Which rifles you are going to shoot, and what kind of shooting?
That's probably a stupid question.
For me, I have a number of military rifles, and I have a precise agenda, I was wondering if I am the only maniac like this!
First thing is that, other than when shooting at the military club, I shoot all my rifles ON THE EXACT SAME TARGET, so as to facilitate comparisons.
This is the "official 50 metres slow fire target". Why this one? Because it is exactly the same as the target I used in France.
If shooting with a scope, I add a white patch in the middle to better see the crosshair.
Second thing is that I am running a kind of competition between all my rifles, with a ranking of all of them, to see which one does the best score, on a 10 shot group at 100 metres on that same target.
The ranking so far:
=> Best one in my collection, my scoped CZ 452 with SK ammo: 100/100, no effort, 1 attempt!.
=> Worst one: my family owned Gewehr 98AZ: 74/100, after lots of efforts and mucking around!
=> Most other rifles with iron sights between 85/100 and 95/100
(this poor G98AZ has a nice history: taken from the Germans by my great grand-father who was a communist militant, who then converted to christiasnim post-war: he threw the bolt in a bin and the rifle under the roof - yes, that's never good for a barrel! I legalised it nonetheless and imported it to Australia when I moved over here).
Third thing is the order of shooting: I start with the rifles which have the lower ranking, and try to improve their ranking, then I move to the next one in order of low ranking. So I end-up doing more shooting with the bad rifles than with the good ones!
But at least I shoot all of them at some stage, unlike many shooters with tons of allegedly unfired rifles in their safes .
So for each rifle of my collection, I follow the same procedure:
- Do the load development,
- Get a nice 10 shot group on the slow fire target at 100 metres
- Try to shoot them a 100/200/300m (at least one of those distances) on the bigger target at the military firearm club.
Given I shoot only once a month, that will keep me busy until retirement!
How about you, do you follow a methodology or just your heart?
(and end-up shooting always the same rifles?)