Aim Hold and Followthrough

Objective: To help shooters become aware of the triggering and recoil

Skill level: Everyone

Time: whatever it takes!

Background
Unlike many sports indoor shooting is almost totally under the control of the shooter.

It is (s)he who decides when to pull the trigger.

Discounting any variabilites in ammunition the success or failure of a shot to reach the bull is entirely in the control of the shooter.

Technique
The ability to understand your technique - the strengths and weaknesses - is a major goal in understanding why some shots are good and others are less so.

Start by evaluating your control over-

Aim - getting the target in the middle of the sight picture
Hold - keeping the rifle steady before and during the trigger squeeze
Recoil - seeing of the rifle returns to the middle of the target once the rifle has finished recoil

Aim is usually the easiest to see, the trouble is that as you pull the trigger everything happens so fast. You have become aware of every slight movement, then teach yourself to wait until the rifle settles back after the shot. You should note in a table how every shot behaved.

Rate each of the above between 0 (terrible) to 10 (could not be better), but dont try to fool anyone by coming out with all 10's in the table - unless you are getting all 10's on the card!

The purpose of the table is to show youself and others how you are shooting and to help in deciding what you should do to try to improve the basics of your shooting.

Think about -

was that aim really in the middle of the font sight, or just "good enough"?
did the picture remain stable as you squeezed the trigger?
when the shot finished did the rifle return to the original point, use arrows to note what happened.

Shot	Aim	Hold	Recoil	Shot	Aim	Hold	Recoil
1				6
2				7
3				8
4				9
5				10