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Shooting Traditional Firearms and Weapons => General Interest => Topic started by: Uncle Russ on September 18, 2013, 02:06:19 PM

Title: Rifle sights and shooting.
Post by: Uncle Russ on September 18, 2013, 02:06:19 PM
Having reached my so-called "Golden Years' in my mid 70's, and firing thousands upon thousands of rounds down range, I have come to the following conclusion, which I offer as "lessons learned"....

All Rifle Sights are based on the Ouija Board Principal!
This principal transfers human energy into a strong, unpredictable force, whereas the more you attempt to influence that force, the more unpredictable the shot becomes.

To prove my point, just think back to the last time you were in a shoot-off.
The harder you tried to control the "wobble factor" the worse it became.

That's my story and I stickin to it!
There is little room for doubt, so the mystery is now solved.
Brothers sse, and Two-Steps can now stop wondering about the "why" of it all, it's pretty clean cut, IMHO.

Uncle Russ...
Title: Re: Rifle sights and shooting.
Post by: doggoner on September 18, 2013, 02:50:20 PM
Amen Unk!

doggoner
Title: Re: Rifle sights and shooting.
Post by: Two Steps on September 18, 2013, 04:01:55 PM
Russ Related:
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The harder you tried to control the "wobble factor" the worse it became.

Gotta be true Russ...'cause my targets show that I try HARD all the time  :)
Title: Re: Rifle sights and shooting.
Post by: Hank in WV on September 18, 2013, 04:54:50 PM
Quote from: "Two Steps"
Russ Related:
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The harder you tried to control the "wobble factor" the worse it became.

Gotta be true Russ...'cause my targets show that I try HARD all the time  :laffing
Title: Re: Rifle sights and shooting.
Post by: gunmaker on September 18, 2013, 08:03:59 PM
Russ !! you couldn't be more wronger if'n you was standing on yer head in Australia ! Rifle's, gun's an sites ALL come under Murphy's law----Anything that can go wrong---WILL go wrong.. :Doh!      ....Tom
Title: Re: Rifle sights and shooting.
Post by: Two Steps on September 19, 2013, 09:32:35 AM
Hank Gibed:
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He ain't lying...
HEY!...Take it easy on an old Pard...
Title: Re: Rifle sights and shooting.
Post by: gunmaker on September 19, 2013, 11:06:38 AM
You know I'm only jokin'  Uncle Russ is Correct in his well thought out opinion.....Tom
Title: Re: Rifle sights and shooting.
Post by: Hanshi on September 19, 2013, 06:08:26 PM
Like many things in order to do your best you have to enter the "zone"; and that requires relaxation.  Of course you have to be able to see in the first place which is the problem with us old codgers.  :hairy
Title: Re: Rifle sights and shooting.
Post by: Buzzard on September 24, 2013, 04:24:05 PM
What's a (SIGHT)? I thought ya just pointed and pulled!
Title: Re: Rifle sights and shooting.
Post by: sse on September 25, 2013, 10:20:06 AM
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The harder you tried to control the "wobble factor" the worse it became.
So, it's the sights that make ya 'wobble'...?  I didn't know that!   :rofl
Title: Re: Rifle sights and shooting.
Post by: Captchee on October 01, 2013, 08:03:48 PM
I swear , sometimes I think Im getting palsy  or something

Last weekend I shot  my smoothbore on the very same trail as I did my rifle . Shot far better with my smoothie then my rifle .
 Rifle score I was only in the top 20 . Smoothbore I took first  with a score that would have put me in the top 10  rifle shooters . Go figure
 Its not the sights im having trouble seeing . It just seems that  as the targets get bigger  so does the spot im trying to hit .
 Now if only that blasted wind would quit blowing every time its my turn to shoot   :hairy
Title: Re: Rifle sights and shooting.
Post by: greyhunter on October 02, 2013, 09:05:40 PM
Unc Russ, to shoot a bow with skill, Bryon Ferguson, says you must "become the arrow." Well I tried that with my flinter, an' he's right, I became the bullet and sure 'nuff I'm shot.  ;)
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Post by: RobD on October 05, 2013, 09:15:48 AM
amen, uncle russ - you tellin' it like it is for sure ... ;)
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Post by: Mad Irish Jack on December 13, 2013, 09:43:37 AM
I made it to my mid 60's and feel a bit wiser :toast
Title: Re: Rifle sights and shooting.
Post by: Two Steps on December 13, 2013, 01:05:38 PM
Mad Irish Jack Demurred:
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That's m' 2 cent worth....but I aint wanten paid fer't
Not to worry MIJ...just as soon as we get the TMA slush fund built up enough to cover it, we'll try to get ya that 2cent...it's worth it.  ;)
Al