The 6 O'clock hold
Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 6:29 pm
This afternoon I found out how striking the visual benifits of the 6 O'clock hold are for me. I got to load for and fire my Kommission '88 for the first time today. After developing a load at 25 yards I moved to 100. The Point of Impact was about 18" high, which is what you'd expect for the 300 meter zero, and since the front sight is numbered to the rifle I didn't want to change it. So I epoxied a small triangle od aluminum flashing to the rear of the front sight and adjusted it for a nice 100 yard zero.
I then shot a target for the KISS competition, completely forgetting (in 10 minutes) that I'd zeroed Point of Impact to Point of Aim. Really, I couldn't have been happier, nice pattern, just at the bottom of the target since I was holding 6 o'colck. So I walked down and put up another, loaded 12 more and shot holding center. Still a nice showing, but nowhere near as concise a group.
I need to work on the center hold so I can shoot it as well as the 6 oclock. I think black targets will be better than orange.
Anyone else experience this sort of thing?
MM
I then shot a target for the KISS competition, completely forgetting (in 10 minutes) that I'd zeroed Point of Impact to Point of Aim. Really, I couldn't have been happier, nice pattern, just at the bottom of the target since I was holding 6 o'colck. So I walked down and put up another, loaded 12 more and shot holding center. Still a nice showing, but nowhere near as concise a group.
I need to work on the center hold so I can shoot it as well as the 6 oclock. I think black targets will be better than orange.
Anyone else experience this sort of thing?
MM