So if there's something I learned....

[islandermyk]

I completely understand and will do.

I need to do this.. My muscle memory (especially) on my whole left arm needs being tweeked. I have a bad tendency of muscling that side up with my shoulder pointing straight up.
I've noticed too that I catch my neck still holding my head up still which I think may have threw me off on my parallax at times.
Another thing I caught that was happening was every time I broke away from the rifle. I was catching myself not getting the same feel when I load the rifle causing me to break off the rifle again... the bipod is probably slipping on the dirt... still trying to figure that out too.
My groups are pretty consistent so far keeping it under an moa and seeing the progress when I'm stretching it out a little out there. I totally know what this means too.... MORE DRY FIRING!

[TheBelly]

I totally know what this means too.... MORE DRY FIRING!

a drill that I use is to practice getting into a good position. Often times, we get set up and then do 100-200 dry fires, but only one set up.

so, I practice getting set up as part of the drill. I do this at the range, also... One shot fired = one complete set up and trigger squeeze.

[islandermyk]

I've been sick for a few days... sorry for the late response

You can set the gun up at the house . Flop down prone behind the rifle with your eye's closed . Build your position until your comfortable then open your eye's . There should be no issues with eye relief or scope shadow , if there is adjust the cheek piece height and eye relief until its right . Your position should be comfortable enough to be in for extended periods of time , if your not comfortable your not going to shoot well .

To get the bipod loaded build your position and then without moving the gun lift your body and roll forward into the gun about 1/2 inch or so . You don't need a huge amount of pressure on the legs just enough so the rifle recoils in a straight line and returns on target . NPA plays a big part in this , if you NPA is off the rifle won't recoil straight . This is important because its critical to see where the bullet went and the shooter has the best seat in the house to see this .

Parallax issues will be minimized with the rifle set up properly because you will have consistent cheek weld which puts your eye in the same place every time .

Pretty much all you'll need for Raton is the stuff you bring to the PD match , the new guy's always get cut some slack and if you need to borrow something the guy's on your squad will loan it to you . Pretty much all the questions and info can be found at the threads for the Sporting Rifle Match on here and SH , there are links to the match website in both threads .

Right on! Right on! I just like to hear it from those who have ran this match. I'm one of'em that kinda over thinks it in the lesser of things way... if I could get away with traveling light. I'll do it, but I'd hate to get caught up with not having the thing (s) I may need in the end, and or having that thing and not even using it.

I understand what you're saying with loading the bipod. I've just recently learned this. I "use" to muscle the load into the bipod and pull the rifle from behind into me. Complete failure, I know! Some days it worked.. and most days it didn't...

I'm learning a lot from dry firing and moving on to different distance targets and adjusting for parallax for it. I wish I learned the true meaning of this when I first got into LR shooting 2 years ago.
Thank you C ward! It's people like you that make this sport fucken bad ass!

a drill that I use is to practice getting into a good position. Often times, we get set up and then do 100-200 dry fires, but only one set up.

so, I practice getting set up as part of the drill. I do this at the range, also... One shot fired = one complete set up and trigger squeeze.

Tim K was expressing that I try to get into this habit as well. Looks like I'll be working on this too