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JULY / AUGUST '11
Improving your accuracy
Trigger
Press:
The two most important components of hitting where you're aiming are sight
alignment and trigger press. Sight alignment is the easiest to correct,
trigger press is more complex. Most problems with trigger control come
from the anticipation of, or reaction to, recoil. We often hear the
expression "squeezing the trigger", this can be misleading because unlike the
act of squeezing a lemon, the hand is firm and does not move, only the trigger
finger presses on the trigger in a steady straight back movement. If you
find your shots going to a particular area of the target, print one of the
targets below to make your own corrections.
J.P.
printable target for right handed shooters
printable target for left handed shooters
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Ham hock ballistic
gelatin calibration
Ballistic
gelatin is used to test bullet penetration and expansion. It has the same
consistency as muscle tissue (which is the same in all mammals). After
being poured into the mold and refrigerated, it is calibrated by firing a steel
bb into the gel at 550 fps and confirming a penetration of 8.5 cm. To
verify this (see picture) a bullet is fired into a block of ballistic gelatin
and penetrates 13", it's then fired through the lower part of a freshly killed
pig
and into the
gelatin. It penetrates 7" of pig and 6" of gelatin, equaling 13".
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Range bag tips:
Screwdrivers
One
handy addition to your range bag are screwdrivers. A set of jewelers
screwdrivers (available at your local dollar store) for adjusting sights and a
long thin phillips, longer than your longest barrel, to dislodge a stubborn
shell casing from the breach.
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Misc:
Winchester's new .22LR
segmenting ammo:
If you shoot a .22 this seems to be an interesting new item, however, I'm not
sure it's been released yet since I haven't found it for sale locally, it's not
on Winchester's web site , and after calling Winchester's corporate offices and
leaving messages on various voice mail boxes, with no return calls (it seems no
one answers there phone), I sold my Winchester stock. J.P.
Gunsite follow-up:
I mentioned in the last newsletter I recently took a handgun course at
Gunsite Academy in Arizona (I try to take at least
one new course a year to keep maintain my skill level).
The class was a mix of experienced and new shooters. At the completion of
our last live fire exercise, the instructor gave the command "empty your
magazine and holster your weapon", we then heard a rapid series of gunshots as
one woman emptied her magazine. J.P.
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