Just Fooling Around

[Frank in Fairfield]

Sometimes when shooting field target you have to shoot offhand.
Some of my fellow HFT shooters do so at the 16X limit of the allowed scope power.
Not me.
I shoot at a lower power to help lessen the wobble.
I always wondered what lowering the power of your scope does to your SFP holdovers?

To answer my question I shot a target in the garage with the TX#3 and the new HAWKE Sidewinder which only focuses to 10 yards.
Remember now I am a wobbly old curmudgeon at 79:

 

[MikeVV]

Sometimes when shooting field target you have to shoot offhand.
Some of my fellow HFT shooters do so at the 16X limit of the allowed scope power.
Not me.
I shoot at a lower power to help lessen the wobble.
I always wondered what lowering the power of your scope does to your SFP holdovers?

To answer my question I shot a target in the garage with the TX#3 and the new HAWKE Sidewinder which only focuses to 10 yards.
Remember now I am a wobbly old curmudgeon at 79:

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I applaud your non-crutch shooting.
A lifelong freehand shooter here.

Mike

 

[Chukar60]

I admire your offhand shooting as well. I find myself doing more of it all the time. Doesn’t man I am good at it, but practice makes for improvement…….
maybe

 

[rcarlisle]

Nice shooting!
My best offhand shots are made with irons (no magnification), but if I am offhanding with a scoped gun, I go as low as I can on magnification and still see the reticle clearly on the target. High magnification tends to make me overcompensate because my brain is telling me I need to move my POA more than I actually need to in order to stay on target.