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December 25th, 2007  
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My guess is so the shooter can concentrate on the fundamentals of shooting, i.e. breathing, trigger squeeze, steady position, cheek/stock weld, and sight picture. If you are shooting at a small target at short range (to simulate a normal size target at long range), there are less effects that will decrease accuracy, so the only remaining factors are human and reflect true marksmanship; there is no excuse to miss other than an obvious malfunction, which, out of experience, happens very rarely in high-performance .22 rifles with good ammo.
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