Riflery...........

[FWS]

Anybody else have a practice regimen ?

For my varmint rifles I practice on 5 steel bobcat silhouettes I made as swingers on angle iron racks. I place them at various distances out to 250 yds. and shoot from sitting, kneeling, crouching, standing offhand, off sticks, off the varmint pack, off the bipod, etc. Uphill and downhill when possible.

And I work on speed, aquire the target and BOOM!!

Usually twice a month through spring and summer.

Nice thing about a .17 Rem. and a .222 Rem. is there's no recoil and they're cheap to handload. So a guy can shoot quite a bit.

[FWS]

I sould add that I shoot a 22LR quite a bit too, mostly at rimfire silhouette targets offhand.

[MRussell]

Man I hardly even shoot my 22-250. I did quite a bit when I was working up a pet load. Myself and a few other guys would getotgether fairly often and burn up several rounds.
It made a huge difference in the field,more so on shots at 250yds+


MR

[robertw]

I use to on a fairly regular basis when I still trapped out west where I could use a rifle but.....Don't anymore, who would have thought of Gun Control on the Reservations? I'm only allowed a center fire pistol only...At least the trapping is good but sure do miss using my rifle and making a GOOD SHOT every once in a while.

[Freak( Jim V.)]

Towards the end of summer , I start to shoot quite a bit. Shoot from various positions at variable range targets and every once in a while a live target. I , more than anything practice my range estimation. Carry a laser range finder in truck year round and test myself regularly. Pays off too , had a cat pullout last year and it ran across road out through sage flats about a 1/4 mile from where it pulled out. Shot it at about 85 yards or so 1/4ing away running fullbore down a cattle trail.I know my partner was sure glad of my practicing. LOL 1st cat on 1st check that pulled out of one of Bs sets while trying to get chokepole on him.

[bubcat]

Back when Me and my little brother were barn rats, and gramp was teaching us to shoot. He didn't want us particularly shooting at standing targets, said we'd be forever waitting for a deer to stand still,,, there were lots of old tires on the farm, and we'd have wood inserts with black circles colored in on em, like 6-8 inch circles.

We'd set the tires on top of a hill, and take turns rolling them down over the banking, bouncing down the runway, and the one down the bottom would try to put rounds in the circles as they went by. We got so's we could hit em, and worked in a few trees as we got good, to pick the lead openings to shoot through. Up on our chores, and behaved ourselves, gramp would go down with the tractor and bring tires back up the top of the hill for us now and then. No getting around chores, but the behaving part was always a toughy, and more often than not, we'd have to roll em back up the hill by hand if we we're gonna shoot.

I believe that helped alot in the thick woods around here, Jumping a deer, I wouldn't be looking so much at the target, as I was for where he was going, and the likely gap in the trees where I wanted him to meet up with a bullet.

Nowadays, all I do pretty much is benchrest, and shoot a little skeet though in the off season.