Has anyone ever gotten bad groups from holding the rifle too firmly. I ask this because yesterday my brother and I went shooting. my shooting technique is that I rest the gun on sandbags. front bag being right in front of forward action screw with enough room for the hand the grip the front rail. the rear bag as far back as possible without touching my shoulder. I pull the gun with both hands very firmly into the "sweet spot" between my collar bone and rotator cuff. I don't have a flinch. im not scared of the recoil. I can control my breathing very well. but my bullet groups look like buckshot. maybe a 4 inch group. my brother takes the same rifle. puts very little pressure on the rifle. rests his hand on the front of the scope. and shoots 1/2 inch groups all day long. I do notice that when I shoot, the front of the gun wants to pop up a considerable amount. maybe its due to the gun not being able to move horizontally and the only place it can go is up.
last week I took a different rifle and shot a 3/4" (3 shot) group holes touching on 2 shots and 1 shot was slightly lower. but this rifle as well I had trouble shooting and getting it to group but I just thought it grouped better because I cleaned all the copper out. but this last shooting session tells me otherwise. (I shot this gun again as well when my brother and I went to the range) the groups opened back up.
I just want to know if, because im gripping the gun too firmly, its casuing the recoil to throw my POI all over the map.
last week I took a different rifle and shot a 3/4" (3 shot) group holes touching on 2 shots and 1 shot was slightly lower. but this rifle as well I had trouble shooting and getting it to group but I just thought it grouped better because I cleaned all the copper out. but this last shooting session tells me otherwise. (I shot this gun again as well when my brother and I went to the range) the groups opened back up.
I just want to know if, because im gripping the gun too firmly, its casuing the recoil to throw my POI all over the map.