Short denim shorts and a bikini top too much to hope for?

This weekend I'll be doing some firearms training, long range rifle to be exact, and my student happens to be a pretty hot blonde; You can see her here in this image taken the last time I took her for some shooting lessons. Note that awesome trigger discipline.

On that occasion we were working on improving some basic shooting skills like trigger-pull and breathing technique's and I'd introduced some more technical concepts essential to getting a shooter stretching their range and accuracy. We'd discussed parallax, windage and elevation, calling the wind, the importance of environmental factors to a long range shot and touched on the complex calculations required to bring everything together into an accurate long range shot. On the day she was sending rounds out to 788m (861 yards) with consistency on a 45cm diameter target (That's about 18 inches or approximately the width of a person's chest).

Of course there's a great many elements that have to come together to make a shot like that and to be able to do it first time, every time, takes a lot of practice: Both live and dry fire with the firearm, the ability to call the wind expertly, correct breathing and trigger-pull, precisely loaded ammunition (which I make myself for consistency) and obviously the correct equipment. I can typically get a person shooting out to around 800m on their first day simply by telling them what to do, but for those who want to actually learn the skills for themselves it takes a lot longer. That's what we are working on together this weekend; The hot blonde and I...It's going to be hot this weekend too so...Hoping she wears some short denim shorts and a bikini top...

The rifle being used here is a Tikka T3 in a .308 calibre. It sits bedded in a GRS stock and the glass is a Nightforce ATACR 5-25x56 with an MOA reticle. The rifle is muzzle-braked with a custom-made brake and sits on an Atlas Bipod. It's a decent set up although the recoil is fairly heavy for one starting out. Fortunately my student has shot it quite a lot at closer ranges, 100m-300m and so understands how to manage the recoil. The ammunition is hand-loaded Sierra 168gr HPBT with muzzle velocity of 2850fps (feet per second).

The image below shows the sight picture looking through the scope. It was taken on a different day to the last training day however sits in the same shooting position and looks at the same target. You can see the target sitting in the middle of the scope on a frame. It is white with a pink dot painted in the middle. That's what the shooter sees at 788m. If you look closely you'll note the picture around the target is a little blurry. That's the mirage. As one's skills get better and better the mirage can be used to gauge wind direction and speed. This is one method I use to make accurate wind calls with a +/- 1 mile/h accuracy. Shooting with mirage like that can be very difficult as it moves the target (optically, not physically) and the speed of the wind depends on how much. It makes precision shots quite difficult.

Anyway, that's more advanced stuff and we won't be going into that on the weekend. The goal for the weekend is repeatable accuracy at 1000m (1093 yards) on a 1.5MOA sized target. That's 15 inches in diameter at 1000m. (38 cm in diameter). An impact will be called if the round lands anywhere on that target and I'll be looking for a 75% strike-rate as bench mark and suspect she'll shoot better than that.

A lot of what we do on the weekend will revolve around calling the wind and a nice shooting technique; That's always on the program. I have 150 rounds made up for the day and expect most of them to be sent down range. I'll take a couple of other rifles as well so once my student is sending the .308 rounds accurately I'll swap her over to my 6mm culling rifle which has a much flatter trajectory. That will make the impacts a little easier to get provided the technique is maintained. There's way less recoil too.

We'll be lunching picnic-style at the shooting location, a private property not a rifle range, which will be nice. I love being out in the countryside and to have this hottie-student with me makes it even better. I'm planning some awesome bread rolls filled with all sorts of yummy stuff and some soda's and vanilla yoghurt for after; Healthy, but yum! So, I'm really hoping my student plans ahead for the warm weather and breaks out some short shorts and a bikini top...OK, the bikini top might be too much to hope for but maybe a small tank top?...It may make it difficult for me to concentrate but I'll battle on...Somehow. 😂

All photo's here belong to me...As does the hottie, my lovely wife Faith.