Stand on yur hind legs and shoot like a man... How far is too far off hand?

I've seen guys that can shoot offhand at rediculous ranges. Don't be too quick to laugh at some of the claims here. But, doing it without a lot of practice, is just luck, and that's not proper, spotsmanlike, or humane.
How many guys do you see shooting offhand at the range?
Damned few.
Yet many will claim to be fantastic shots.
 
John Y Cannuck said:
I've seen guys that can shoot offhand at rediculous ranges. Don't be too quick to laugh at some of the claims here. But, doing it without a lot of practice, is just luck, and that's not proper, spotsmanlike, or humane.
How many guys do you see shooting offhand at the range?
Damned few.
Yet many will claim to be fantastic shots.
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That said, it seems a lot of ranges don't even allow it??? I don't get that???
 
I've shot a couple of deer and two moose freehand standing from 70 to 150 yds and would do it again. All were one or two shot kills and most of them with the animal stationary.

Capatain deadly I'm not but they are all dead.;)

Have to be careful around here lately, guys are telling some stories and are being called bull####ters to easily. :mad:

Pretty soon the threads are gonna get boring if guys can't share without being flamed.:cool:
 
John Y Cannuck said:
I've seen guys that can shoot offhand at rediculous ranges. Don't be too quick to laugh at some of the claims here. But, doing it without a lot of practice, is just luck, and that's not proper, spotsmanlike, or humane.
How many guys do you see shooting offhand at the range?
Damned few.
Yet many will claim to be fantastic shots.
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I think the key word here is "rediculous":dancingbanana: :dancingbanana:
 
riden said:
I practice a lot offhand, everytime I am at the range and thousands of 22 in my yard (acreage).

I always take some 100, 200, and 250 offhand shots. I say 60-70% of the time I am in the moose kill zone at 250 )the black on my targets are equal to a moose kill zone roughly)

That day, when I say conditions were perfect, I mean I was zoned. Sometimes you know you can't miss and this was one of them. I watched that moose run straight away from me for over 150 yards and just before he went in the bush he started to run broadside. I scoped him and I felt great about the shot, so I took it.

Could I do it regularly, likely not. But that day, I knew mr moose was going down. I have had much easier shots where I didn't feel near as confident as that one.
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With your depth and volume of practice, I would venture to say, you are the exception rather than the rule. More offhand practice is on my agenda for this coming year.
 
I dunno what the big deal is... howbout shooting running deer out of a tree stand with a Sluggun or a Muzzle loader at 100 or even 150 yards. Most of the guys I hunt with can do this with no difficulty... standing deer is a cake walk off hand from the ground.
 
BIGREDD said:
I dunno what the big deal is... howbout shooting running deer out of a tree stand with a Sluggun or a Muzzle loader at 100 or even 150 yards. Most of the guys I hunt with can do this with no difficulty... standing deer is a cake walk off hand from the ground.
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I guess it is just that I never realized the skills & abilities a lot of the shooters have these days.
 
Perhaps I am a little too cautious but I want to be sure that the kill is clean and the animal does not suffer. We all practice and know our limits so if you can be assured of placing a fatal shot on a running deer at 150yds I say go for it. Me I am not that good so I keep my shots to distances I am comfortable with.

Brian
 
I can't remember my last offhand shot. If a tree isn't available, I've become quite adapt at dropping to my butt and connecting my elbows to my knees.
 
Well, I can tell you the number of deer I've shot from a rest over the years, exactly three. All of the others, were offhand, with most being defined as 'snap shooting'.
Mostly running. It's just the terrain, and the way we hunt. You have no time to find a rest, and distances are for the most part, measured in feet.
Last year (2006) was my farthest running shot, at 100 yards, from a cliff.
 
I hear ya J/C... and nothing can simulate a running deer. I am not saying range practice won't help, just that after shooting running deer in front of hounds or during a deer drive, everything else pales in comparison. The speed of the animals, the small openings in the cover, the anticipation and excitement level all make this an extreme test of ability and experience.
I don't think that the uninitiated or new hunters should just start flinging bullets downrange without some idea of lead or trajectory. But you won't kill a deer by watching it and thinking it is unshootable just cuz you never done it before!:confused:
That said I will use whatever is available for a rest whenever I can... my buddy Killer accused me of sweeping his legs out from under him and using him for a rest one day... this was a slight exaggeration, I maintain to this day that he tripped!;)
 
I like a rest when shooting, but 200 freehand is about the limit

Moose I shot was at 200 and I had no rest, and sitting was not an option due to topography. Not that I would have satdown, I dont practice shooting like that.

standing freehand or off a rest is what I practice.


and ranges that don't allow freehand shooting.... you got to be joking
 
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