mchughcb
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Half kill shots? Okay then, you stick to shooting Charlie off sticks at 300 metres with night vision and let me stick to hunting.
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Half kill shots? Okay then, you stick to shooting Charlie off sticks at 300 metres with night vision and let me stick to hunting.
John Gryphon
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geez he was using subs ffs,top job @ 80 yards.
Below is a sambar hind,she would weigh 340 lbs or thereabouts. Now the pic was taken with the lens at 100 mm and gives an idea of what you should be able to do off the shoulder you blokes. Crosshairs on shoulder and squeeze.
And this pic the lens is out to 400mm same sight picture as with your scope wound up to 12x if you have that power. You will see she is offering a good target to kill off the shoulder.
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In all the years I owned and shot both an air rifle and 22 rimfire, prior to purchasing a centrefire, it never occured to me to use even a single stick. From the moment I strarted to use one my marksmanship when down the pan and has never resurfaced.
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Woodsmoke
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foxdropper
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So I guess those who can do it arnt on here because all I see are spray and pray .
Disqualified!
I thought you’d probably come up with an excuse like that.Fence is in the way
Still, it is rather good shooting by the way
Woodsmoke
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Think it's time you wound your neck in a bit, cupcake
Hereford
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The OP was only hypothetical practice, but something rather useful I believe. I can recall a couple of times personally when the sticks have been abandoned after cycling quickly for a follow-up and the animal has run 30-40yds or so before going down.
There really is no issue with folk practicing for this eventuality and I cannot understand some of the negativity - no-one's advocating 200yd offhand headshots, for goodness sake.
Anyway, the sun's out and my youngest has an inset day, so we're going to take the air rifles and walk up some hedgerows on our fields - lets see if he can bag a nice rabbit for the dog with his HW57 over open sights.
There really is no issue with folk practicing for this eventuality and I cannot understand some of the negativity - no-one's advocating 200yd offhand headshots, for goodness sake.
Anyway, the sun's out and my youngest has an inset day, so we're going to take the air rifles and walk up some hedgerows on our fields - lets see if he can bag a nice rabbit for the dog with his HW57 over open sights.
kenbro
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Have a great day, quality time
tikka_madras
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Lucky shot
Had me eyes closed
Ah, the old “charging buffalo” technique
We don’t practice it because it’s difficult because we are lazy.
There is film clip of some Austrian? Prince shooting freehand pigs with a sauer...bit like John Wayne shooting redskins. On the whole for most of us it’s fictitious skill level but really and truly most stalkers bump more deer in woodland than they draw crosshairs on off a bipod or even quad sticks.
There is film clip of some Austrian? Prince shooting freehand pigs with a sauer...bit like John Wayne shooting redskins. On the whole for most of us it’s fictitious skill level but really and truly most stalkers bump more deer in woodland than they draw crosshairs on off a bipod or even quad sticks.
This thread only needs the input of Sauer90 for a full house!
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Second only to the more advance 'charging buff' technique which is shooting wildly over shoulder whilst trying to climb a knob thorn tree
I had another look at those ''terribly wild shots'' placed in the black by Mchughcb with his 9.3
Curiously all but 2 were sufficient to pass the 100m prone section of DSC 1 firearms test
Curiously all but 2 were sufficient to pass the 100m prone section of DSC 1 firearms test
Why is it that we get one poster who is absolutely against a form of hunting that has been around since before the notion of killing animals for sport? It’s like this with bow hunting. We threw rocks, then spears, now bullets at animals we may or may not intend to eat. Personally I grew up with shotguns as well as rifles and I will have shot hundreds and hundreds times more shotgun shells than rifle bullets before the age of 21. Never shot 12ga in any other position then standing up. Usually trying to stay standing up in the back of a Land Rover.
Shooting off hand is just a normal part of doing what we do surely? All the normal rules apply like having a well fitting rifle that is of the right weight to swing onto the animal without waving around like a conductors baton. I don’t like a very light rifle for this kind of shooting, and prefer something in the 9lb range inc optics. Also agree with the comments above about instinctive shots. I don’t generally have a problem shooting game with one shot offhand (usually.308), but if I miss with the first shot the second shot feels a lot harder.
Shooting off hand is just a normal part of doing what we do surely? All the normal rules apply like having a well fitting rifle that is of the right weight to swing onto the animal without waving around like a conductors baton. I don’t like a very light rifle for this kind of shooting, and prefer something in the 9lb range inc optics. Also agree with the comments above about instinctive shots. I don’t generally have a problem shooting game with one shot offhand (usually.308), but if I miss with the first shot the second shot feels a lot harder.
mchughcb
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I may have being praying not to spray them on film. The ole time limit gets you focused alright.
mchughcb
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If you hunt in wood land very slowly then 50-70m is about when deer start hear you. So really need to get ready to point and shoot. Down here we have the three second rule if you are actively stalking in thick forest which is about how long before you see the deer and it bolts. So no time to set up any sticks.
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