I'm looking to see if someone can help me remote diagnose some shooting problems my brother is having.
He's a USMC vietnam vet and was trained on the M14. He recently purchased a brand new Springfield M1A1. He says that it BS, it is an M14 . We were shooting with the stock peep sight today.
He has glasses with prisms. He was shooting all over the place while using a rest, low, over.... just everywhere. He said the rifle is sloppy, his glasses prevented him, etc, etc.
I shot it and printed a group around the bull at 50 yards.
He got frustrated and fired 5 shots at a fresh target at 50 yards off-hand with a hasty sling and put the rifle down and walked away. I looked in the spotting scope and he had scored 5 hits in the black.
Why would he shoot so poorly off of a rest, and shoot so well off hand?
I think he is way too far back off the sights, but he likes to remind me he qualified expert back in his day, so I didn't feel real good about coaching him when he was so clearly frustrated.
But, I'd like to be able to gently get him to where he is having fun next time we meet up.
He's a USMC vietnam vet and was trained on the M14. He recently purchased a brand new Springfield M1A1. He says that it BS, it is an M14 . We were shooting with the stock peep sight today.
He has glasses with prisms. He was shooting all over the place while using a rest, low, over.... just everywhere. He said the rifle is sloppy, his glasses prevented him, etc, etc.
I shot it and printed a group around the bull at 50 yards.
He got frustrated and fired 5 shots at a fresh target at 50 yards off-hand with a hasty sling and put the rifle down and walked away. I looked in the spotting scope and he had scored 5 hits in the black.
Why would he shoot so poorly off of a rest, and shoot so well off hand?
I think he is way too far back off the sights, but he likes to remind me he qualified expert back in his day, so I didn't feel real good about coaching him when he was so clearly frustrated.
But, I'd like to be able to gently get him to where he is having fun next time we meet up.