Air Rifle Shooting: Exercises with the gun

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Hi
I am writing about this stuff after a very long time, the reason is I was busy with some work.
Today we will talk about some of the exercises one may want to do with the gun. The idea of these exercises is to make a person learn about the technique without wondering about his score.
When you shoot live ammunition, the first thing you want to check is how the shot went, this means you forget about the technique. These exercises take the excitement of shooting out of the equation and make you focus on the technique.
Today we will focus on the most basic of techniques vis
1. Holding
2. Dry Fire
3. Group Shooting
I will also point you to some You tube videos which will talk about stability and strengthen your core.
Holding – The job of the holding exercise is to make you hold the rifle and remain in the said position for extended period of time. The idea is it will give you more stamina to hold the rifle. Holding may be done by pointing a rifle towards target or by pointing it towards the wall. It may be done with or without wearing the kit. I would suggest one should do all combinations of holding. To do holding one must follow the following steps.
a. Choose the holding mechanism which can be
a. With Kit on target
b. With Kit on wall
c. Without kit on target
d. Without kit on wall
b. Ensure your stand and other items are in position
c. Set the timer (to start with for 30 s)
d. Pick up your rifle and get into the position as if you would fire it
e. Follow your shooting rhythm and actually dry fire the rifle
f. Now in general you would follow through and take the rifle down, in holding don’t do this, instead keep holding the rifle until your timer beeps and then bring it down.
g. You should try to get to 5 min of holding time per set and be able to do 10 sets per day.
h. The resting time between sets should not exceed 1 min.
Dry fire – The objective of a dry fire exercise is to get you to the lane and do all the steps from taking position down to follow through on a target except that a pellet will not leave the rifle. This is accomplished by putting the rifle in dry fire / training mode. Dry fire helps you build technique and one should at least do 1 hour of dry every single day
Group shooting – As you will learn from a lot of people that when you do shooting initially, shooting 10 is not important; it is shooting at the same spot which is important. If you can get all your pellets through the same hole, getting a 10 is just a matter of giving clicks. This exercise will require you to shoot 5 or 10 pellets on a target. Once done you should check how close by are all the pellets. The idea is that group should become smaller and smaller as you practice and finally all of them should almost go through the same hole.

FInally some youtube videos

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[YouTube]www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGSv3EnIego[/YouTube]
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[YouTube]www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZMT7-hX3VM[/YouTube]