I appreciate you guys leaving in the misses when shooting. It would be easy to take some extra shots and edit out the misses, but leaving them in keeps it honest and shows even very experienced shooters miss.
Man, I love all the videos with you and Tate. Y’all make such great videos together. It just makes me want to hang out with my friends in the woods and shoot stuff
It's funny how many things he brought up that tend to take a lot of years hunting to learn the hard way. I learned using the sling to shoot as well as the spin up by grabbing the stock from slug over the shoulder. The magnification up close I've taught a lot to my kids and friends. I walk a lot from thick brush where you're 60 yard shots are most common. Heck 60 yards of visibility period. But I also walk through areas of clear cuts and replant timber where you may get a 500 yard target..... but usually 300 yards is about as far as I'll get unless I'm shooting from ridge to ridge. With that in mind I tend to carry at 4 power in the thick stuff and 9 in the open. These habits have produced for me repeatedly in Western Oregon. Thank you Mr Spomer for giving away this knowledge to people. Better shooting means fewer injured animals, less suffering, and full freezers.
I'm not saying it's right, but one thing that helps me on the off-hand shots is putting more weight on the balls of my feet. That's basically making sure that I'm not back on my heels, with just feels inherently unstable. On the subject of having your scope at a lower zoom level -- if you come upon a situation where you're going to need a higher zoom level, the chances are pretty good that you'll have time to adjust that and your parallax. If you're on 15x and suddenly need 4x, you're more likely to get busted trying to make the adjustments.
I agree totally with keeping your scope on lower power, I do the same. You have wider field of view and if you need to zoom in you usually have time to do so and when I'm done I put that sucker right back down to the lowest magnification.
Love the show, and lots of great advice! One off-hand position, I've used, is to grab the left side, of the tree, if you're right handed, and rest the rifle, on my Forearm, or crook of my elbow. Thanks y'all! Keep up the great !
Absolutely excellent video. I hunt big country in the Sierra Nevada mtns, but The last 4 bucks I've shot were all standing off-hand shots around 65-75 yards. As such, I ALWAYS leave my scope at 3x with parralax at 50 yards while moving. If i happen to see a deer at a longer distance, i should have time to dial and adjust, but I'm always prepared for a close encounter
Great video it made me remember when my dad beat it into me (using the same rolled up newspaper technique he used to stop me from flinching) on how to get into all of these positions and still hit the Target.
Ron, this is quality content. Finally no wortheless cartridge talk about wind drift and the latest PRC. This field work is the meat and potatoes of what needs to be practiced. It will make far more difference than what cartridge one chooses. Good job. Wish there was more concentration on the actual field work.
Having started doing some silhouette competitions I can say my offhand shooting has improved tremendously. At this point I naturally turn about 90 from the target elbow on the side and shoot that way.
Great video and tips. Here in the wooded mid-west I stalk hunt small game and crows. I carry a Fanny pack with medical, food and hunting supplies. Always have a monopole that is adjustable including into a bipod for the occasional coyote call hunts that I like. The best sling for my fast style opportunity shooting is the safari sling. Super fast, balanced and easy to use with my monopole for a steady shot on a crow at 110 yards standing with a Ruger American 223, with Leopold freedom scope. This setup is comfortable for the miles of light hiking I do. Once again great fun watching you guys teach. Thank you.
Majority of the deer I have shot since 1980 were from standing offhand, or with my forward hand grasping a tree with the stock resting on top of it. I have a quick adjustable sling and thumb hole stock - the latter I believe gives me more control over the rifle when resting on my forward hand. No shots at deer from prone. It is usually wet, muddy and often deep snow hereabouts in NY for deer season.
I was hunting in Colorado for elk and mule deer and was hunting 2x1 with a guy from Texas.I have grown up hunting here in the southeast in a mixture of conditions and styles.Stand hunting,still hunting and drives.The guy from Texas had only hunted from stands and blinds.As we were hunting,he made a comment that he wished he could hunt more like I was,meaning ready for almost anything.I told him that all he had to do,was to make sure he kept his high power scope turned all the way down to its lowest power,and to keep his gun in his hands more than on his shoulder,because as you said here,he really had no smooth method of taking the gun off his shoulder.When I do sling my rifle,I keep my thumb at the bottom of the sling at the swivel,ready to swing it around in much the same way you showed.Im not saying I'm an expert,by no means,but I felt comfortable hunting in that oak brush country because it was so much like the conditions I have been use to hunting rabbits and deer.The thing about the west is,you can get long shots where you have time to assess the situation,but you can also get a close shot that you need to shoot now.Its all a mind set.He felt more comfortable taking long shots,where I feel more uncomfortable taking shots much over two hundred yards.All that being said,it just goes to show that you need to practice for all types of shots.Good video,great content.Keep up the good work.
Be prepared for what you are likely to encounter. I was in a wash with my .22-250 and had my scope at 9x. A cottontail busted out of a bush and I just instinctively shouldered my rifle and saw a gray blur, but I couldn't refrain from firing. The blur vanished and my open vision took over seeing the rabbit tumbling away. When I picked it up, it had no head. I assumed I hit it in the neck and I began looking for the decapped head. I couldn't find it until my eye spotted something in another bush. My bullet hit the head and it blew apart, leaving the tip of one ear, the nose and a front tooth with its lip. It was about fifteen yards.
Now that I hunt from a wheelchair, ATV, or my truck parked by the side of the road (I have the proper disability permits) i no longer practice the different shooting positions. But, this video brings back fond memories of my dad taking me out a nd teaching me all the different positions and the different ways to use the sling to steady the riffle even more. All the while he kept the rolled up newspaper in his back pocket, just incase je saw me flinch after he oked me to pull the trigger and shoot things like the Campbell soup can in a tree pretending to be a squirrel or the milk carton rabbit sitting 30 or so yards out in the snow.
All Good Guys.. Have to add no offense.. Small saplings can be used at times. Say 1" or so in dia,grasp the sapling in support hand lay forend over wraist. Forks and Limbs them can be used as well,if in right location of course. Also dont let barrel touch anything. What you showed here is saddly things we learned along the way ,I did hunting Squirrels in the Hill n Mtns of Tn..But with less n less people hunting small game n more kids going straight form firing range to blind. Postion field shooting fast becoming a lost art n skill.😢
One thing I like to do while still hunting. As I approach an area that I feel may hold my target animal, I will obviously slow down, but I will also begin to approach with my non dominant shoulder leading the way. I will “one step” my way through stepping with my non dominant foot. This helps if the animal pops up in front of me, to my left, or to my right. I can swing my rifle pretty much 180 degrees in front of me without having to adjust my feet too much.
I'm having an argument with my friend about shooting angles and trajectory. I think I remember you made a video on the topic but I cant find it. Thanks for all the great information!
@RonSpomerOutdoors yeah. But he thinks it will hit way high on 20-40 meters and my belief is that it takes further distances and steeper angles for the bullet to defy gravity and hit higher. If I shoot a fox at 40 meters from a blind 4 meters up it wont affect the trajectory. Will it? Not in any significant way as far as I've noticed. But he claims it does. We can't come to the same conclusion. He's blaming his miss on it. 🤣
I am usually hunting small game, with a shotgun (european rabbits, pheasants, etc)...when I was younger, didn't even used slings on my guns...but (mostly learned in the military) that now I also use on my shotguns, or any other rifle, is to adjust its sling tight ftom the point were You grab Your rifle, to Your elbow... so You can create a lot different "stabile" combinations with it...and also, remember one simple, but important "gravity " thing... mountain long range shooting: either shooting Steep engle up, or downn the hill, effects are the same! Bullet drop at long range is equal, because gravity less effect the drop! Regards from Serbia...
I have found that carrying Swiss style works nest for me. Muzzle down carried on weak shoulder rifle in back. To shoulder grab the fore end with your forend hand and swing up. Swings up easily and quickly butt to the strong shoulder.
If your sling is long enough that you can do a second wrap i like doing that because then its pulling the front of the rifle into you and almost makes it like you are holding the front and back of your rifle with just your shoulder and keeps it very steady
Something learned welding was to pretend you are drawing tiny circles. So small they are not there at all. That will keep you from scattering all over with your dot.
I was stalking a decent sized mule deer buck for over an hour and I had a pretty good idea where he was so I took up a position on a downhill slope to shoot into the woods across a swale but I found that I couldn’t get a good seated position on that ground where my rifle felt settled and steady. I think I finally cobbled together a stance that adequately steadied the rifle (distance was only 75 yards) and when the buck appeared I spent just enough time counting tines(its was pretty brushy and I hadn’t seen the buck in over an hour, so I didn’t want to shoot the wrong deer) that his vital zone moved behind a tree and I was ready to shoot as he walked past the tree. Unfortunately that buck was smarter than me (no surprise) and what emerged from behind that tree was his butt. I continued to try to stalk him for at least an hour, but he had decamped to a pretty difficult part of the terrain and I never saw him again. It occurs to me that my trekking poles were almost certainly on my pack at that time, but I was too focused on everything else to remember to use them.
Too bad, James. Consider getting a deer to move/shift by either barking or howling like a coyote or snort-wheezing like a buck. Sometimes even just speaking a word, any word, will make them turn and look. They don't often associate a single human word with humans. It's just an unusual sound and they pause to figure it out. But don't do this if they're already suspicious.
From talking to guides out here and seeing the game pole at the local outfitters, hunters are far less effective killers than they think they are. Every client had at least 1 chance on a 130+ class mtn whitetail. Every single one, save one, either failed to build a steady position or they whiffed their shots. The one exception was a guy shooting a 6.5 creedmoor who had that whiffing experience in the previous season and spent a bunch of time practicing the basics as well as field positions.
I like to carry my rifle with my sling over my left shoulder, rifle in front of my shoulder, my left hand is already on the forearm position and comes up fast!
Solid advice indeed, Mr. Spomer. I always wonder why quad sticks haven't taken off in the USA, especially when doing more lowland type stalking and hunting. They are quick to deploy and rock steady. They can be used standing, sitting and kneeling with ease. Nice and lightweight to carry. I never go stalking without my Viper Flex quad sticks. They're definitely worth a look. The only time I leave them in the truck is hiking the hills of Scotland for the mighty Scottish Red Stags, where most shots will be prone off a backpack or bipod.
Cheers body i was just wondering how is this tiny long bipod called and was searching the internet for it. quad sticks pretty good looking and they don't take any space not like chunky tripod carry around
One year my brother used my shoulder to shoot off because he couldn't get steady but i had to hold my breath to be steady enough for him,not the best rest but he killed the deer
I was still hunting one time and I saw deer so I kneeled down and watched him for a while and when he came in to clear as I raised my rifle with my loose sling caught on a branch and it went, “Thwap!” All I saw was a wide set of antlers and a white tail disappearing into the woods
Not liking the set up from strong side carry to offhand. I have a real problem with using the strong hand to grab the stock low to then flip the muzzle back behind you. I teach use the support hand to reach across the body and grab the forend pulling the rifle off of the strong side shoulder then elevating the rifle up and out as the strong hand gains a firing grip. You have total control of the muzzle and it’s always pointed in a safe direction.
Yes, that is sad. But this is what happens with unbridled development and ever increasing human population. "Elbow room, cried Daniel Boone." If old Dan thought Kentucky was too crowded in the late 1700s, imagine what he'd think today!
Good point, Ben. One sort of figures that out in the moment, I've found. When it appears a buck is about to bolt, one shoots more quickly IF he has a good, solid sight picture.
@RonSpomerOutdoors I'm still trying to learn that lesson. Anything over a forkie and I'm a like a 12yr old with my first tag in my pocket! 🤣 hopefully some more practice will help calm the nerves.
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I appreciate you guys leaving in the misses when shooting. It would be easy to take some extra shots and edit out the misses, but leaving them in keeps it honest and shows even very experienced shooters miss.
Every single hunter should watch this video a month before hunting season. Such great advice.
Actually now n practice now til season.😉
You usually have time to turn a scope up to a higher power if needed but rarely have time to turn one down. Great content in this video.
I agree. I always make sure I zoom my scope back out right after I’m done with high power.
Man, I love all the videos with you and Tate. Y’all make such great videos together. It just makes me want to hang out with my friends in the woods and shoot stuff
It's funny how many things he brought up that tend to take a lot of years hunting to learn the hard way.
I learned using the sling to shoot as well as the spin up by grabbing the stock from slug over the shoulder.
The magnification up close I've taught a lot to my kids and friends. I walk a lot from thick brush where you're 60 yard shots are most common. Heck 60 yards of visibility period. But I also walk through areas of clear cuts and replant timber where you may get a 500 yard target..... but usually 300 yards is about as far as I'll get unless I'm shooting from ridge to ridge. With that in mind I tend to carry at 4 power in the thick stuff and 9 in the open.
These habits have produced for me repeatedly in Western Oregon.
Thank you Mr Spomer for giving away this knowledge to people. Better shooting means fewer injured animals, less suffering, and full freezers.
I'm not saying it's right, but one thing that helps me on the off-hand shots is putting more weight on the balls of my feet. That's basically making sure that I'm not back on my heels, with just feels inherently unstable. On the subject of having your scope at a lower zoom level -- if you come upon a situation where you're going to need a higher zoom level, the chances are pretty good that you'll have time to adjust that and your parallax. If you're on 15x and suddenly need 4x, you're more likely to get busted trying to make the adjustments.
I agree totally with keeping your scope on lower power, I do the same. You have wider field of view and if you need to zoom in you usually have time to do so and when I'm done I put that sucker right back down to the lowest magnification.
Spot on Ron! The narrow leather sling the best hold assistant. I see too many wide slings that are totally useless for good field technique.
Love the show, and lots of great advice!
One off-hand position, I've used, is to grab the left side, of the tree, if you're right handed, and rest the rifle, on my Forearm, or crook of my elbow.
Thanks y'all! Keep up the great !
Great information guys. I loved the wood on that rifle used in the last half of the video. Just gorgeous!😊❤❤❤
I learned to shoot in the Marine Corps. We were taught to always use the sling to help stabilize the gun.
Absolutely excellent video. I hunt big country in the Sierra Nevada mtns, but The last 4 bucks I've shot were all standing off-hand shots around 65-75 yards. As such, I ALWAYS leave my scope at 3x with parralax at 50 yards while moving. If i happen to see a deer at a longer distance, i should have time to dial and adjust, but I'm always prepared for a close encounter
Great video it made me remember when my dad beat it into me (using the same rolled up newspaper technique he used to stop me from flinching) on how to get into all of these positions and still hit the Target.
Ron, this is quality content. Finally no wortheless cartridge talk about wind drift and the latest PRC. This field work is the meat and potatoes of what needs to be practiced. It will make far more difference than what cartridge one chooses. Good job. Wish there was more concentration on the actual field work.
Thank you for the real world shooting techniques. Thats also a nice looking classic Rifle your using.
Having started doing some silhouette competitions I can say my offhand shooting has improved tremendously. At this point I naturally turn about 90 from the target elbow on the side and shoot that way.
Thanks for the great content, Ron. Be well.
Solid advice. Thanks Ron.
Great video and tips. Here in the wooded mid-west I stalk hunt small game and crows. I carry a Fanny pack with medical, food and hunting supplies. Always have a monopole that is adjustable including into a bipod for the occasional coyote call hunts that I like. The best sling for my fast style opportunity shooting is the safari sling. Super fast, balanced and easy to use with my monopole for a steady shot on a crow at 110 yards standing with a Ruger American 223, with Leopold freedom scope. This setup is comfortable for the miles of light hiking I do. Once again great fun watching you guys teach. Thank you.
Ron is the man
Majority of the deer I have shot since 1980 were from standing offhand, or with my forward hand grasping a tree with the stock resting on top of it. I have a quick adjustable sling and thumb hole stock - the latter I believe gives me more control over the rifle when resting on my forward hand. No shots at deer from prone. It is usually wet, muddy and often deep snow hereabouts in NY for deer season.
My uncle taught me how to use the sling as you showed when I was about 15 years old been doing it ever since !
Those are two beautiful rifles!
Happy new year gentlemen (and Betsy)!
I was hunting in Colorado for elk and mule deer and was hunting 2x1 with a guy from Texas.I have grown up hunting here in the southeast in a mixture of conditions and styles.Stand hunting,still hunting and drives.The guy from Texas had only hunted from stands and blinds.As we were hunting,he made a comment that he wished he could hunt more like I was,meaning ready for almost anything.I told him that all he had to do,was to make sure he kept his high power scope turned all the way down to its lowest power,and to keep his gun in his hands more than on his shoulder,because as you said here,he really had no smooth method of taking the gun off his shoulder.When I do sling my rifle,I keep my thumb at the bottom of the sling at the swivel,ready to swing it around in much the same way you showed.Im not saying I'm an expert,by no means,but I felt comfortable hunting in that oak brush country because it was so much like the conditions I have been use to hunting rabbits and deer.The thing about the west is,you can get long shots where you have time to assess the situation,but you can also get a close shot that you need to shoot now.Its all a mind set.He felt more comfortable taking long shots,where I feel more uncomfortable taking shots much over two hundred yards.All that being said,it just goes to show that you need to practice for all types of shots.Good video,great content.Keep up the good work.
Be prepared for what you are likely to encounter. I was in a wash with my .22-250 and had my scope at 9x. A cottontail busted out of a bush and I just instinctively shouldered my rifle and saw a gray blur, but I couldn't refrain from firing. The blur vanished and my open vision took over seeing the rabbit tumbling away. When I picked it up, it had no head. I assumed I hit it in the neck and I began looking for the decapped head. I couldn't find it until my eye spotted something in another bush. My bullet hit the head and it blew apart, leaving the tip of one ear, the nose and a front tooth with its lip. It was about fifteen yards.
Hope you had a Merry Christmas, Happy New Year
Thanks for the shoulder to brace move! Taking my .22 out this afternoon.
Good info Ronn. Thanks
Now that I hunt from a wheelchair, ATV, or my truck parked by the side of the road (I have the proper disability permits) i no longer practice the different shooting positions. But, this video brings back fond memories of my dad taking me out a nd teaching me all the different positions and the different ways to use the sling to steady the riffle even more. All the while he kept the rolled up newspaper in his back pocket, just incase je saw me flinch after he oked me to pull the trigger and shoot things like the Campbell soup can in a tree pretending to be a squirrel or the milk carton rabbit sitting 30 or so yards out in the snow.
This is a great video!
Good video, thanks for showing the misses.
A true, classic, Hasty sling involves wrapping the wrist another half twist in the forward part of the sling.
Reference Cooper's "Art of the Rifle"
Happy new years, Ron!
This video is so good it should be mandatory in the hunter safety classes around the place
Excellent video!!!
All Good Guys..
Have to add no offense.. Small saplings can be used at times. Say 1" or so in dia,grasp the sapling in support hand lay forend over wraist.
Forks and Limbs them can be used as well,if in right location of course.
Also dont let barrel touch anything.
What you showed here is saddly things we learned along the way ,I did hunting Squirrels in the Hill n Mtns of Tn..But with less n less people hunting small game n more kids going straight form firing range to blind. Postion field shooting fast becoming a lost art n skill.😢
Great tips. Thanks! I wonder if using your buddy’s knee in the seated position would offer more stability than a pack?
I lost it when he said I feel like Elmore fudd lol😂😂😂
One thing I like to do while still hunting.
As I approach an area that I feel may hold my target animal, I will obviously slow down, but I will also begin to approach with my non dominant shoulder leading the way. I will “one step” my way through stepping with my non dominant foot.
This helps if the animal pops up in front of me, to my left, or to my right. I can swing my rifle pretty much 180 degrees in front of me without having to adjust my feet too much.
I'm having an argument with my friend about shooting angles and trajectory.
I think I remember you made a video on the topic but I cant find it.
Thanks for all the great information!
Trajectory is higher on both uphill and downhill angles.
@RonSpomerOutdoors yeah. But he thinks it will hit way high on 20-40 meters and my belief is that it takes further distances and steeper angles for the bullet to defy gravity and hit higher. If I shoot a fox at 40 meters from a blind 4 meters up it wont affect the trajectory. Will it? Not in any significant way as far as I've noticed. But he claims it does. We can't come to the same conclusion.
He's blaming his miss on it. 🤣
I am usually hunting small game, with a shotgun (european rabbits, pheasants, etc)...when I was younger, didn't even used slings on my guns...but (mostly learned in the military) that now I also use on my shotguns, or any other rifle, is to adjust its sling tight ftom the point were You grab Your rifle, to Your elbow... so You can create a lot different "stabile" combinations with it...and also, remember one simple, but important "gravity " thing... mountain long range shooting: either shooting Steep engle up, or downn the hill, effects are the same! Bullet drop at long range is equal, because gravity less effect the drop! Regards from Serbia...
Good evening Ron!
I have found that carrying Swiss style works nest for me. Muzzle down carried on weak shoulder rifle in back. To shoulder grab the fore end with your forend hand and swing up. Swings up easily and quickly butt to the strong shoulder.
If your sling is long enough that you can do a second wrap i like doing that because then its pulling the front of the rifle into you and almost makes it like you are holding the front and back of your rifle with just your shoulder and keeps it very steady
this is more important than your 800 yard drop
Something learned welding was to pretend you are drawing tiny circles. So small they are not there at all. That will keep you from scattering all over with your dot.
20inch bull barrel with light trigger pull works every time for off hand,
I was stalking a decent sized mule deer buck for over an hour and I had a pretty good idea where he was so I took up a position on a downhill slope to shoot into the woods across a swale but I found that I couldn’t get a good seated position on that ground where my rifle felt settled and steady. I think I finally cobbled together a stance that adequately steadied the rifle (distance was only 75 yards) and when the buck appeared I spent just enough time counting tines(its was pretty brushy and I hadn’t seen the buck in over an hour, so I didn’t want to shoot the wrong deer) that his vital zone moved behind a tree and I was ready to shoot as he walked past the tree. Unfortunately that buck was smarter than me (no surprise) and what emerged from behind that tree was his butt. I continued to try to stalk him for at least an hour, but he had decamped to a pretty difficult part of the terrain and I never saw him again.
It occurs to me that my trekking poles were almost certainly on my pack at that time, but I was too focused on everything else to remember to use them.
Too bad, James. Consider getting a deer to move/shift by either barking or howling like a coyote or snort-wheezing like a buck. Sometimes even just speaking a word, any word, will make them turn and look. They don't often associate a single human word with humans. It's just an unusual sound and they pause to figure it out. But don't do this if they're already suspicious.
@ yeah, I think that’s good advice. I see all kinds of people do that in hunting videos, but it didn’t occur to me at the time.
Nice one sir xden xx
his 1st shot prone on the hill side at the gong was actually an impact, skimmed the face.
Very good demonstration. Thanks.
From talking to guides out here and seeing the game pole at the local outfitters, hunters are far less effective killers than they think they are. Every client had at least 1 chance on a 130+ class mtn whitetail. Every single one, save one, either failed to build a steady position or they whiffed their shots. The one exception was a guy shooting a 6.5 creedmoor who had that whiffing experience in the previous season and spent a bunch of time practicing the basics as well as field positions.
Remember, if you decide to push bush coning from open prarie...dial that scope back to min. Magnification
I like to carry my rifle with my sling over my left shoulder, rifle in front of my shoulder, my left hand is already on the forearm position and comes up fast!
Bought a ruger 77 22lr years ago, shooting running rabbits made my large rifle shooting a lot better
Ron, what brand of shooting sticks are you using in this video?
I don't know what his are, but I made mine with dowel rods and paracord for less than 15 bucks.
The elusive yellow-faced Gong.
Solid advice indeed, Mr. Spomer.
I always wonder why quad sticks haven't taken off in the USA, especially when doing more lowland type stalking and hunting. They are quick to deploy and rock steady. They can be used standing, sitting and kneeling with ease. Nice and lightweight to carry.
I never go stalking without my Viper Flex quad sticks. They're definitely worth a look.
The only time I leave them in the truck is hiking the hills of Scotland for the mighty Scottish Red Stags, where most shots will be prone off a backpack or bipod.
Cheers body i was just wondering how is this tiny long bipod called and was searching the internet for it. quad sticks pretty good looking and they don't take any space not like chunky tripod carry around
Is that a Kimber Model 82?
Please take a minute and watch the biathlon races, lots to learn from these athletes….
One year my brother used my shoulder to shoot off because he couldn't get steady but i had to hold my breath to be steady enough for him,not the best rest but he killed the deer
Ron if you could wear a mic we could enjoy and focus more on the video rather than constantly adjusting our volume. Love the content, thank you.
I was still hunting one time and I saw deer so I kneeled down and watched him for a while and when he came in to clear as I raised my rifle with my loose sling caught on a branch and it went, “Thwap!” All I saw was a wide set of antlers and a white tail disappearing into the woods
Not liking the set up from strong side carry to offhand. I have a real problem with using the strong hand to grab the stock low to then flip the muzzle back behind you. I teach use the support hand to reach across the body and grab the forend pulling the rifle off of the strong side shoulder then elevating the rifle up and out as the strong hand gains a firing grip. You have total control of the muzzle and it’s always pointed in a safe direction.
"Firts time you ever got one"😄
Just a little joke , what's the favourite thing a duck likes to do ? 🤔😏 ...... Quack!!!!!!!! 😂😁🙄 Quackers always get shot while hunting!
Mobility issues will always make u adjust your shooting style...
What is the brand of sling used in this video?
It’s a classic WWI one inch leather sling. They’re like 30 bucks at almost any outdoor stores.
What gun and caliber in this video?
22 LR Kimber first, then Kilimanjaro 243 Win TigerCat on Kimber 84M action.
Beautiful piece
#UMMazing video. I’m coming out for the 2025 Bootcamp!
Every archer cringed when you said bring the sight up or across and punch the trigger at the right moment
Sadly. Many of us don't have access to open lands where they can practice shots like that.
Yes, that is sad. But this is what happens with unbridled development and ever increasing human population. "Elbow room, cried Daniel Boone." If old Dan thought Kentucky was too crowded in the late 1700s, imagine what he'd think today!
Classic, dog pissing on a tree while your talking
The hard part would be- to know when ti snap shoot and when to slow down
Good point, Ben. One sort of figures that out in the moment, I've found. When it appears a buck is about to bolt, one shoots more quickly IF he has a good, solid sight picture.
@RonSpomerOutdoors I'm still trying to learn that lesson. Anything over a forkie and I'm a like a 12yr old with my first tag in my pocket! 🤣 hopefully some more practice will help calm the nerves.
Ron, you needed a mic..
Ony five? You guys obviously don't do much hunting.
Obviously. But we'd like to.
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I AM SERIOUSLY OFFENDED BY IT AND YOU DO LITTLE TO GET IT OFF THE SCREEN.
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What shooting sticks are those?
Predator Snipe Sticks. No longer made, alas.
@ figures no longer made. Tyvm for the reply