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Author Topic: Rifle sights and shooting.  (Read 1038 times)

Offline Uncle Russ

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Rifle sights and shooting.
« 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.

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Re: Rifle sights and shooting.
« Reply #1 on: September 18, 2013, 02:50:20 PM »
Amen Unk!

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Re: Rifle sights and shooting.
« Reply #2 on: September 18, 2013, 04:01:55 PM »
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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  :)
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Re: Rifle sights and shooting.
« Reply #3 on: September 18, 2013, 04:54:50 PM »
Quote from: "Two Steps"
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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
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Re: Rifle sights and shooting.
« Reply #4 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
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Re: Rifle sights and shooting.
« Reply #5 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...
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Re: Rifle sights and shooting.
« Reply #6 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
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Re: Rifle sights and shooting.
« Reply #7 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
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Re: Rifle sights and shooting.
« Reply #8 on: September 24, 2013, 04:24:05 PM »
What's a (SIGHT)? I thought ya just pointed and pulled!
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Re: Rifle sights and shooting.
« Reply #9 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
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Re: Rifle sights and shooting.
« Reply #10 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

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Re: Rifle sights and shooting.
« Reply #11 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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Re: Rifle sights and shooting.
« Reply #12 on: October 05, 2013, 09:15:48 AM »
amen, uncle russ - you tellin' it like it is for sure ... ;)

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Re: Rifle sights and shooting.
« Reply #13 on: December 13, 2013, 09:43:37 AM »
I made it to my mid 60's and feel a bit wiser :toast
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Re: Rifle sights and shooting.
« Reply #14 on: December 13, 2013, 01:05:38 PM »
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