I wanted to run something by everybody here. I have been shooting some "house rules" F-class matches for the last year or so. It's been an excellent journey, where I'm learning a lot, and unlearning much of what I had found on the Internet .
Anyway, today I was shooting some groups at 100yds while a buddy was sighting in his deer rifle. I'm shooting an AR-15 chambered in 6.8SPCII. I normally shoot 1-1.5MOA -- my record group so far with this config was about 0.9 MOA. I wanted to use up all of my loaded ammo so I can keep all the cases at the same reload-count, so I decided to do something I've never done: I did the following 8-shot group in rapid fire:
Mind you, this was something like one shot every 1-2 seconds. Instead of my usual "hold, breathe, wait for trigger to break" routine, I went with "draw crosshair on target, press trigger when it looks about right." I was floored! I hit a 0.73MOA 8-shot target! (that hole to the lower left is part of a sighter group from half an hour earlier)
So what happened? I was wondering if maybe I'm psyching myself out on the slow-fire routine. Does it make sense that I might be fatiguing while I do the "slow press" on the trigger? I'm using a RRA national match 2-stage, and sometimes it takes what feels unbearably long for the trigger to break. I MUST be doing something when firing slowly that messes me up.
Can you help me diagnose it?
Anyway, today I was shooting some groups at 100yds while a buddy was sighting in his deer rifle. I'm shooting an AR-15 chambered in 6.8SPCII. I normally shoot 1-1.5MOA -- my record group so far with this config was about 0.9 MOA. I wanted to use up all of my loaded ammo so I can keep all the cases at the same reload-count, so I decided to do something I've never done: I did the following 8-shot group in rapid fire:
Mind you, this was something like one shot every 1-2 seconds. Instead of my usual "hold, breathe, wait for trigger to break" routine, I went with "draw crosshair on target, press trigger when it looks about right." I was floored! I hit a 0.73MOA 8-shot target! (that hole to the lower left is part of a sighter group from half an hour earlier)
So what happened? I was wondering if maybe I'm psyching myself out on the slow-fire routine. Does it make sense that I might be fatiguing while I do the "slow press" on the trigger? I'm using a RRA national match 2-stage, and sometimes it takes what feels unbearably long for the trigger to break. I MUST be doing something when firing slowly that messes me up.
Can you help me diagnose it?