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I think I took two bags to the range today. One had guns, ammo and targets. The second was well packed with every bad habit I could find. I started with 2 2" stick-on targets on an 8.5 X 11 sheet and was not doing as well as I wanted. I had a bunch of Shoot'nSee 1" stick on's from the 6" target sets and set up a paper with 12 of these. They seemed to force more concentration. At 10 rounds per dot, I could see a marked improvement in accuracy. They sure forced me to concentrate more on fundamentals. Didn't stop me from throwing rounds into the next county but there were fewer of them. A lot of the "misses" were in about the same place.

The key to your observation is - concentrating on the fundamentals of shooting. It's not the actual size of the target downrange, it's the size of the target in your mind.

R,
Bullseye

The target size would have to be small or there would be overflow.

I mentioned to SWMBO that my rimfire accuracy had dropped off a bit since I had increased the amount of centerfire I was shooting. She had some silly idea that the fundamentals were the same. I've been trying to come up with an explanation just to prove her wrong. Until then, I probably had better stick to the honey do list.

She's smarter than you think! Somebody must have told her about application of the fundamentals.

R,
Bullseye

She can't be that smart, she married me.

She shot on a collegiate small bore team I didn't make.

Maybe she saw you as a DIY project kit that she could shape to her own specifications.

R,
Bullseye

Don't they all? Well I have learned enough that today's snappy repartee was "Yes, dear, I'd really rather work on painting the house trim and landscaping the front yard than go shooting or fishing."

Ooooh, she has you trained real good! Well better to keep the peace than have to sleep with one eye open.

R,
Bullseye

greener wrote:She can't be that smart, she married me.
She shot on a collegiate small bore team I didn't make.

I guess this implies that you qualified for the "Big Bore" team ??

as for the target-size question, it seems you may be using some of
those 'smart bullet'... they know they're supposed to "hit the spot"
and try their best to do that... they just don't know to go to the
center of the spot... so when it is smaller.. they just do their job.

good luck with that 'Honey Do' list... --toy

toyfj40 wrote:

greener wrote:She can't be that smart, she married me.
She shot on a collegiate small bore team I didn't make.

I guess this implies that you qualified for the "Big Bore" team ??

as for the target-size question, it seems you may be using some of
those 'smart bullet'... they know they're supposed to "hit the spot"
and try their best to do that... they just don't know to go to the
center of the spot... so when it is smaller.. they just do their job.

good luck with that 'Honey Do' list... --toy

I've been called a "Big Bore" but I did shoot on the 204 mm, 155 mm, 105 mm teams

greener wrote:

toyfj40 wrote:

greener wrote:She can't be that smart, she married me.
She shot on a collegiate small bore team I didn't make.

I guess this implies that you qualified for the "Big Bore" team ??

as for the target-size question, it seems you may be using some of
those 'smart bullet'... they know they're supposed to "hit the spot"
and try their best to do that... they just don't know to go to the
center of the spot... so when it is smaller.. they just do their job.

good luck with that 'Honey Do' list... --toy

I've been called a "Big Bore" but I did shoot on the 204 mm, 155 mm, 105 mm teams

Now 204mm is definitely a bjg bore, hat is a single sht right. How many extr do you carry in your oocket?

Single shot. The extra rounds are in the truck that follows along behind.

greener wrote:Single shot. The extra rounds are in the truck that follows along behind.

Sure glad I am not paying your ammo bill, but then back when I was working and you were shooting the BIG BORE ,I was paying part of it. Wonder how much a round that figures out to be?

Back in the dark ages, about a buck a pound for ammo. The 8" nuke similator (ballistic match) was about two grand a bang. The 8" is out of the inventory. The reserve unit in Saginaw that closed down about 12 years ago was an 8" unit. My guess is the 155 rounds are approaching $300 per bang if you don't get one of the fancy ones (illumination, base-ejecting mines, depleted uranium antitank). They also shot nukes. I never saw what the ability to have a much bigger X-ring cost.