Groupings? HELP!!!

[Baylian]

I found a great article in Field & Stream on this subject. Click on guns. The name of the article is Group Therapy. The author shows targets and gives possible reasons for the error. Remember I asked about verticle stringing. He says it's because the foreend is on too hard a surface. Basicly bouncing. I was shooting with my left hand squeezing the bag to adjust for height. Yesterday I held the foreend instead. I put several shots almost in the same hole. I had was sub-MOA on 3 of 4 groups. Read this article. It will help. It helped me. Thanks for all your suggestions and replies.

Waidmannsheil, TJ

[ringo]

My experience is similar to Baylian. I am a right handed shooter and got the same erratic results as you did. I sandbag my forestock and place my left index finger on the barrel at that point, and that stabilized my groups to sub MOA. Before I just let the forestock sit supported only by the sandbag, tucking my left hand under the stock butt, not realizing the squeeze on the trigger is sufficient to cause enough motion although seemingly unnoticed to create stringing. I too have been a victim.

[Brithunter]

Ahh so I see your getting there glad to hear it as it's disheartening otherwise.

I have just found that when shooting a .270 BSA Majestic Featherweight (rifle weighs 6 1/4lbs) I have that I have to modify my normal grip of my left hand as the lack of weight of the rifle jumps more and it ruins the grouping unless I calm it down with a different and tighter grip with my left hand. Despite shoting fro years it seems that I will have to practice this and possibly make it my normal hold so I will have to re-train myself.