Are there any negative effects?

Ok,

Here is the closest I can get to answering the originol question.
At Tomball, some of the Benches have a pole right smack in the middle of the front of the bench. Your Rifles muzzle will be adjacent to this pole.
Three years ago, at the Gulf Coast Region 10-shot Unlimited, I drew one of the benches with a pole. The barrel of my Rail Gun was dead in the middle of that 5 inch diameter metal pole, with only about 2 inches of side clearance. Every time I fired, that thing rang like a bell.
I sort of complained at first, but that was the bench I drew, so that was that.
I sat down and shot a agg of .211, (five 10-shot groups), which I think is still a Gulf Coast Region 100 Unlimited Record. There were three sub .200 10-shot "screamers" in that agg.
Everybody was kidding me afterward, saying that I would never be allowed to sit by a pole again.
I can say that the pole had no detramental affect what so ever on the bullets exiting that barrel........jackie
 
Nothing?

The OP asked a legitimate question and some subsequently suggested it WOULD have an effect/cause problems. A reference was made to Mann's book that supposedly explains this further, so some here (including Mann) apparently think it is more than "nothing".


Jackie - sort of scratching my head how you could fire with

"The barrel of my Rail Gun ... dead in the middle of that 5 inch diameter metal pole, with only about 2 inches of side clearance."

Sounds like you fired through* the pole :confused:

In any case, the muzzle was not directly over the bench surface was it?

*Nice shooting anyway.

P.S. Could someone with a copy of Mann's book please tell us what it says about "plank shooting"?
 
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Originally Posted by Sonof A. Gunn:
Are some saying that firing a rifle with the muzzle a foot or less above a solid surface will effect the accuracy (or precision) of the gun in a negative way??

What about all those prone shooters and matches?? Also varmint shooters firing from prone?

How would this negatively effect shooting?

Quote Dick Grosbier:
"What about them, they know they have muzzle blast and they have always had it. When a person is firing off a bench backs up to where the muzzle is not past the end of the bench they may find they have effects from muzzle blast they have not been accustomed to."

Argue with Dick if you wish - he says there is an effect - I have had my doubts there is from the start.

P.S. Best posts from Tom D. and Randy J. so far - thanks.
 
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