Thanks for the link DD. Lots of good info. Pretty much confirms what I suspected; There is no substitute for practice. I'm pretty fortunate to have a farm with 1100 acres to work with. I have an enclosed bench and a 500 yd range with silhouette's, steel backstops with spot targets, wind indicators, yardage markers, clanger / spinner targets, sand trap for cans and plastic bottles etc. I also have a 1.25 mile woods trail for archery and I think I'll start putting up plinker targets for .22.

Rost, sounds like you hit on a little Zen thing, training the eye to see the target and crosshairs and block out the movement. I use a similar technique to swing a golf club. I going to start putting it to work on the range. Gotta learn to "be the bullet".

I just picked up a Marlin 39A .22 it's a little closer to weight of my A-Bolt than my 10-22.

Looking Fwd. to a fun summer of practice!

Thanks guys