Cold Weather Rimfire Accuracy?

[Bish1309]

So shivering is ok?

[bandit1250]

Forgetting about the firearm for a bit I've found that in cold weather my eye will tear up just a tad and my vision is better.

Maybe the better vision after your eye tears up will help making sure the fifth shot is right in there with the first four.

You have been reading my range reports.

Sir Henry I believe most members of our great forum read everything you put on here even if there is no reply.

[North Country Gal]

Shivering is not an issue as long as you shoot between the shivers. The trick is to time your shivers with your heartbeat and shoot between both. That's when you know you are a true cold weather shooter.

[Bish1309]

That's when you know you are a true cold weather shooter.

And the elusiveness continues.

[CT_Shooter]

Shivering is not an issue as long as you shoot between the shivers. The trick is to time your shivers with your heartbeat and shoot between both. That's when you know you are a true cold weather shooter.

This is why I will never be more than an old, mediocre, fun loving, yet happy shooter. I started this hobby much too late to be any more.

Timing is such an important element in marksmanship and I'm too impatient and ill-equipped to monitor my shivering timbers, my gasping breaths, and pounding heartbeats in order to take aim and squeeze the trigger at that precise moment of quiet synchronicity. I don't even try. I just aim and pull the trigger with no thought for what my heart and lungs or shivering bones are doing.

I do hope to get better at it, but I've posted lots of targets here that demonstrate I was really only having fun.

[North Country Gal]

If you are having fun, that qualifies you as a real shooter in my book. As for the shivering thing, there are times when it is important not to take me too seriously. Next week I'll discuss how to throw your gun, accurately, at the target if you can't hit with bullets.

[ditto1958]

Shivering is not an issue as long as you shoot between the shivers. The trick is to time your shivers with your heartbeat and shoot between both. That's when you know you are a true cold weather shooter.

Agreed. That's also why it's important to drink coffee with lots of caffeine before and during a trip to the range. The coffee makes you shaky, and that cancels out the shivers.

[North Country Gal]

Shivering is not an issue as long as you shoot between the shivers. The trick is to time your shivers with your heartbeat and shoot between both. That's when you know you are a true cold weather shooter.

Agreed. That's also why it's important to drink coffee with lots of caffeine before and during a trip to the range. The coffee makes you shaky, and that cancels out the shivers.

Love your thinking. Another one of many great reasons to be a coffee addict.

[Sir Henry]

So now I'm wondering what is the coldest you have ever shot in. I have been to the range when its zero but never below that. Shooting isn't the problem when its that cold but rather loading the firearms. Plus at zero it is so cold even the shivers freeze. That last frozen shiver when it thaws out is something.

My friend in Alaska has fired his M4 down to minus thirty. He puts a special artic oil on everything. He is in the Army and he is in small arms repair.

[ditto1958]

Where I shoot, the firing line is covered and is sheltered from the wind, which makes a huge difference. As long as you are dressed properly, it doesn't feel cold. There also is a heated building with plenty of hot coffee. We are supposed to have some sub-zero weather soon, so perhaps I will be able to report on how it goes.

The local culture in my area requires a good bit of stoicism, so complaining about weather conditions is not generally allowed.

[North Country Gal]

I've been hunting and shooting at minus 20, but those were calm days with plenty of sunshine, so not as bad as one might think. Even the slightest wind, though, can make a huge difference at such a temp.

In the old days, we had to take great care as to lubrication and type of lubricants, but most of the modern lubes are actually pretty good even below zero, now.