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<blockquote data-quote="Playtimefun" data-source="post: 1597010" data-attributes="member: 103742"><p>I do a lot of highway travelling up here to various road construction projects (engineer by trade) and there is a gun in the truck on every trip.</p><p></p><p>Sometimes it's just a 22 or 17 but quite often the 204, 308, etc etc etc etc but I like to try and stop someplace and take a few (or a lot of) shots here and there. You pick a rock out in the field. Take a guess without the range finder and take a poke or two at it. Then range it and see how close you were. </p><p></p><p>Sometimes you just have to make sure that coyote doesn't have to take a **** for a week after a few not so well placed shots. </p><p></p><p>The guys who taught me how to hunt were old school in that there was a gun ALWAYS in the truck and they were always shooting but very very seldomly from a bench unless sighting in a rifle. But those 2 old timers could frigging shoot!!!! They were shooting 500+ yards back in the early 80s. </p><p></p><p>I think there's so much more to just getting out to a field, not the range and just having the trigger time on a "not set" distance. Not the "200 yard" range... someplace where youre taking that 300 or 500 yard shot on that rock. The 800 yard shot at a clump of dirt and you develop that memory of different positions in the field and how to get set... how to think out your shot... and you get used to that push and if you can see where the bullet impacts. Then when your out hunting and you're carrying that magnum (of course!!!) and that animal shows itself, all your thinking is... I can make this shot and you get into the same steps that you did when practicing. Amazing how easily and accurately that shot comes with practice especially when you challenge yourself outside of a gun range.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Playtimefun, post: 1597010, member: 103742"] I do a lot of highway travelling up here to various road construction projects (engineer by trade) and there is a gun in the truck on every trip. Sometimes it’s just a 22 or 17 but quite often the 204, 308, etc etc etc etc but I like to try and stop someplace and take a few (or a lot of) shots here and there. You pick a rock out in the field. Take a guess without the range finder and take a poke or two at it. Then range it and see how close you were. Sometimes you just have to make sure that coyote doesn’t have to take a **** for a week after a few not so well placed shots. The guys who taught me how to hunt were old school in that there was a gun ALWAYS in the truck and they were always shooting but very very seldomly from a bench unless sighting in a rifle. But those 2 old timers could frigging shoot!!!! They were shooting 500+ yards back in the early 80s. I think there’s so much more to just getting out to a field, not the range and just having the trigger time on a “not set” distance. Not the “200 yard” range... someplace where youre taking that 300 or 500 yard shot on that rock. The 800 yard shot at a clump of dirt and you develop that memory of different positions in the field and how to get set... how to think out your shot... and you get used to that push and if you can see where the bullet impacts. Then when your out hunting and you’re carrying that magnum (of course!!!) and that animal shows itself, all your thinking is... I can make this shot and you get into the same steps that you did when practicing. Amazing how easily and accurately that shot comes with practice especially when you challenge yourself outside of a gun range. [/QUOTE]
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