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 Posted: Thu May 02, 2013 1:50 pm |
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| Gerard |
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| EverHopeful wrote: |
Nice job Gerard! For "a lot shaky" you sure put me in my place  |
NOT MY INTENTION! Although I've always been rather competitive, putting anyone in their place is certainly not part of the motivation. If I'm being hard on anyone it's myself - frankly I was disappointed in not having at least nicked every pink dot. Guess I won't be happy with my results until I shoot a 600 at a big match. Maybe not even then, and that score seems unlikely considering the record stands at 594. But I think the point for me is that the pursuit is endless. If I did shoot a 600, I'd want to improve on that until every shot was a 10.9. Which is absurd. But having been painfully perfectionist since childhood it's what I'm stuck with.
| EverHopeful wrote: |
| More psychedelic redness in the May challenge... |
Oh dear. I misread the above post about extending the April match through May and didn't notice the op-art May version. Have to grab that and try on a day when I'm at least 2 days away from a workout. |
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| Posted: Thu May 02, 2013 5:00 pm |
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| EverHopeful |
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Don't worry Gerard, I didn't mean anything by it. Besides, a little competitiveness is the whole point of this, no?
Do I remember correctly that you shoot with an ocluder on your non-sighting eye? I tried this target with open sights and I really couldn't cope with it being so busy. The over-lapping patterns when I concentrated on the front sight were most distracting, so I had to go back to the red dot!
Looking forward to the next target, and then I'll get back to the 10m practice. Things are getting busy, I suspect my 10m is going to suffer over the summer. |
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| Posted: Thu May 02, 2013 5:40 pm |
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| Gerard |
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| EverHopeful wrote: |
| Do I remember correctly that you shoot with an ocluder on your non-sighting eye? |
Indeed, I left the stock translucent (frosted plastic) occluder on my 'Olympic' model Champion frame. Took off the opaque grey one though. I've read that depth perception and balance are better when both eyes receive enough light. I've been a bit back and forth with the shooting eye, sometimes using just the lens, others using the iris. Mostly like the iris, and just this week I've swapped it around to the front side of the lens. Bugs me less there as it's not so close to my eyelashes, and it seems perhaps to work a bit better there.
I've got a lot of work in the shop in addition to family and fitness and other stuff to chase down, so probably won't get to the May target set for a while. I am curious about how the various dot sizes and patterns might mess up my sighting, though I suspect not too much. I actually practice shooting at various sizes of dots fairly often just so I don't get too locked into the one relationship between front sight size and black blob. That's sort of a hedge against varying range conditions. I've seen one range where it was really dim, my home range is slightly brighter than that, and a couple where the targets were very brightly lit by comparison. Everyone says they're within regulation brightness... yeah, right, like anyone at a range even owns a light meter. But the relative brightness does change the response of one's eye and the iris on the shooting glasses can only compensate so much, resulting in variations in the perceived size of the black. |
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