DWS, I enjoy RF silhouette shooting a lot and my rifle of choice is a cobbled-together Stevens 414 with a shortened barrel and a 3/4" Weaver scope, which I set to hit dead on on the Pigs. Then I can shoot at the feet of the Chickens, just over the shoulders of the Turkeys and about a Ram high. The rifle likes Winchester Wildcat Dynapoints at ~$10.00 per carton (last I bought them.) To me it's more like plinking or hunting than "real" target shooting so I concentrate on good holds and trigger control and ignore equipment issues. The guys I shoot with have Anschutz offhand rifles and exotic scope sights which they constantly fiddle with and gripe about. They shoot Eley Tenex or Lapua or Federal Match at about the cost per 50 as I pay for a carton, and they keep going on about light changes, having the wrong zero, barrel never settling down, etc. For all this activity, they don't seem to do all that much better than me, if as well; scores of 21-24 frequently win, and when the wind is up, scores of 16 sometimes do it. For the life of me, I can't see a light change or a click in windage or elevation doing that much on a silhouette target, if you're already well into the center of mass. Obviously, it could change a ring or two on a standard paper target, but these metal animals aren't standard targets. The equipment guys often seem to wind up the day exasperated with their equipment, threatening to sell it or chuck it into a Bessemer converter. If I'm exasperated, it's for my failure to practice offhand as often as I should be doing; otherwise, it's been a fun and relaxing session and another chance to shoot Old Cattywompus again.
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