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

[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