In the 3rd episode of our Let’s shoot series, I take you out as I’m finishing up the review on the Area 419 Hellfire muzzle device.

We are using the Mantix x10 elite to measure the recoil pattern of the rifle as it changes from muzzle device to muzzle device. I was so blown away with the Area 419 Hellfire muzzle brake that I wanted to have another shooting session to validate my results.

I figured I’d take you along on my day of shooting and the techniques I’ve currently been working with. The main focus of the day is to try to prevent flinching. The flinching causes the weapon to deviate my micro amounts and it greatly impacts precision rifle accuracy.

In order to overcome flinching, I’ve been working a lot of recoil control during my dry fire with the Tikka t3x tac a1.

The gear we used in today’s video:

Tikka T3x tac a1

Master Piece arms EVG grip

Vortex Viper PST Gen II 5-25 in MIls

Warne 20 moa scope mount w/30mm rings

Atlast bipod w/Hawk hill custom feet

Tab gear rear bag

I was super happy with the results achieved on the let’s shoot session. The biggest changes I made was to put the stock of the rifle more in line with my face. I had put it in the pocket of my shoulder but I achieved much more consistent results by placing the rifle high and on my collar bone. I was really impressed by the increase in accuracy and groups on the tikka t3x tac a1.

I also worked on pulling the gun into my shoulder. A hard part is knowing how much force to use as too little force causes a accuracy issues and too much force causes accuracy issues. Pull the gun back with the force similar to picking up a milk carton. But don’t pull. Tighten the bicep so it locks the rifle in place into the shoulder.

I also love tab gear bag a lot more than my previous bag. This one doesn’t move around and its harder to manipulate. This means it’s harder to throw off the accuracy of the tikka t3x tac a1 just from me doing something dumb. I also found myself not being able to use the thumb shelf. I thought it would be much more useful for consistency but I was wrong. I realized that my shots were being pushed by my thumb pushing the gun around as I engaged the trigger. I still like how the shelf gives me a solid anchor point for my thumb.

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