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<blockquote data-quote="R. Cram" data-source="post: 2864964" data-attributes="member: 116633"><p>I think shooting off a bench is a waste of ammunition and barrel life unless your hobby is going to be bench rest shooting. I have never seen a bench at a military range and I am sure not going to pack a bench out in the field hunting. almost all hunters will sight in off a bench and never shoot any other position and are very dismall shots. My range here at my home does not have a bench and to check loads I shoot off my elbow with a sling. Untill I started shooting highpower I thought slings were for carrying a rifle and I'll bet 99 out of 100 hunters have never seen them used to shoot. the old saying is hunters don't shoot and shooters don't hunt is true all to often. This new infatuation with shooting long range hunting should not be used by 99 % of hunters, they will not spend the time learning what the wind looks like and how to compensate for it they think you just put in the come ups and make long shots but as any one who has shot a lot at long ranges the wind is the whole game and here I have never been out hunting without some wind. I have tryed many times to get people around here to come to a match so someone will be pulling the target after each shot so the shooter can see the wind effect for each shot as he fires usually the wind correction is different for each shot as you get past 600 yds. any body wanting to take advantage of this oppurtunity there will be a match the second Saturday in September in Vale, oregon near Boise, Idaho which will be F class or NRA highpower prone 20 shots at 600, 20 at 800, 20 at 900, and 20 at 1000. I feel sorry for guides as I have tryed to help buddies get on a deer and made some good runs on them only to have them miss, I bet the average hunter couldn't hit a pie plate 3 times in a row in a field position at 100 yds. Once while antelope hunting we had one of us needing to fill his tag so a farmer gave us permission to hunt his place. Out in a field was a buck about 150 yds away with a loafing shed at the edge of the field, we crawled up on the sloping roof and crept to the edge where he could lay down and shoot and not be seen ,we were urging him to shoot and he would and miss we would say shoot again and he would and miss again this went on for about 7 or 8 shots and the buck just stayed there, I was just about to jump off the roof to get more ammo when one of his shots accidently hit the buck in the neck. The farmer came by in about 5 minutes and said I see you got one most people can't hit them, he probably heard all the shooting.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="R. Cram, post: 2864964, member: 116633"] I think shooting off a bench is a waste of ammunition and barrel life unless your hobby is going to be bench rest shooting. I have never seen a bench at a military range and I am sure not going to pack a bench out in the field hunting. almost all hunters will sight in off a bench and never shoot any other position and are very dismall shots. My range here at my home does not have a bench and to check loads I shoot off my elbow with a sling. Untill I started shooting highpower I thought slings were for carrying a rifle and I'll bet 99 out of 100 hunters have never seen them used to shoot. the old saying is hunters don't shoot and shooters don't hunt is true all to often. This new infatuation with shooting long range hunting should not be used by 99 % of hunters, they will not spend the time learning what the wind looks like and how to compensate for it they think you just put in the come ups and make long shots but as any one who has shot a lot at long ranges the wind is the whole game and here I have never been out hunting without some wind. I have tryed many times to get people around here to come to a match so someone will be pulling the target after each shot so the shooter can see the wind effect for each shot as he fires usually the wind correction is different for each shot as you get past 600 yds. any body wanting to take advantage of this oppurtunity there will be a match the second Saturday in September in Vale, oregon near Boise, Idaho which will be F class or NRA highpower prone 20 shots at 600, 20 at 800, 20 at 900, and 20 at 1000. I feel sorry for guides as I have tryed to help buddies get on a deer and made some good runs on them only to have them miss, I bet the average hunter couldn't hit a pie plate 3 times in a row in a field position at 100 yds. Once while antelope hunting we had one of us needing to fill his tag so a farmer gave us permission to hunt his place. Out in a field was a buck about 150 yds away with a loafing shed at the edge of the field, we crawled up on the sloping roof and crept to the edge where he could lay down and shoot and not be seen ,we were urging him to shoot and he would and miss we would say shoot again and he would and miss again this went on for about 7 or 8 shots and the buck just stayed there, I was just about to jump off the roof to get more ammo when one of his shots accidently hit the buck in the neck. The farmer came by in about 5 minutes and said I see you got one most people can't hit them, he probably heard all the shooting. [/QUOTE]
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