Hey! I am not the only person doing this! what are they doing?  And, if you are wondering what the heck are those other guys doing in these pictures, you are seeing the shooters spotters.  They are looking at the targets you are shooting at as you are firing.  They can be as important as your firearm.  If there is a breeze from right to left, and you are missing left, they can tell you.  If you miss two in a row high but think you were on target when you fired, they are telling you you missed high, you put 2 and 2 together and adjust you sights down before you blow the entire round. 

Although the grips on the stock change, you will note that all of these have the forward arm pulled solid against the body.

This is a body position not like the one I had described for myself, but it is a common one and I have seen in used by very successful shooters.  The hip is shifted forward with the elbow resting on the hip itself.  The upper body is shifted back to balance the weight.  With the elbow anchored well on the hip, it can be a very solid hold on the rifle.  I am not physically able to hold this comfortably, so it is not for me.  If you can do it, from what I saw why uncomfortably holding it, there is a large reduction in vertical movement.

In this picture here, you also see two completely different styles for holding the rifle.  The one on the left is resting the trigger guard on the palm. the one on the right is resting the stock into a notch between two fingers.  

Here is a generally upright stance, resting the stock on the fingers

This one is holding the trigger guard in the palm, and has the rifle between notched fingers, or he only has three fingers.

Here is one resting the rifle across the hand held back.

Another one with the notched fingers, but a little more forward on the stock.

This one has the fingers in a similar notched position, but the stock of the rifle is resting on the palm.

One tip on equipment I recently figured out. I started noticing how high a lot of the scopes were off of the rifle, then it hit me........... If the scope is higher above the rifle, this brings the rifle down on the holding position, exactly what I was wanting, I was stuck on thinking of solving the problem by getting longer arms.  You are allowed two inches from the top of the receiver to the bottom of the scope tube.  I now have mine at 1.5 inches, increased by about half an inch, plus my new rifle has a stock that is about a half an inch lower on the forward grip.  So I dropped my hand about one inch one the forward grip.  This was a definite benefit.  If you are planning on razing your scope, plan on a shim under the scope tube on the rear mount.  This will help keep the adjustment range of the scope centered.  In other words, you might find that you can not adjust the scope to sight in at the 100 meter targets because it is out of the adjustment range of  the scope.  I used two thick nesses of aluminum can cut to shape with old scissors.

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