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The Basics, Starting Out
Extending Your Comfortable Effective Range
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<blockquote data-quote="FearNoWind" data-source="post: 1037626" data-attributes="member: 50867"><p>For my students, I'd start with the list of recommendations posted by Browning. I also endorse the ideas expressed by kbaerg.</p><p><strong>Hunters need to make a distinction between target shooting and hunting; two very different disciplines.</strong></p><p>For extending the hunter's confidence in personal effective range, use an 8 or 10 inch target (I prefer 8) at 100 yards. When you can hit that consistently (10 out of 10 shots) move it to 150 yards and go through the same drill. Every time you achieve your goal of 10 hits on target out of 10 shots fired, move it out another fifty yards.</p><p>Do that for every position you expect to use in the field. My bones won't allow me to fire from kneeling position and I am useless at off-hand, so I'm limited to sitting or prone. If field conditions don't support sitting or prone I simply don't take the shot.</p><p>Exercises done at home would include the drill of standing with the rifle slung over the shoulder or held as it might be in the field, moving into the shooting position and bringing the rifle to the shoulder into shooting position and on target. Do that without dry firing.</p><p>When you can do that repeatedly, bringing the rifle to the shoulder in one smooth movement without having to readjust the rifle, you're ready to add the dry firing element.</p><p>Remember to triple check the rifle to make sure it's unloaded, leave any ammunition in another room and away from your practice area, check the chamber with every change in position to make sure it's unloaded. When finished practicing, leave the rifle unloaded in storage.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FearNoWind, post: 1037626, member: 50867"] For my students, I'd start with the list of recommendations posted by Browning. I also endorse the ideas expressed by kbaerg. [B]Hunters need to make a distinction between target shooting and hunting; two very different disciplines.[/B] For extending the hunter's confidence in personal effective range, use an 8 or 10 inch target (I prefer 8) at 100 yards. When you can hit that consistently (10 out of 10 shots) move it to 150 yards and go through the same drill. Every time you achieve your goal of 10 hits on target out of 10 shots fired, move it out another fifty yards. Do that for every position you expect to use in the field. My bones won't allow me to fire from kneeling position and I am useless at off-hand, so I'm limited to sitting or prone. If field conditions don't support sitting or prone I simply don't take the shot. Exercises done at home would include the drill of standing with the rifle slung over the shoulder or held as it might be in the field, moving into the shooting position and bringing the rifle to the shoulder into shooting position and on target. Do that without dry firing. When you can do that repeatedly, bringing the rifle to the shoulder in one smooth movement without having to readjust the rifle, you're ready to add the dry firing element. Remember to triple check the rifle to make sure it's unloaded, leave any ammunition in another room and away from your practice area, check the chamber with every change in position to make sure it's unloaded. When finished practicing, leave the rifle unloaded in storage. [/QUOTE]
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