At that point I decide to release my hold point on the guns fore end and let the fore end float in the front rest and move my hand back to the rifle butt stock for additional support back there. Now I am using a front rest and a rear bag and holding the fore end of the rifle firmly into the front rest bag. The next 4 rounds hit 2 inches high and an inch to the right. The first round fired at the target hit nearly dead center of the bullseye. So consistent recoil management is crucial to shooting decent groups from the bench. The recoil from this subsonic ammo is akin to firing an AR15 rifle as far as felt recoil goes, fairly mild, with the exception that the muzzle wants to jump up and roll to the right. Now before I go into explaining the attached target and groupings I shot, I would like to elaborate on the recoil impulse generated by our. I had previously sighted the rifle in at 100 yards with a different lot of our subsonic ammunition. I had installed a Rifle Basix aftermarket trigger, threaded the barrel and was using our sister company’s (IQ Metals) suppressor. Yesterday, October 4th I took my own Ruger 77/44, a used gun I purchased (see attached photo) out to test a recently manufactured batch of our 400 grain subsonic ammo. I am trying to prove out my velocity consistency, bullet design (weight and shape) and how all this effects accuracy, ideally optimizing customer satisfaction.
Now I am typically shooting bone stock rifles with the exception of an after market trigger and threaded barrel with a suppressor attached while testing our subsonic ammunition. So, that got me thinking, if a firearm moves before the bullet leaves the barrel traveling at 2800 fps what am I up against shooting a subsonic cartridge traveling at 1000fps? From that point on I really focused on the way I managed recoil during load development and testing. The gun is going to move before the bullet leaves the barrel and you’re not going to stop it from doing so, although if you practice ‘ shot follow through‘, and control recoil in a consistent manner, you will shoot better groups. There was apparently a point to all of the peculiar looking features I saw on his gun. Due to that fact, it is critical to practice consistent recoil management to shoot the kind of groups he was shooting. Now, he was shooting a 30BR cartridge with a muzzle velocity around 2800 feet per second and made no bones about the fact that the firearm moved BEFORE the bullet left the barrel. Beyond the gun, ammunition, scope, bags, forends, stocks, and bagrider slick strips on the stock, he talked at length about recoil management. What I saw appeared to be twenty or so one-hole groups on his targets? So we got to talking and I was asking him just how anyone can do such things with a gun and I got a real education from a seasoned benchrest shooter. I am not a competition shooter so I have no idea what these guns and shooters are actually capable of. His target consisted of roughly twenty or so small bullseyes. As I was setting up to shoot my ammunition I glanced down range with my spotting scope to look at the target he had been shooting. Set in an obviously expensive front-rest and rear-bag contraption was an odd looking bench rest type firearm. As I was told, he traveled around the country in his motor home, which contained a very well equipped ammunition loading set up. Several months back, while I was developing some subsonic loads, I went to the local range for testing and ran into a very interesting older gentlemen, 80 years old to be exact, who was there to participate in a bench rest competition the very next day.
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