I've seen it in some threads here. Just started checking out some of the topics in "competition" and I'm already baffled by your elaborate signals and secret language. (Natural point of aim? Just guessing. Don't quite know what that implies if it's right.)
What's npa?
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NPA is probably one of the most overlooked basics of good highpower rifle position shooting. Spending a little time learning how to establish a good NPA in the different positions and then applying what you learn pays off in consistently higher scores. NPA is important in all positions.
Regards,
hps
Regards,
hps
Steve Smith
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Hps1 is right! I'm way too busy with Perry preperation to type much, but NPA is the KEY to the game.
Jon Coppenbarger
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steves loading so I will take a short crack at npa.
it is the position that your body always tries to go back to so you find it to start with before your first shot so you don't have to find it between every shot.
you want to check you npa then do this.
get in any position like standing or sitting or prone and hold your rifle and look at the target and then get totally comfy and relax and look threw your sights at your target like the center of the black.
take off hand:
you are holding the rifle up and looking threw the sights at the target:
NOW DO THIS!
relax
close your eyes
take a few slow controlled breaths
relax and with no tension on anyplace on your body
then open your eyes and see exactly where your sights are now.
where they are NOW IS YOUR NPA!
if they are off to one side or the other adjust your body or hold to attain that relaxed npa position.
if you are high or low then move your feet in or out to adjust the height of the rifle to find your npa.
now thats what makes off hand tough because you are forced to break position everytime to reload and then find your npa again.
now in prone think of it this way after your pull the trigger and then you relax does the sights come right back exactly to the same spot as before you fired or do you find you need to slightly pull or push the sights a little one way or the other after each shot?
then why not just put your body in a position that the sight come right back for you in the same place every time its easy and thats your npa.
same with elevation if you take the same constant breath each time but you find that the sights are to high or to low then adjust your front arm position till the sights are exactly where you want them to be on every breath.
if you do those simple things you all will be amazed how fast and easy rapid prone will become and talk about accuracy you will start to wonder how you did not shoot 100 out of 100 every time .
it is the position that your body always tries to go back to so you find it to start with before your first shot so you don't have to find it between every shot.
you want to check you npa then do this.
get in any position like standing or sitting or prone and hold your rifle and look at the target and then get totally comfy and relax and look threw your sights at your target like the center of the black.
take off hand:
you are holding the rifle up and looking threw the sights at the target:
NOW DO THIS!
relax
close your eyes
take a few slow controlled breaths
relax and with no tension on anyplace on your body
then open your eyes and see exactly where your sights are now.
where they are NOW IS YOUR NPA!
if they are off to one side or the other adjust your body or hold to attain that relaxed npa position.
if you are high or low then move your feet in or out to adjust the height of the rifle to find your npa.
now thats what makes off hand tough because you are forced to break position everytime to reload and then find your npa again.
now in prone think of it this way after your pull the trigger and then you relax does the sights come right back exactly to the same spot as before you fired or do you find you need to slightly pull or push the sights a little one way or the other after each shot?
then why not just put your body in a position that the sight come right back for you in the same place every time its easy and thats your npa.
same with elevation if you take the same constant breath each time but you find that the sights are to high or to low then adjust your front arm position till the sights are exactly where you want them to be on every breath.
if you do those simple things you all will be amazed how fast and easy rapid prone will become and talk about accuracy you will start to wonder how you did not shoot 100 out of 100 every time .
What jc121 said!
One thing which might help a newer shooter in establishing npa is to pick a "pivot point" for each position and once your npa is established, do not move that pivot point until the string is completed.
I have tried coaching several new shooters who cannot maintain a position for 10 to 20 minutes required to complete a string. Until a shooter is able to maintain npa throughout an entire string, they will not shoot consistent, good scores!
Being a right handed shooter, my left foot is my pivot point for offhand. To shift npa to the right, I move my right foot to the left (all movements are given in relation to a line from target to rifle muzzle), to move npa left, move right foot to the right. To raise the muzzle of the rifle with my normal amount of retained air, I move right foot to the rear and vice-versa.
I shoot the crossed ankle sitting position, which I know is frowned on by most shooters, but what with arthritis causing extremely stiff back and some dunlop disease, can no longer attain a crossed leg position. Crossed ankle position works for me and I simply move heels left or right for windage adjustments to npa and pull ankles closer to body to raise muzzle.
Prone, the left elbo is the pivot point. To swing left or right swing entire body L or R and to raise muzzle, slide to the rear without moving left elbo.
All of this seems quite basic to all you old timers out there, but hopefully will be of some help to at least one newcomer to our ranks.
Practice your npa while dryfiring (another excellent tool in improving one's scores) and pay attention to the feedback which is so obvious when not masked by recoil of live fire practice.
Regards,
hps
One thing which might help a newer shooter in establishing npa is to pick a "pivot point" for each position and once your npa is established, do not move that pivot point until the string is completed.
I have tried coaching several new shooters who cannot maintain a position for 10 to 20 minutes required to complete a string. Until a shooter is able to maintain npa throughout an entire string, they will not shoot consistent, good scores!
Being a right handed shooter, my left foot is my pivot point for offhand. To shift npa to the right, I move my right foot to the left (all movements are given in relation to a line from target to rifle muzzle), to move npa left, move right foot to the right. To raise the muzzle of the rifle with my normal amount of retained air, I move right foot to the rear and vice-versa.
I shoot the crossed ankle sitting position, which I know is frowned on by most shooters, but what with arthritis causing extremely stiff back and some dunlop disease, can no longer attain a crossed leg position. Crossed ankle position works for me and I simply move heels left or right for windage adjustments to npa and pull ankles closer to body to raise muzzle.
Prone, the left elbo is the pivot point. To swing left or right swing entire body L or R and to raise muzzle, slide to the rear without moving left elbo.
All of this seems quite basic to all you old timers out there, but hopefully will be of some help to at least one newcomer to our ranks.
Practice your npa while dryfiring (another excellent tool in improving one's scores) and pay attention to the feedback which is so obvious when not masked by recoil of live fire practice.
Regards,
hps
Jon Coppenbarger
Member
here is a few quick hints for your prone rapid and also your slow prone.
when you get down into the prone position and are set into the position try this for a quick check.
aim the front post onto the target and then breath slowly up and down and the front sights will move up and down threw the target and YOU MUST! have the front post go directly up and down exactly threw the exact center of the black when you take your breath.
if it does not do that your npa is not right.
to correct it do this.
after you get your npa close and it seems fairly ok and you can find that center pretty well BUT! when you that a breath the sights move from 7 to 1 or from 4 to 11 o'clock you are close but to get real fast acurate rapids that come easy and return right to the exact center of the target after recoil leave your front elbow in place and move your body by slightly shifting your belly till your sights go exactly straight up and down threw the 6 to 12.
it might take a few seconds but you will greatly decrease your left to right shots in the string and also have very fast follow up shots..
after you adjust your breathing to get you to what it should be you can get your height down by streching your rear leg out to raise the sights and pull it in to lower the sights.
these are fast rapid adjustments to get you to find right npa for rapids and they work.
when you get down into the prone position and are set into the position try this for a quick check.
aim the front post onto the target and then breath slowly up and down and the front sights will move up and down threw the target and YOU MUST! have the front post go directly up and down exactly threw the exact center of the black when you take your breath.
if it does not do that your npa is not right.
to correct it do this.
after you get your npa close and it seems fairly ok and you can find that center pretty well BUT! when you that a breath the sights move from 7 to 1 or from 4 to 11 o'clock you are close but to get real fast acurate rapids that come easy and return right to the exact center of the target after recoil leave your front elbow in place and move your body by slightly shifting your belly till your sights go exactly straight up and down threw the 6 to 12.
it might take a few seconds but you will greatly decrease your left to right shots in the string and also have very fast follow up shots..
after you adjust your breathing to get you to what it should be you can get your height down by streching your rear leg out to raise the sights and pull it in to lower the sights.
these are fast rapid adjustments to get you to find right npa for rapids and they work.
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