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<blockquote data-quote="Playtimefun" data-source="post: 3057684" data-attributes="member: 103742"><p>Well... I KNOW that I can't that's for sure. BUT... it also amazes me the guys who can sit and shoot paper all day long. After a rifle is sighted in... sure a few more just to confirm... maybe shoot a grouping or two on a new gun if I haven't before for a load... but I'm BORED POOPLESS!!! My range doesn't allow you to put clay targets or balloons, etc. So the range to me is where I go sight in a rifle. Take some shots out to 300 yards (max). Where I practice is a few big fields where the landowners let me shoot and I just pull up to a spot off the grid road... pick a rock out there anywhere from 100 yards to 800 or more (one field is over 1800 yards and both are in hilly countryside), range it and fire. Maybe I fire 1, 2 or 3 shots at one rock then go to the next. I do the same thing in gravel pits as i work on the engineering side of road construction. Rocks or spurts of grass on a pile. You learn really quickly what your capable of freehand versus with a rest and how consistent you can be. Hence I now hunt with a single (1 post) rest with me on every walk and that's for the short shots. I'll bring a bipod that I have mounts set up for on my longer range guns. Even when I'm out deer or moose hunting... If I see a coyote... even if he's 800 yards out there... I'm taking a crack at him. A friend can't believe I'll burn up 2-3 rounds of expensive ammo at a coyote that starts at 400 yards away and I will fire away untill I can't see him anymore. But he still talks about the day that I almost hit a sitting coyote at over 800 yards. His exact words before I pulled the trigger were "why waste the ammo... you'll never come close" It was offhand leaning against the side of the truck and yes.. it was fluky as heck but I almost hit his tail as he sat there. But to me... it's training. Then I shot twice more at him until he was like 1400 yards away (nowhere close) and my friend watching and ****ing himself laughing. He said that coyote wont have to take a schite for a week!!!</p><p></p><p>Unfortunately... I can say that I have made a number of shots on game that I should have NEVER attempted and missed shots that were the equivalent of the infamous "1 foot" putt in golf. As I get older... it seems harder to get in the trigger time and I KNOW... that when I'm practicing consistently... the confidence to make an ACCURATE shot is huge. But when I'm not... maybe the "arrogance" of I can make that... takes over more, but if I see an animal... my first thought NOW... is can I sneak/drive in closer or will they walk my way for a shot versus shoot them now. A perfect example one year was having 30-378 for moose in the farmlands expecting to shoot across a quarter section if necessary but I wound up shooting it at 30 yards.</p><p></p><p>I will say that there is something about shooting at an animal that gets me "zeroed in" I am so intent on the point on the animal, etc. That I know I actually become better then when I'm on the range. Watching the bullet hit in the scope (on a few of my guns i love that moment). BUT... a friends son will outshoot him and I EVERY DAY on the range (and badly) yet he somehow has a super tough time actually hitting an animal.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Playtimefun, post: 3057684, member: 103742"] Well... I KNOW that I can't that's for sure. BUT... it also amazes me the guys who can sit and shoot paper all day long. After a rifle is sighted in... sure a few more just to confirm... maybe shoot a grouping or two on a new gun if I haven't before for a load... but I'm BORED POOPLESS!!! My range doesn't allow you to put clay targets or balloons, etc. So the range to me is where I go sight in a rifle. Take some shots out to 300 yards (max). Where I practice is a few big fields where the landowners let me shoot and I just pull up to a spot off the grid road... pick a rock out there anywhere from 100 yards to 800 or more (one field is over 1800 yards and both are in hilly countryside), range it and fire. Maybe I fire 1, 2 or 3 shots at one rock then go to the next. I do the same thing in gravel pits as i work on the engineering side of road construction. Rocks or spurts of grass on a pile. You learn really quickly what your capable of freehand versus with a rest and how consistent you can be. Hence I now hunt with a single (1 post) rest with me on every walk and that's for the short shots. I'll bring a bipod that I have mounts set up for on my longer range guns. Even when I'm out deer or moose hunting... If I see a coyote... even if he's 800 yards out there... I'm taking a crack at him. A friend can't believe I'll burn up 2-3 rounds of expensive ammo at a coyote that starts at 400 yards away and I will fire away untill I can't see him anymore. But he still talks about the day that I almost hit a sitting coyote at over 800 yards. His exact words before I pulled the trigger were "why waste the ammo... you'll never come close" It was offhand leaning against the side of the truck and yes.. it was fluky as heck but I almost hit his tail as he sat there. But to me... it's training. Then I shot twice more at him until he was like 1400 yards away (nowhere close) and my friend watching and ****ing himself laughing. He said that coyote wont have to take a schite for a week!!! Unfortunately... I can say that I have made a number of shots on game that I should have NEVER attempted and missed shots that were the equivalent of the infamous "1 foot" putt in golf. As I get older... it seems harder to get in the trigger time and I KNOW... that when I'm practicing consistently... the confidence to make an ACCURATE shot is huge. But when I'm not... maybe the "arrogance" of I can make that... takes over more, but if I see an animal... my first thought NOW... is can I sneak/drive in closer or will they walk my way for a shot versus shoot them now. A perfect example one year was having 30-378 for moose in the farmlands expecting to shoot across a quarter section if necessary but I wound up shooting it at 30 yards. I will say that there is something about shooting at an animal that gets me "zeroed in" I am so intent on the point on the animal, etc. That I know I actually become better then when I'm on the range. Watching the bullet hit in the scope (on a few of my guns i love that moment). BUT... a friends son will outshoot him and I EVERY DAY on the range (and badly) yet he somehow has a super tough time actually hitting an animal. [/QUOTE]
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