The reason for doing this is that, when shooting from any supported, 'straight behind the rifle' position, it enables your head to remain in the most natural, upright, comfortable position possible when looking through the scope. I found this a little uncomfortable at first but soon got used to it. In most situations this will result in the butt resting on the medial portion of your collarbone close to where it attaches to the sternum. My take on his advice is that you should try to position the rifle butt on your body as high and medial (i.e. I watched Phillip Velayo's video when he posted it and it is by far the most helpful shooting advice that I have ever received. I'm still a work in progress but I've never been so comfortable behind my rifle!Ĭlick to expand.I couldn't agree with this more. Just because you read something in a book does not mean that it's right. What I perceived as a lack of talent and or poor vision, were in reality poorly implemented fundamentals. Thank God we have folks like Phillip and Scott willing to share what they have learned with us. The end result is that I can now spot my shots and shoot pain free. My neck no longer hurts and the reticle barely moves at all during The recoil impulse. I now have the rifle mounted on the upper portion of my collarbone much more to the centerline of my body. This set off a snowball effect that exceeds the purpose of this post. So I had to lay my head over on an angle to try to see through the optic. The width of my torso meant shouldering the rifle in the pocket, as most all folks would instruct, put the optic too far away from my centerline. Phillip Vellayo, Gunwerks instructor, thankfully shared what is illustrated in the video above with me a few months ago. After almost 2 years of shooting and competing I was all but ready to give it up due to an inability to spot my shots and ice pick in my neck type pain every time I shot. So I admittedly am not the typical shooter, nor PRS competitor. I'm 6'6" 346 lb and had a bad car crash a few years ago with resultant back and neck injury.
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