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<blockquote data-quote="RT2506" data-source="post: 953250" data-attributes="member: 10178"><p>Yes it takes a lot of practice to shoot off hand. What I count as my best game shot ever was off hand. My hunting buddy kept seeing a nice buck crossing a power line cut on some property that we leased in a place that we did not have a tree stand. In this county you have to be at least 8ft off the ground to use a rifle. The area had been clear cut logged and there were no trees except this little about 4 inch around the base tree with some vines growing around it. I took the top section of a ladder stand and leaned it on this little tree and had to stand up on the stand. I set it up to where I could rest off the little tree side when the deer crossed the power line cut where he had been crossing. Yes you guessed it, he did not cross there. I had been shooting my M1 Garand in across the course matches so my off hand was decent. I was using a Rem 700 in 7 Rem mag with Leupold 3-9x50 scope. The deer came out into the power line cut to my hard left when I was set up for him to be on my right. I had to turn almost all the way around to my left to get a shot. The buck was about 60 yards away. While trying to slowly turn toward him the V-notch in the plywood top of the stand that was against the tree made this CREEK sound as I shifted my weight and the buck looked right at me and took off. He ran back into the cut over where piled up laps etc. blocked my view but it had been really dry and I could hear him running in the leaves and he turned and was coming back toward the power line further down the line. There was a dip in the power line cut 300 yards away and I could just see his antlers above the top of the dip as he ran across. When he almost got to the other side he came up out of the dip and stopped broad side and looked back toward me. I guess he was trying to figure out what made that CREEK sound. I got into my best off hand stance and started my counter clock wise circle and when the cross hairs were coming from 8 o'clock toward 6 o'clock I started my trigger squeeze and the rifle went BOOM when the cross hairs were at 6 o'clock in the center of his front shoulder. The bullet sounded POP and when I recovered from the recoil there was no deer in sight. Stepped it off and it was 300 of my long legged paces. Found the 8 point buck just inside the woods with a perfect dead center hole in his front shoulder. I had the rifle zeroed dead on at 300 yards. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /> I have killed deer at much further yardage but not off hand.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RT2506, post: 953250, member: 10178"] Yes it takes a lot of practice to shoot off hand. What I count as my best game shot ever was off hand. My hunting buddy kept seeing a nice buck crossing a power line cut on some property that we leased in a place that we did not have a tree stand. In this county you have to be at least 8ft off the ground to use a rifle. The area had been clear cut logged and there were no trees except this little about 4 inch around the base tree with some vines growing around it. I took the top section of a ladder stand and leaned it on this little tree and had to stand up on the stand. I set it up to where I could rest off the little tree side when the deer crossed the power line cut where he had been crossing. Yes you guessed it, he did not cross there. I had been shooting my M1 Garand in across the course matches so my off hand was decent. I was using a Rem 700 in 7 Rem mag with Leupold 3-9x50 scope. The deer came out into the power line cut to my hard left when I was set up for him to be on my right. I had to turn almost all the way around to my left to get a shot. The buck was about 60 yards away. While trying to slowly turn toward him the V-notch in the plywood top of the stand that was against the tree made this CREEK sound as I shifted my weight and the buck looked right at me and took off. He ran back into the cut over where piled up laps etc. blocked my view but it had been really dry and I could hear him running in the leaves and he turned and was coming back toward the power line further down the line. There was a dip in the power line cut 300 yards away and I could just see his antlers above the top of the dip as he ran across. When he almost got to the other side he came up out of the dip and stopped broad side and looked back toward me. I guess he was trying to figure out what made that CREEK sound. I got into my best off hand stance and started my counter clock wise circle and when the cross hairs were coming from 8 o'clock toward 6 o'clock I started my trigger squeeze and the rifle went BOOM when the cross hairs were at 6 o'clock in the center of his front shoulder. The bullet sounded POP and when I recovered from the recoil there was no deer in sight. Stepped it off and it was 300 of my long legged paces. Found the 8 point buck just inside the woods with a perfect dead center hole in his front shoulder. I had the rifle zeroed dead on at 300 yards. :D I have killed deer at much further yardage but not off hand. [/QUOTE]
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