"Tuck the stock in tight to your shoulder, move your head forward until you have a good sight picture with no black around the edges. Take a deep breath, let half of it out, hold the rest, and slowly squeeze the trigger, while keeping the crosshairs steady where you want the bullet to go." My son's best friend, Mason, was sitting at my sighting-in table, his lanky frame folded up like a pretzel, with his arms wrapped around my Remington Model 788 .222 as if it were going to try to escape.