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Bonus Podcast: Sighting in a rifle

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🗓️ 25 January 2011

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Tom describes the two-shot method for sighting in a rifle. For more on sighting in a rifle, visit www.guntalk.tv, or click on one of the following links: Shooting from a bench and Sighting in your rifle with 2 shots

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0:00.0

Hey, this is Tom Gresham with a bonus podcast for you. Now, I know this is an Oli, but I think it's a goody.

0:11.5

I see that the National Shooting Sports Foundation has done a video on their website on the

0:18.7

two-shot siding-in method.

0:21.6

And of course, I think they originally got that from my dad, Grits.

0:25.6

He wrote about it, oh gosh, 25, 30 years ago in his book.

0:30.3

Well, Grits on Guns was the book, but even before that, it was a column in Sports

0:35.4

Field magazine.

0:37.4

The whole concept is, why go out and shoot up a box or two or three, and I've seen it done,

0:44.3

at the shooting range trying to side in your rifle when you can literally do it in two shots.

0:52.3

So I'm going to give you this again and people can save this. They can pull it out

0:56.2

and listen to it when they're ready to go to the range or even take the podcast with them to the

1:01.1

range. This is very simple. So let's start off with the basic concept. When you cite in a rifle,

1:07.3

you put a scope on your rifle. What is the goal? The goal is to have the gun shooting

1:13.6

where the scope is looking or have the scope looking where the gun is shooting, right?

1:20.6

All you're really trying to do is get them to go to the same place so that wherever the crosshairs

1:26.6

are pointing, that's where the bullet impacts.

1:29.3

So, consider this. Let's get on a shooting bench, a good solid shooting bench, with good sand bags,

1:39.3

or a shooting wrist that will hold your rifle steady. If the rifle's wiggling around, this won't work.

1:47.1

And also, you know what? If the rifle is wiggling around, you can't cite in your rifle,

1:52.7

and you don't really know what your rifle's doing, because you don't know if it's the rifle

1:56.9

that's not accurate or you're wobbling that is not accurate. Okay, so now we're on a solid

2:03.0

bench and we have a good shooting rest. Get all set up and if you have not borisited, you might

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