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Small Game Field Shooting
Deer Hunting Secrets
Discover The Closely Guarded True Secrets Of Master Hunters.
Author: Jimmy Cox The trail lead through a frost-touched multicolored
forest, the oak and maple trees a riot of crimsons, deep reds and browns. A
golden autumn haze filled the valleys, and if you listened you could hear quail
calling lonesomely for the lost summer. Grant Hartwell and I were walking this
ridge trail, as men should be doing each autumn, our minds on deer, light
overnight packs on our backs, wholly content with the world.
While deer was the prime objective, a couple of grey squirrels for a stew
wouldn't be amiss, or for that matter a blue grouse.
Swinging around a bend we flushed a big old buster of a blue grouse. It angled
up through the trees with a frantic beating of wings and perched on an oak limb
about thirty yards away, neck outstretched, its nervousness reflected in its
constant stepping about as it watched our every move. We remained perfectly
quiet for a space of a few moments, knowing that the least untoward movement
would touch off our hair triggered game at once. When it quieted down a bit,
Grant eased over a few steps toward the huge mossy bole of an oak, rested his
forearm against it for the shot.
I waited intently, my pulse surging just as strongly as if he had a big buck
under his sights. The silence was shattered by the roar of his .30/30 Model 99
Savage. The grouse tumbled from its lofty perch into the deep mast under the
trees, drummed frantically for a moment then lay still. I walked over and picked
up our quarry. Its head had been neatly severed by that 170 grain slug, an
excellent bit of small game field shooting.
Small game field shooting has problems of positions which merit a lot of study
and practice by hunters. Fortunately there is no essential difference between
small and large game shooting, and what is learned in the small game fields is
directly applicable to big game coverts. Each places emphasis on the time
element, practical accuracy and range picture.
Quite often the decision as to shooting position is made by the game itself. A
squirrel alerted by your careful stalking, waiting for a tip-off from you before
taking to the security of its den tree, has so compressed the time element you
have in which to get off the shot, you must take it from the position in which
you find yourself more often than not a snapshot off-hand.
When Art Richardson and I were hunting ground squirrel that early June morning,
taking them "field run" each shot was governed by the game itself, to a great
extent. Squirrels scurrying toward the protection of their burrows had snap
shooting written all over them. Those which stood up momentarily to inspect
their surroundings had the same urgency in their attitude.
Essentially, there are three basic field shooting positions which are practical,
and used for more than ninety-eight per cent of all field shooting. These three
positions are: standing, sitting and kneeling. The prone position can sometimes
also be used in long range woodchuck sniping and in mountain hunting. But a too
slavish use of the prone position tends to deliberateness wholly at odds with
field accuracy because of the time element usually interjected by the game
itself. Modifications of the three prime field shooting positions: sitting,
standing and kneeling, are almost infinite in number.
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