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Barrel twist and length?
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<blockquote data-quote="benchracer" data-source="post: 1016475" data-attributes="member: 22069"><p>My point is this: There are a lot of deer hunters out there. Quite a few are decent to excellent woodsmen. Very few are rifleman. </p><p> </p><p> If a person doesn't truly understand their equipment, it doesn't really matter what shot that person takes. Their mentality isn't driven by shot selection. Rather, their mentality is driven by shallow knowledge. Like a person with poor vision, they have no idea what they are missing because they can't even perceive it.</p><p> </p><p>I think many of us tend to forget how ignorant the average hunter/shooter really is. A good friend of mine is a fantastic outdoorsman, far better in the woods than I am ever likely to be. But, he is someone who thinks that having a scope mounted and boresighted at the store means it doesn't need to be sighted in and thinks that bullets of the same weight have the same point of impact. He actually has decent shooting skills, but a poor understanding of his equipment. I have tried for years to convince him to put in some range time before hunting. He is one of those guys that hunts for four or five years from the same box of ammo and just sees range time as wasteful of both his time and ammo. He is frustratingly hard-headed about that. The trouble is, the woods are full of people like him.</p><p> </p><p>ETA: I was pretty ignorant when I entered the world of centerfire rifles and big game. I came from a family of bird hunters. The only rifle shooting I did was with a .22LR with iron sights. I worked to educate myself when I realized how poor my skills with a centerfire rifle truly were. It was a steep learning curve.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="benchracer, post: 1016475, member: 22069"] My point is this: There are a lot of deer hunters out there. Quite a few are decent to excellent woodsmen. Very few are rifleman. If a person doesn't truly understand their equipment, it doesn't really matter what shot that person takes. Their mentality isn't driven by shot selection. Rather, their mentality is driven by shallow knowledge. Like a person with poor vision, they have no idea what they are missing because they can't even perceive it. I think many of us tend to forget how ignorant the average hunter/shooter really is. A good friend of mine is a fantastic outdoorsman, far better in the woods than I am ever likely to be. But, he is someone who thinks that having a scope mounted and boresighted at the store means it doesn't need to be sighted in and thinks that bullets of the same weight have the same point of impact. He actually has decent shooting skills, but a poor understanding of his equipment. I have tried for years to convince him to put in some range time before hunting. He is one of those guys that hunts for four or five years from the same box of ammo and just sees range time as wasteful of both his time and ammo. He is frustratingly hard-headed about that. The trouble is, the woods are full of people like him. ETA: I was pretty ignorant when I entered the world of centerfire rifles and big game. I came from a family of bird hunters. The only rifle shooting I did was with a .22LR with iron sights. I worked to educate myself when I realized how poor my skills with a centerfire rifle truly were. It was a steep learning curve. [/QUOTE]
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