Edit: Topic was moved from original field target area to here.
Being as this is in the field target area..........when repetitive accuracy is the goal (like in ft) I've found that shooting from a table versus the position used during competition WILL change the impact points. And this has been true for all of the gun's I own, have owned, have reviewed, etc. When confirming dope or just generally practicing with my ft gun, shooting from the position I'll use during competition is mighty important.
Two brief examples:
- My USFT, when shot from a bench, is still just as accurate as when shot from Open position, but shoots to a different impact point.
- The Vet Long that I use for Extreme FT is VERY prone to vertically shifting the impact points, depending on where I put the shooting sticks under the gun. Part of my mental checklist before every trigger pull at a match is to check that I have the "V" of the shooting sticks in the right place (the middle of the pic rail installed in the forearm). During practice I found that I could shift average impact points an inch high at 75 yards (and worse out past that) by simply moving the location of the V on the bottom of the gun. Dope can be trusted, as long as the sticks are consistently placed. This gun is so fussy about this that I have to aim half a mil low when it is shot from offhand position and I've got me non trigger hand supporting the gun much further back than the sticks are placed for sitting shots.