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<blockquote data-quote="Jud96" data-source="post: 1743712" data-attributes="member: 69478"><p>My Dad was always and still is one of the best shooters I've ever witnessed. Some of my earliest memories is of him teaching me how to shoot my old Stevens drop block .22 rifle. He constantly pushed safety and to aim small and hit small. Every time we went out it was my goal to try and match his shooting ability. He slowly transitioned me from 22s to high power rifles and the targets got smaller and harder to hit. We use to spend hours shooting and reloading for old military rifles and they all had iron sights of course. I never got interested in "sporting rifles" until he started taking me out and shooting them at long range. We shot long range a lot with open sights, but I really got hooked on shooting far with precision rifles when I could go from hitting a milk jug at 300 yards with open sights, to dang near taking the lid off with a scoped precision rifle. From then on I became obsessed with accuracy and precision rifles. </p><p></p><p>The year before Dad started teaching me to shoot far and build drop sheets and use my turrets for adjustments, is when I lost my first and only deer to date with a rifle. I was young and unfamiliar with actual ballistics and bullet drop. My Dad sat me up to watch a woods edge about 100 yards away. A buck stepped out at 300ish yards at the far end of the field. I wasn't good at estimating ranges and had no clue how much my bullet dropped. My Dad wasn't there to help, so when I aimed on that buck's shoulder, I actually hit him low and just clipped his chest. We tracked him for over a mile until we lost his trail and that's all it took for me to get serious and start learning my rifle and improving my skills. The following year I took a big bodied half rack at 250 yards (far for me at the time) with the same rifle, this time I was confident and knew how to make a clean, proper shot. Since then I have improved my rifles, skills, and knowledge on long range shooting and strive to be the best hunter and shooter I can be.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jud96, post: 1743712, member: 69478"] My Dad was always and still is one of the best shooters I’ve ever witnessed. Some of my earliest memories is of him teaching me how to shoot my old Stevens drop block .22 rifle. He constantly pushed safety and to aim small and hit small. Every time we went out it was my goal to try and match his shooting ability. He slowly transitioned me from 22s to high power rifles and the targets got smaller and harder to hit. We use to spend hours shooting and reloading for old military rifles and they all had iron sights of course. I never got interested in “sporting rifles” until he started taking me out and shooting them at long range. We shot long range a lot with open sights, but I really got hooked on shooting far with precision rifles when I could go from hitting a milk jug at 300 yards with open sights, to dang near taking the lid off with a scoped precision rifle. From then on I became obsessed with accuracy and precision rifles. The year before Dad started teaching me to shoot far and build drop sheets and use my turrets for adjustments, is when I lost my first and only deer to date with a rifle. I was young and unfamiliar with actual ballistics and bullet drop. My Dad sat me up to watch a woods edge about 100 yards away. A buck stepped out at 300ish yards at the far end of the field. I wasn’t good at estimating ranges and had no clue how much my bullet dropped. My Dad wasn’t there to help, so when I aimed on that buck’s shoulder, I actually hit him low and just clipped his chest. We tracked him for over a mile until we lost his trail and that’s all it took for me to get serious and start learning my rifle and improving my skills. The following year I took a big bodied half rack at 250 yards (far for me at the time) with the same rifle, this time I was confident and knew how to make a clean, proper shot. Since then I have improved my rifles, skills, and knowledge on long range shooting and strive to be the best hunter and shooter I can be. [/QUOTE]
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