I'm trying to find a load that shoots well in my new SA-35 Hi Power, and I'm not having much luck. It will shoot an acceptable (<3" at 25 yards) group occasionally, but more often one or two rounds won't even hit paper. I'm nearing 80, and not the shooter I was 20 years ago, so I got out some other 9mms and a .45 I always shot well to see if it could be some physical infirmity on my part. None of them shot as well as I remembered, but the worst fliers opened groups to around 5 or 6 inches, where many of the SA groups exceed 10.
I have tried using two-handed holds resting on sandbags, one-handed hold with the weak hand squeezing a bag under the butt and the barrel rested on other bags or some sort of padded commercial bench rest. The latter works fine with scoped silhouette guns, but short open sight pistols are a whole other deal.
I have good shooting glasses, and can see the sights clearly. A Ransom rest would be ideal but I don't have one. What do you guys find to be second-best?