I dont know to be honest.Vaughan wrote:Why on earth would shooting off sticks, with the fore end resting on the sticks be different to shooting off the bench with the fore end resting on, well, whatever you rest it on? I don't say it isn't so, I just struggle to understand why. I can see shooting off hand, and even off the sticks, you might hold the rifle differently and your body will absorb the recoil differently but this is still a bit of a head-scratcher for me.
But when shooting of the sticks the forend was not supported by the sticks. I held it like an offhand shooting position and the sticks were under the reciever just in front of the trigger guard.
Also I dont think shooting off the bench your body rolls with the recoil.
Even offhand without the sticks was great. After shooting the right hand barrel first, it kicks and you roll with it and instinctively bring the sight back on the target at fire the second barrel.
I have fired over a hundred rounds of the bench and they always crossed. Today for the first time offhand and most of the time they didn't, and if they did cross it was only very slightly.