mechanically sound rifle=good barrel=good pellet batch=practice=confidence=more targets hit.[/QUOTE]
I would agree with chris completely, but when range finding goes adrift as with age, it becomes a good social day out, and no matter how much practice it doesn't really fully come back.
Mechanically sound rifle, + good consistent ranging ability= all the above.
At 75 I really struggle; but scores go up if the range is known, maybe bench rest?
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Fighter against the "Dark Arts" A stranger in an even stranger land.
GC2+Leupold 14.4-34x45
AA400 fac receiver+sidewinder 8.5-34x52
Weihrauch HW77k fiddled with and doing what it wants to +Zeiss 3-9x36.
Weihrauch HW90k
Weihrauch HW97k learning from above,now sporting a Maccarri 77/97 target stock..+Bushnell 3200.Go on shoot one you know you want to
Daystate mk3 RT Delux + bushnell 4200 8-24x 40Does what it should again & again.
Fwb 124 + Optima was good is good!
Webley Vulcan.