting to talk about Biden, motorcycles or the Gamo he used to have that would kill deer at 200 yards (happens more often than you would think).
The only logical conclusion I can come up with is that I apparently can't hit a circle. This explains a lot.
When I paint targets for the next match, I'll be drawing a little cross hair on every paddle. I'll report back after I clean the course at the next match.
Jeff, if you are reading this, I'm not really going to Sharpie a cross hair on every paddle.
Is Jeff gone? Because I am totally going to put a crosshair on every paddle in our target inventory. I'll say it's for the kids or the new shooters or something, but it's not for them. It's for me.
In all honesty, I think what happened is my old nemesis: crosshair fixation. I don't know if this is a real thing that other people struggle with, but I have to remind myself to look at the target not the crosshair. It's easy to focus on the target when I am aiming at the intersection of two fine, red lines. But when looking at a blank white circle (or a bright yellow kill zone), I don't have anything to focus on and my eyes get drawn to the crosshairs. I'm going to put a sticker on top of my turret that has a reticle inside a red circle and slash to try to remind myself to not fall into this trap.
This has been this week's episode of "Why does Scott suck". Join us next week, when we will discuss the merits of switching scopes/pellets/guns the night before a match.
I was shooting the HW97 at 50 yards, seated and off the knee (WFTF style).
Here are my first 5 shots, checking the clicks and windage. Ignore the high shot, shooter error.
I'll take 4 shots touching at 50 yards from a springer any day.
Then I checked the 10 yard clicks. No issues.
Everything looked good with the dope, so I decided to shoot some more 50 yard shots. The standard targets at the club have a little blank circle in the upper middle part of the target that measures about an inch across. So I decided to see how many times I could hit the circle in a row. One. One is how many times.
Out of 8 shots, I had one clean shot in the circle. Between these two targets, I didn't get up, change pellets, get religion, lose religion, nothing. No changes. Same grip pressure, same level alignment. I didn't even get interrupted in the middle of shooting by a range master wanting to talk about Biden, motorcycles or the Gamo he used to have that would kill deer at 200 yards (happens more often than you would think).
The only logical conclusion I can come up with is that I apparently can't hit a circle. This explains a lot.
When I paint targets for the next match, I'll be drawing a little cross hair on every paddle. I'll report back after I clean the course at the next match.
Jeff, if you are reading this, I'm not really going to Sharpie a cross hair on every paddle.
Is Jeff gone? Because I am totally going to put a crosshair on every paddle in our target inventory. I'll say it's for the kids or the new shooters or something, but it's not for them. It's for me.
In all honesty, I think what happened is my old nemesis: crosshair fixation. I don't know if this is a real thing that other people struggle with, but I have to remind myself to look at the target not the crosshair. It's easy to focus on the target when I am aiming at the intersection of two fine, red lines. But when looking at a blank white circle (or a bright yellow kill zone), I don't have anything to focus on and my eyes get drawn to the crosshairs. I'm going to put a sticker on top of my turret that has a reticle inside a red circle and slash to try to remind myself to not fall into this trap.
This has been this week's episode of "Why does Scott suck". Join us next week, when we will discuss the merits of switching scopes/pellets/guns the night before a match.
so long on iron sights(most of my life) just getting really used to scopes recently 
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