Double Tap

spiderman

spiderman

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First off , the double tap was my fault and not my equipments. I was shooting my AR in 204 .My son and I were doing some shooting. He was sighting in a new upper and I was getting in some trigger time. We shot at fifty yards to get his gun on target and then moved to 130 lasered yards. We were shooting in a pasture and I was trying to get the right height on the rear bag when I turned it sideways as it was going too deep into the crease. I got it to where it lined up right but the bag , now sideways , is wide so I had to come around it with my trigger arm and not along the stock as I should. I thought I would just use my finger straight for one shot and see if I could do my group like that.......Well , double tap......surprised us both and I was curious as how they hit. On inspection , the first one hit one inch high as I was sighted for 200 yards. The second was just one inch , straight above it....I always figured there would be more of a distance between impacts in a situation like this.
So....anyone else have any data on multi shots from AR's at distance???? SM
 
My hunting partner has doubled up a few times off the bench while checking loads and POI during sight in. Amazing to me is his shots when that occurs have sometimes been touching.

We have joked if that was a coyote he would have been hit twice in the same spot.
 
I had a kolar sporting clays shotgun that i couldn't shoot with out doubling. Every time i pulled the trigger it shot both barrels BANG BANG!! There wasn't anything wrong with the shotgun and in fact, everyone i shoot with couldn't get it to do it, and they were trying! Kolar's triggers are supper fast and they are mechanical instead of inertia driven. I have a supper soft trigger pull and all of my tournament shotguns have 1,1/2 pound triggers so i am used to not pulling very hard on a trigger to begin with. Needless to say i didn't keep that shotgun very long. I sold it to my shooting buddy and he hasn't had a lick of trouble. I have even doubled a Beretta 391 a couple of times. Its something to see! It makes you pucker up every time it happens. And forget about hitting the next target, all you can think about is getting whacked again. I just had a set of release triggers installed in my browning xt because of my soft trigger pulling and flinching. It has been working out pretty good!
I can't believe i haven't had any trouble shooting my ar's. And i hope i dont!
 
We do it on the range quite a bit, when playing with AR's. We call it "bumping". Basically we keep a light finger on the trigger and when you pull the trigger, keep some pressure on it and the recoil of the rifle will set it off again and again and again. The most I can get off is around 15 rounds. It's fun and wastes a lot of ammo.. You can do it from the hip or from the shoulder. From the shoulder, it shoots much more accurate that you would imagine. Fun rifles...
 
Shooting the A1's offhand full-auto in the military at 100, the second was about 2 inches over the first, the 3rd about 10 inches over and the rest went into the wild blue. This was shooting life-size silouettes.
The 3-round burst mod was actually an excellent development, in my experience.
 
I used to set up paper plates for targets a 50 and 100 meters to train soldiers on burst fire. The result always ended up with a 30deg or 15deg vertical pattern, once they mastered it and could put the 3rnds on target at 50 consistantly it would move out to 100m. Most would pattern to the right and others to the left.. Some (about 30%) could put all three rnds on the plate @ 100m in the prone position. I have only witnessed one soldier do it un-supported.
 
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