Educating Brain On Dumping Running Game

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udarrell

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Here is the charted ballistics figures on many cartridges: time of bullet flight in 50 yard increments and lead in feet at various distances, etc.

Dry fire imagining the needed lead on running game that are not legal to shoot. I have the 22 rim fire chart on hard copy somewhere, it's transferrable to other center fire calibers by substituting ranges. udarrell

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udarrell
http://www.udarrell.com/leading-running-game-rifle-frames.htm
 
Greenside, I have had the same problem with
Norma ballistics too. I guess it's gone, lost in cyberspace.

Steve
 
The only way I've found to improve your shooting skills on running game is to get out and shoot at some running game. Jackrabbits and such make good practice.

Dry fireing at moving stuff might help your hand/eye coordination but you still don't know where the bullet would hit

If I stop long enough to think about how far the animal is, how fast it's going, and how far to lead it, I'll miss every time. If you shoot enough, the lead will become natural and you won't have to think about it. But you have to know exactly where your bullet will actually hit so you know what mistakes you're making.
 
Daryl

I am in total agreement with you that live practice is the way to go.

I have a number of shooting handicaps but if you know the bullet flight time of your cartridge at various ranges my brain tends to almost visualize where the animal will meet the bullet.

Though I never shot a shotgun much, the lead becomes automatic with enough shooting.

The problem is getting enough shooting on running game. Back in the mid 1960's I got a lot of practice on Red Fox in running in open fields in the winter. Darrell udarrell
 


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