Hopefully I’m posting this in the correct section. Seeing that’s it’s new I don’t know if this is the best spot for this post/question.

I recently started shooting rifle and little Pcc. I have found that blading my body is very comfortable for holding up my rifle for longer periods of time. But, I found that it’s more difficult for me to keep the dot tracking straight up and down with this stance. For me, it’s less predictable at this point in my training.

If I stand more squared off to the target, it seems like the pressures and tension needs are less finicky and generally easier to get a more acceptable outcome for predictive shooting. By finicky I mean, I don’t have to nail the mount 100% every time to get acceptable accuracy and dot predictability. Of course I’m definitely trying to nail the mount the best I can. This seems to be true for both my rifle and Pcc.

After watching some of the xray&ben class dumps, I see that it’s kind of explained in the opposite to what I’m currently seeing regarding bladed vs squared off.

Im a pretty small guy so maybe the gun pushes me around more when I’m bladed to the target.

That’s a whole lot of context for this simple question. But, If the mount is as important as grip with the pistol, I want to get this right from the start.

If the mount is consistent and repeatable, does it really matter how I stand?

Another question: I’d love to see some in depth information about finding the cheek weld index point as the mount is being built. What to look for and so forth. If that already exists in PSTG, can someone point me towards that?

3 hours ago, Joie Curtner said:

If the mount is consistent and repeatable, does it really matter how I stand?

Not really. My general recommendation is blade off stance for plate carrier users and squad stance for more competition shooters

For cheek weld, it also depends on the stance. When you mount your gun, you shouldn’t need to force your neck to move your head back or forth from natural shrug. So experiment adjusting the buttstock to find the proper length of pull