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Todd Firth

Probably opening a can of worms here. There's been a lot of talk about proper cheek weld and shooting form and holding your face just right when shooting long range accurately. I agree to these principles...usually. However, some of that went out the window when I was given the opportunity to shoot a pistol 1,000 yds. Yes that's spelled right. It was a 6br, 20"" bbl build on a savage 10 bolt action. Pistol grip with no butt stock. To top it off, it was scoped with a bsa platinum scope. Haha, yes that's spelled right as well. The fore end was supported, the grip wasn't. With my face floating 3" behind the bell and both hands on the grip, the gun hit 8 out 10 on a 10" lollipop @ 1,000 yds. Thus blowing away the human weld to the weapon importance theory. Also blowing away the junk scope theories. At least with that particular type of weapon. Had a crowd behind me deliriously spotting in disbelief and laughter. I repeated that scenario a few times more, until I hit some dud loads the owner of the gun had conjured up to see if I was flinching.lol. Point being, form or not, cheap stuff or not, if it goes where you want it too, the way you want it too, go with it.