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Two People Shooting the Same Rifle
It is a common thing to discover that a rifle will not shoot the same for two different people without change of sights. This is usually ascribed to difference in vision, which of course might be true, but often it is a mere matter of whether or not the weapon is pressed firmly to the shoulder and how it is gripped. One of the hardest lessons to learn in rifle shooting is that of grasping and backing up the piece uniformly. If under excitement and nervous strain the marksman tightens his grip upon the arm to an unusual extent, the result will surely be noted on the target.
Everything here said applies emphatically to heavily charged rifles of light weight. It requires a high order of skill indeed to shoot a .450 high-power rifle, and few are the men who can make a good pattern with it whatever the position from which it is shot. More than one sharpshooter can keep his ten shots in the six-inch at two hundred yards with the Scheutzen .28 who could not stay in the three-foot circle with the Jeffery .333.
Askins, Charles. Rifles and Rifle Shooting. New York: Outing, 1912. Print.
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