matters. I have found that you can see as much as a 20fps difference in muzzle velocity by just mismanaging the recoil management. Yes, you read that correctly, your muzzle velocity can and will change based on your position and how you manage the rifle. It’s a critical element and needs to be understood.
Some ranges only let you shoot off a bench, but many of the competitions we participate in are either prone or a variety of alternate positions. When putting new shooters on a bench, we turn them around and square them up. The benches that force you to sit sideways and bladed are a no-go for us right from the start. Turn that bench around and sit squarely. Being up tall and bladed will push you off balance and bleed velocity off compared to the prone position.
It’s important to understand the type of shooting you are engaged in, the discipline. Each discipline has its little variations. I would not preach recoil management to the benchrest crowd, but that is not my discipline of choice.
Different rifles have different recoil pulses, so match the system to the technique employed.
The best advice I can give the new shooter reading this is to relax behind the rifle. You need to be a slab of dead meat and not to push or to hold tension in your shoulders. We used to read about guys trying to practice recoil management based on the written word. Many will complain about the bipods rolling or creeping forward. That tells me you are using your shoulders and not your core weight. It’s about sliding that belt line forward about a half inch. Next, make sure you are not unloading the bipod by reversing the order. Guys will move forward first and pull back into the shoulder pocket second. This unloads the bipod.
Fixing That Bipod Hop
Bipods don’t hop. There is no “UP” component. That comes from the stock bouncing off the shooter. The bullet goes one way, the recoil goes the other way and, like electricity, that recoil will follow the path of least resistance. If you feel you are straight and square behind the rifle and the system is still jumping to the side, consider that your 6 o’clock hold might not be right for you. Instead, the stock might need to be closer to 7 o’clock on your body versus that 6 o’clock hold. A Harris bipod is generally the worst offender when it comes to the rifle jumping to the side. Be sure to come one notch up on the legs to remove the spring from the system and check square. It’s a more difficult method to start with it because a Harris is so ridged.
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