Clinton350
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- Dec 13, 2015
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For the life of me I cannot shoot a rifle with any amount of recoil off of a benchrest with any consistency. As you could imagine, this makes testing loads very difficult. 22LR or 223 don't seem to give me much trouble but my M1A in 308 is about to make me pull my hair out.
I'm using a mechanical forward rest and a rear sandbag. I've tried every conceivable shooting position I can think of. I've tried holding the rifle with both hands or hold the rear bag with my offhand. I've tried pulling the rifle into my shoulder and I've tried letting it "free recoil".
The end result is always the same. The rifle rolls over in the front rest to the left between 30-45 degrees. This has got to be something to do with the way the butt of the stock meets my shoulder but I can't say for sure. Last week I managed to shoot 10 shots in a row without this happening. I had placed a spare magazine under the rear bag to give it some more elevation but the concrete bench messed up the magazine pretty good so I did not repeat that today.
Anyone else ever had this problem?
I'm using a mechanical forward rest and a rear sandbag. I've tried every conceivable shooting position I can think of. I've tried holding the rifle with both hands or hold the rear bag with my offhand. I've tried pulling the rifle into my shoulder and I've tried letting it "free recoil".
The end result is always the same. The rifle rolls over in the front rest to the left between 30-45 degrees. This has got to be something to do with the way the butt of the stock meets my shoulder but I can't say for sure. Last week I managed to shoot 10 shots in a row without this happening. I had placed a spare magazine under the rear bag to give it some more elevation but the concrete bench messed up the magazine pretty good so I did not repeat that today.
Anyone else ever had this problem?