Here's a picture on Zak Smith's site of a shooter using the hand position in question...Zak is correctly considered a subject matter expert.
What sort of range do they shoot with that hold?
What sort of range do they shoot with that hold?
I tried it out on the range this week @200 and my hits went from good to notsogood.
It's better for speed, speed of acquisition, and speed of transferring between targets.
Of course nothing is guaranteed, but if I have to shoot something that is 200 yards /meters away, I'm probably going to be able to go prone or at least sit or kneel, or use a barricade type solid object for support, I'm probably not going to stand motionless upright
You should practice it.
It's a good way to win cases of beer in bets with friends.
I think he means longer-distance offhand shooting.
Personally, I think that's like practicing knife throwing: potentially useful somewhere, sometime, but very far down the list of priorities.
Yup, that's what I meant.
Shooting from the bench, or prone, gets pretty boring after awhile. Gotta up the difficulty.
I do not know how you concluded that I never practice shooting while standing. But just to be clear...I do practice shooting offhand, standing upright, rifle, shotgun, and pistol.
And I never shoot anything from the bench, unless I get suckered into going to one of those piece of **** ranges that requires it.
My interpretation of the thread at the time was that the stance shown above wouldn't be as good for shooting offhand at 200 yards, and my position is that it is faster on target and faster in transitions, and faster in moving (your body), which is why it's my primary practical stance for shooting a rifle/carbine. And, practically speaking, for uses other than trying to win bets with people for poops and giggles, if I need to shoot something 200 yards away I'm probably not going to do it standing motionless upright.
How many MOA are you talking with the standing shooting?
Gee, with those pics you stole the thread. There is no better semi-auto military style rifles that a civilian could ever wish for.The heavy-hitter equivalent of the pea-shooting AR-15 picture thread! Let's seem 'em! Anything that fires a full power rifle cartridge is game! M14, FAL, G3, M1 Garand, SVT 40, Milsurps!
Here's my M14 - 7.62x51 NATO...
200 yard NRA target used for standing has 3" x ring and 6" 10 ring so shooting 3 moa would give you a clean 100/100
Gee, with those pics you stole the thread. There is no better semi-auto military style rifles that a civilian could ever wish for.