marksmanship

[Rick Mulhern]

To become a GREAT offhand/standing shooter literally takes thousands of hours of training time! Hundreds and then thousands of hours of dry firing to develop a trained reflexive action whereby when your eye sees excellent sight picture....the rifle fires...automatically! This does not come about with 30 minutes of dry firing at night at a spot on the wall; rather it comes about by as already mentioned...THOUSANDS of hours spent dry firing accompanied by untold numbers of rounds fired in actual training conditions. Ball and dummy exercises help along the way for those that have that built in reflex action to flinch....and when you get tired of poking the rifle barrel into the dirt and making an azz of yourself...you'll finally break yourself of the habit! Many years ago when I was exposed to heavily intensified marksmanship training through the USAAMU I had developed this skill about which I am talking about and I was able to shoot many 'cleans' from 200 yards during the standing phase of the NRA HP course. It's a skill that must constantly be practiced and maintained because even though one retains the 'know how' of how to do something....a long lay off is akin to starting all over! If you wish to learn how to shoot offhand....my suggestion is to buy a book by David Tubb entitled "All I know about High Power Rifle" and adhere to what he writes about! I have never known a better natural born shooter than David Tubb!