Re: Tips for better shooting
If your rifle was bouncing left or right during recoil, then you were not at your Natural Point Of Aim. Most people find their NPOA is with their body at an angle, but you can draw a line down the barrel through their hip and ankle. You may have had too much angle. If you are in your NPOA and your (right shooters) right hip is slightly elevated as your right leg is bent, recoil is properly absorbed and the rifle goes straight up and straight back down ON TARGET. Another common mistake is people do not shift their entire body to adjust their aim left or right. They get lazy and cheat. They move the rifle instead. Now they are not in their NPOA.
To check NPOA, close your eyes, relax, breathe 3 times, then open your eyes. The rifle will have moved if you were not in your NPOA. Keep re adjusting your body until you find your NPOA, then practice, practice, and practice it until any other position just does not feel correct (because it is not correct). A more advanced check is to actually shoot 4 shots with your eyes closed. If the first shoot is not next to the other 3, you were not in NPOA. It is common for a shooter to have the first shot on target and the next 3 to be somewhere else, but in a group. That group was actually in the NPOA. This exercise shows the shooter that his body position relative to NPOA needs work.