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Post by 76chevy on Apr 5, 2017 18:24:54 GMT -5
and yes I shoot during the season too. Less but still consistently to be sure nothing got bumped. I want to be able to hit what I aim at and know my limits. Respect the animals I hunt too much to accept anything less.
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Post by span870 on Apr 5, 2017 20:45:26 GMT -5
Night before throw a couple of rounds or arrows at the target. Best out of three in a pie plate I'm good to go.
When I used to deer hunt I shot my bow year round. Thousands of shots a year. Usually 75-100 a night. Just loved shooting it. Once I got good at 60-70 yards that is all I shot. It was a blast shooting that distance at a target with a bow. Went through ALOT of arrows in a year. They sure ain't as cheap as the old XX75's were.
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Post by esshup on Apr 5, 2017 22:42:25 GMT -5
The deer rifle, muzzleloader and slug gun? Rifles 2 to verify that zero is still on. One at 100, one at 300. Slug gun (if needed for a draw hunt) as little as possible to verify that the scope hasn't moved. Same with the x-bow, one at 20, one at 50 to check the vari-zone scope and I call it good unless it didn't hit where it was supposed to.
I hand load for all except slug gun and x-bow, so I know the shells are the same from year to year. I have the rifles dialed in so they are shooting around 1/2 moa, so I don't need to shoot groups if they hit what I am aiming at the first time.
I vow to shoot more .22 LR 60g Aguilar Sub Sonic rounds this year out to 200 yds to get better at judging the wind.
BUT, I will shoot hundreds and hundreds of rounds during the year from 100-350 yds here at the house and I will shoot a lot further if I go to the range. I have the basics down - I'd shoot around 500 rounds a week when I was on the college rifle team, so I don't have to learn how to shoot. I try to get the triggers on most of the rifles close to one another so I don't have a 10 pound draggy, creepy trigger on one gun, and a crisp 2# trigger on another.....
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Post by deadeer on Apr 6, 2017 13:31:33 GMT -5
I shoot year round, but it comes in spurts. Once I find a hand load that works every time with the bullet I want to hunt with, I may try a few more to see if I can beat it. Having a fair quantity of toys to work with, and a deep war chest of reloading components, the cycle seems to never end.
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Post by jackryan on Apr 6, 2017 13:36:50 GMT -5
Do you shoot getting ready for deer season? I think I shot 3 or 4 last year, but it was a gun I'd only shot a handful of times before and not at all in several years. Never even considered it for deer hunting until a few days before gun season opened. It was mostly just a wall hanger before. I've decided I really like it though now. Shot it quite a bit since and ordered another brand new one just like it the other day. Should come here straight through the mail next week.
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Post by Jamie Brooks 1John5:13 on Apr 6, 2017 14:16:16 GMT -5
I guess the answer should be: as many as it takes. When I was young, I enjoyed golf. I studied the players and watched every event on TV. When they came to town, I went to see them. Practice at their level is the same for any great athlete or sportsman. However, I remember one guy, whose name escapes me, that didn't practice like most of the others. His caddy didn't believe him, so he placed a peal under the driver cover at the end of a tournament. At the next tournament, the peal was still there. Could this guy have been even better if he practiced? I imagine so, but apparently he was good enough for him. He enjoyed life away from golf, and left it behind until it was time to go to work. This worked for him, but not most at that level. I don't hunt distances over 75yds, so I don't care to practice them. I'd rather save my ammo for the zombies. For me, it doesn't take much to know what my hunting gun is going to do, and there's room for error at the distances I play in.
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Post by jimstc on Apr 16, 2017 9:45:31 GMT -5
I guess the answer should be: as many as it takes. When I was young, I enjoyed golf. I studied the players and watched every event on TV. When they came to town, I went to see them. Practice at their level is the same for any great athlete or sportsman. However, I remember one guy, whose name escapes me, that didn't practice like most of the others. His caddy didn't believe him, so he placed a peal under the driver cover at the end of a tournament. At the next tournament, the peal was still there. Could this guy have been even better if he practiced? I imagine so, but apparently he was good enough for him. He enjoyed life away from golf, and left it behind until it was time to go to work. This worked for him, but not most at that level. I don't hunt distances over 75yds, so I don't care to practice them. I'd rather save my ammo for the zombies. For me, it doesn't take much to know what my hunting gun is going to do, and there's room for error at the distances I play in. That would be Bruce Lietzke: -story-shows-game-s-appeal.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.toledoblade.com/DaveHackenberg/2003/06/30/Lietzke--story-shows-game-s-appeal.htmlJust heard the story yesterday while watching The RBC
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