Card direction

emollett

Bit of a boring question but here goes:
What direction do you tend to shoot a 10 bull card in?
In DURC, as far as i remember everyone did two Z's, and i never questioned it. However, since joining another club, each time i've gone down to shoot i've had a different method sold to me as better, including backwards N's, a Z then a backwards Z, and traveling all the way along the top 4, then down to the middle on on the right, then travelling all the way back along the bottom to the left hand middle one.
Essentially, i want to pick one and stick with it, with a good enough reason to back it up. Any advice? Presumably the aim is to get as little shuffling around as possible, but again, each persons method seems to be backed up by the same argument, that there is less movement that way.

Sparks

I (back when I shot more smallbore than air rifle) used to shoot the back-to-back Z's but that was just habit and trying to keep the target-to-target position changes minimal.

The argument for the two Z approach wasn't minimising movement, btw, but that you'd align your gross position on the center target on each half of the card and then fine-tune to the outer targets; and the backward N's sought to minimise side-to-side position changes while ignoring having to do larger vertical changes, and the row-by-row did the opposite, trading fewer vertical changes for far more horizontal changes.

To be honest, I think it's not really a huge thing Some patterns suit some people, and some people don't suit any particular pattern well. Put in enough training time and any of them will work because you just wind up shooting ten individual shots instead of shot 6 of 10 always being a pain because it's in the darker corner of the card (stupid range lights) or whatever

Sparks

For those who don't know, by the way, these are the cards in question:

emollett

I just remembered another one mentioned doing the largest possible ammount of movements between bulls, to force proper repositioning each time rather than getting sloppy and just pulling across.
I've just realised i could shoot my initials quite nicely. Could go with that for the novelty.

Sparks

Ha! the 'signature method'

IRLConor

I shoot a ZZ pattern.

I tried a bunch of different patterns and found no discernable difference.

I just stick to shooting a ZZ pattern to avoid the kind of 100s like Sparks showed above!

It wasn't me!

Hehe, nice idea. Personally, I just go with back to back Zs typically, but occasionally, or if I'm shooting a few cards in a row, I'll mix it up, keeps the mind working. They all work though. These days I shoot feck all cards, just shoot groups for the most part. Nice to see you're getting some shooting though. Hope you get the chance to stick with it.