![]() ![]() Your dominant hand should grip the rifle at the rifle grip comfortably so you have maximum trigger control.Your shoulders should be level while resting your arms at the elbows.If you can not breathe comfortably in this position, you need to assume the bent-leg prone position as you will be be inaccurate and fatigue over time. Your stomach should be resting on the ground and allow you to still comfortably breathe.Together with your feet this creates a very stable anchor so you dont lose your position due to recoil or movement up front. Legs relaxed and somewhat wider apart than shoulder width.Feet relaxed and spread apart so the inside of the foot is making full contact against the ground.Pictured: Prone shooting is great to teach marksmanship to younger hunters as its fun, safe and requires very little strength.įrom bottom to top, these are the elements of the prone position: The expert hunter is served very well by this position as it will often be the only way to fire off a long range shot at wild game, and it is a common competition shooting style for sport shooters. Prone shooting remains relevant throughout the entirity of the hunters/shooters skill curve and learning. There is no stress while shooting prone and in fact it is one of the few ways to mess up a prone shot to rush the shot. Shooting prone is often associated with more military shooting than hunting, but it is a great way for beginning hunters and sport shooters to get acquainted with guns and shooting. When we shoot standing up, our shoulders fatigue rather quickly while trying to aim the rifle, which means that the end of the practice session is usually of lesser quality than the beginning. During practice, there will be quite low fatigue as well as the most work is what is being done by your shoulders propping up your upper body, which allows for longer practice sessions of higher quality. The prone position is also inherently stealthy, as you offer a minimal silhouette when lying down on the ground which makes it extra usefull in a hunting scenario. As hunters we have to allways assume the shot position that offers the most accurate shot at the target out of the ones that are available to us. Without furniture or gear, the ground is the only consistent reliable source of support and stability and hence the prone position is so usefull. Benchrest shooting is mostly conducted when zeroing your rifle or for benchrest competitions where the limits of inherent accuracy are pushed to the max, but in a real world scenario there will be very few opportunities to achieve that same level of support and stability. ![]() Check out the video from Steffen Foullon on Norma Academy or keep reading here for more!Īs mentioned, the prone position offers the most accuracy after the benchrest. However, for some body types, the straight-leg prone position is less accurate and very strenuous, as a pronounced stomach can introduce both inaccurate movement and pain to the shot. In the video below we illustrate the straight-leg style as it is the most accurate. There are two main styles of prone position shooting and they refer to the placement of the legs, either straight-leg prone position or bent-leg prone position. For that reason, it is important to learn and practice prone position shooting in order to be able to translate your accuracy and precision in practice to a real world scenario on wild game or competition. As benchrest shooting requires a lot of gear and furniture to set up, it is often unavailable as a shooting position to the hunter in the field or at your local shooting range. Next to the benchrest style of shooting, the prone position shooting technique is the most accurate style of shooting that every hunter and sport shooter needs to master. ![]()
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