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<blockquote data-quote="Calvin45" data-source="post: 2939322" data-attributes="member: 109862"><p>God bless you sir! Everyone should do this. Most of any skill I have as a shooter (and I'm by no means competitive) comes from high school and college summers at my folks farm having fun with dads old single shot COOEY and my RUGER 10/22. Thousands upon thousands of rounds fired. And useful in the real world field for hunting…often by late November here we have deep snow and you often won't have the luxury of taking a shot from prone (if you wish to keep your muzzle out of snow and be able to see your quarry). I've taken more shots in hunting from standing freehand or leaned up against a tree than I have from prone, off a bipod, or off any kind of rest. And that's the kind of shooting I was always doing with .22s at birds, cans, etc</p><p></p><p>Also fun and useful was shooting off the deck (leaned over the bbq, provided it wasn't lit) with that single shot (iron sights) at clumps of dirt or molehills on the hillside about 400-500 yards south of the house. If it had recently been cultivated or harvested and was dry out, you could see the dust puff up. I've never really had the opportunity to shoot further than 600 yards or so with anything, so doing this long range for a rimfire work was a ton of fun and you got to experience the time delay from shot to impact, a crazy amount of drop and wind deflection and learn how to compensate for that…so much fun. Affordable. And lots of learning and "muscle memory" from shooting so much.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Calvin45, post: 2939322, member: 109862"] God bless you sir! Everyone should do this. Most of any skill I have as a shooter (and I’m by no means competitive) comes from high school and college summers at my folks farm having fun with dads old single shot COOEY and my RUGER 10/22. Thousands upon thousands of rounds fired. And useful in the real world field for hunting…often by late November here we have deep snow and you often won’t have the luxury of taking a shot from prone (if you wish to keep your muzzle out of snow and be able to see your quarry). I’ve taken more shots in hunting from standing freehand or leaned up against a tree than I have from prone, off a bipod, or off any kind of rest. And that’s the kind of shooting I was always doing with .22s at birds, cans, etc Also fun and useful was shooting off the deck (leaned over the bbq, provided it wasn’t lit) with that single shot (iron sights) at clumps of dirt or molehills on the hillside about 400-500 yards south of the house. If it had recently been cultivated or harvested and was dry out, you could see the dust puff up. I’ve never really had the opportunity to shoot further than 600 yards or so with anything, so doing this long range for a rimfire work was a ton of fun and you got to experience the time delay from shot to impact, a crazy amount of drop and wind deflection and learn how to compensate for that…so much fun. Affordable. And lots of learning and “muscle memory” from shooting so much. [/QUOTE]
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