YesWhat is the hardest thing for you to master when shooting?
Is it:
Reading wind
Cheek weld/position
Breath control
Trigger control
Sight picture
Or something else?
Let us know what is the bane of your shooting sucess. (Remember, misery loves company).
Whats your most difficult shooting skill to master?
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So buck fever is your bane?
I hear ya on the knees thing. Mine are full of ground round.
And the kids are so much better than I ever remember me being.
But she diagnosed the issue. Great!
Calvin45
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Mine too. I'd rather shoot standing freehand than either of those
Calvin45
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Mine also has to do with hunting. As far as what's actually led to screw ups it's been failing remember to "follow through" on moving targets during the actual trigger pull and recoil. Twice ive botched a shot and made a less than ideal hit on moving deer because I was leading them appropriately but then stopped continuing to lead when I squeezed the trigger. Felt silly both times. Both deer were still swiftly tracked and recovered but that's not the point and doesn't change that I screwed up and forgot what I knew when it counted.
The other thing has been range estimation, or more so gross underestimation of how flat rifles shoot, even the old 30-30 and .303 enfield I was raised on.
I don't think I've ever missed low. But when I was younger and more excitable and prone to overestimate the distance And underestimate the flatness of trajectory Lord knows I've shot clean over the backs of many deer. Hasn't happened in a while now.
The other thing has been range estimation, or more so gross underestimation of how flat rifles shoot, even the old 30-30 and .303 enfield I was raised on.
I don't think I've ever missed low. But when I was younger and more excitable and prone to overestimate the distance And underestimate the flatness of trajectory Lord knows I've shot clean over the backs of many deer. Hasn't happened in a while now.
I know what your saying here. I bet I shot 15 feet over the first muley I shot at. Used a borrowed. 303 with ramp sights. No practice shots prior. Everything about that day was wrong. Lessons learned.
Calvin45
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I did the same thing with my dads 30-30 as an 11 year old shaking with buck fever and an itchy trigger finger.
I had it in my head that the .30-30 was not a flat shooting round and sucked at eyeballing rough distance. Was convinced I needed a ton of holdover for a 300 yard shot that in reality was MAYBE 150 yards haha. A tiny cowboy could have been riding that deer and have been in little danger
memtb
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My most memorable misses with badly misjudged distances were late evening shots! I thought the animals were much farther than they were.
After a couple of these, is when I started using the sight-in method that I still use today. I use a 300 yard zero, .and swore a vow to myself to "never" do a hold over…… always "hold on hair"!
Using this method on my last Pronghorn, on a late evening hunt when there was not enough time for ranging the shot. I made a guesstimate of 400, held high on the shoulder, touched the trigger, and hit him high on the shoulder. Another 3 or 4 inches higher….I would have missed. Once getting to the "goat", I ranged back to where I took the shot from….almost exactly 300 yards! Yep, the bullet impact was where I was aiming!
memtb
When I shot at that muley, my elevation and leads were more than a 12ga by a mile. Not good.I did the same thing with my dads 30-30 as an 11 year old shaking with buck fever and an itchy trigger finger.
I had it in my head that the .30-30 was not a flat shooting round and sucked at eyeballing rough distance. Was convinced I needed a ton of holdover for a 300 yard shot that in reality was MAYBE 150 yards haha. A tiny cowboy could have been riding that deer and have been in little danger
Indeed it is and when it's not, I'll be hanging it up. In all seriousness, I started this obsession when I was four years old. I'm not what anyone would consider a trophy hunter as my entire family eats the majority of their protein for what we harvest ourselves. However, I can still feel the heartbeat in my throat when I see a mature deer or elk. Two years ago, the day Monday before Thanksgiving, my son was home from college and we were hunting in one of our small tracts of land and I saw the biggest buck I've ever seen with a gun or bow in my hand chasing a doe. He was 170" plus and I didn't get a shot. However, I sat in the stand for over an hour shaking like a leaf on a windy day. After it was all said and done I thought to myself, after all the years and all the animals taken, it still gets to me like a kid who just saw his first deer. Nothing better!
I feel your pain!
