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    STAND – AND DELIVER

    Aug 05, 2021 4 minutes
    ANDY McLACHLAN

    YOUR EXPERT

    Like most shooters, I consider the unsupported standing shot to be one of, if not the most difficult of all shots to deliver accurately, certainly on a regular basis anyway.

    The shooter soon discovers that the gun, which might feel perfectly balanced when in the sitting or prone positions, now resembles a bag of coal that just will not allow itself to remain still as its considerable weight attempts to pull the shooter’s aim from where intended.

    However, we can take advantage of all this weight when in the standing position to use as “ballast”. What I mean by this is that if the gun and scope combination is held in a particular way, the shooter

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