Wild Boar Fever - Best of Franz-Albrecht

Longwalker said:
Wow he gives excellent advice! I am much more attracted to the skills required to make quick, decisive and deadly shots at moderate range on moving game as opposed to all the common fluff we normally read about long range precision shooting of game animals. To be an accomplished shot on driven game requires a very different set of shooting skills than the skills that the long range crowd constantly promotes. Maybe because I am also a very committed ( or Looney) wingshooting enthusiast, I think hitting moving game with a rifle is a far greater challenge, and involves the hunter to a greater degree in the whole experience. The long range crowd is all about taking advantage of technology. Or is that too harsh? I really don't have anything against long range shooting. But I do wonder how the thrill of the hunt and actual hunting skills figures in. I wonder if we can have an enlightening debate on such a controversial subject. Perhaps I'm hijacking this thread. But I'll throw it out there for your consideration.
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Unfortunately that debate, like many others in our community, turns into a gong show rapidly. Seems us hunters can't stand how other hunters do anything if it's not exactly like how we do it.

Both long range hunting and close range hunting require different skills to be ethical. I've seen bozos try long range shots they have no business taking and I've seen unpracticed shoters try shots at running game that they should not have taken. When one is practiced though both are ethical and different people find each one preferable. Both are legal and both should be embraced by the broader hunting community :)

Personally I'd love to get practice shooting at moving targets. Anyone know of a way to set up a practice target? Admittedly I have spent a lot of time practicing a few different shooting disciplines. Rapidly moving targets has not been one of them.
 
Long range shooting and shooting moving targets are both useful skills under the right circumstances. Improved technology has allowed for longer and longer shots to be taken. If you go back and read old magazine articles from the early '90's and earlier, 400 yards was considered a very long shot because the technology didn't allow for accurate range estimation beyond that point. Four hundred is still a long shot for me, but for somebody that's well practiced, that's a chip shot. The skill has it's place, but I don't agree with going out to deliberately set up long shots just to prove you can.

Long shots are a rarity where I hunt, but the ability to hit moving game like that would be much more useful. Actually setting up a moving target to practice on is a major obstacle though. I can't think of any ranges nearby that have a moving target set-up, and if you shoot on crown land, like I do, setting up your own isn't very practical either. I would love to be able to shoot like that though. Going back to those same old magazine articles, I remember being constantly admonished not to attempt to shoot at moving game, and if you spend some time watching wild tv, rarely do hunters attempt a shot at an animal that's not dead stationary. Even slowly walking animals are passed, which is just agonizing to watch.
 
I'd agree that access to practise opportunities is a very big factor which at the same time promotes long range technical shooting and discourages athletic shots at moving game. The trend will continue and is probably inevitable. But those German shooting cinemas are very very fun and educational and seem like a perfect solution. Wonder what they cost to set up?

I can shoot all I want at long range stationary targets on my own property, no lack of opportunity to practise that. But a lack of moving targets got me thinking. I am contemplating setting up a running game target that will move a target ( either a gong or a silhouette ) on cables running in a set of horizontally mounted bicycle rims. Kinda like a clothesline. The gears on the rear hub of one bike rim should allow different speeds, I could drive the assembly with an old garage door opener motor, and even use the remote to stop and start. Target would hang from the main cable by two short droppers, and should allow shooting in both left-right and right-left directions. I'd need my little Honda generator to power the set up. Nowhere near as sophisticated as a shooting cinema, but way better than nothing. What do you think?
 
Longwalker said:
I'd agree that access to practise opportunities is a very big factor which at the same time promotes long range technical shooting and discourages athletic shots at moving game. The trend will continue and is probably inevitable. But those German shooting cinemas are very very fun and educational and seem like a perfect solution. Wonder what they cost to set up?

I can shoot all I want at long range stationary targets on my own property, no lack of opportunity to practise that. But a lack of moving targets got me thinking. I am contemplating setting up a running game target that will move a target ( either a gong or a silhouette ) on cables running in a set of horizontally mounted bicycle rims. Kinda like a clothesline. The gears on the rear hub of one bike rim should allow different speeds, I could drive the assembly with an old garage door opener motor, and even use the remote to stop and start. Target would hang from the main cable by two short droppers, and should allow shooting in both left-right and right-left directions. I'd need my little Honda generator to power the set up. Nowhere near as sophisticated as a shooting cinema, but way better than nothing. What do you think?
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I was thinking that setup almost exactly. The biggest obstacle being you would need your own range, as it would not be practical to set that up in a non permanent way I would think.

The only way I see to set up a mobile target in a quick set up/tear down fashion would be a clothesline setup with a weighted target that moves with gravity.
 
cam1936 said:
Personally I'd love to get practice shooting at moving targets. Anyone know of a way to set up a practice target? Admittedly I have spent a lot of time practicing a few different shooting disciplines. Rapidly moving targets has not been one of them.
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Clothes line and pulley set up with an electric motor is what we use..

9.3mauser said:
... also good tips on dry firing
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Been doing this as long as I can remember having a rifle in my hands.. Taught to me by my since passed Grandfather..
 
what you need to practice moving shots is a few buddys a atv and a big hill ,and a few truck or car tires ,cut out some cardboard to fit inside rubber tires ,have buddys roll tire down a hill so shooter can shoot in a safe direction ,a atv really helps getting tires back up the hill .,you will get some pretty wild rolls out of a tire with some jumps and wild action .start off at 20 yards with your slug gun and see how many slugs you can put in the center of a tire as it rolls by .talk about a fun day at the range ,Dutch
 
Yes this guy is really good. But his rifle should get some credit too.
After all its the fastest bolt action in the world :) I have been looking a these guns for a while, I think it's a good time to buy one.
 
A lot has to be said about the optics as well ,I have used a red dot sight for turkey hunting for years and find thy are very fast on target .all the optics he uses have some sort of red dot ,,I found that well deer hunting I would loose the cross hairs on the animal and end up guessing were the center was .so after much research I got the luppy vxr 3to9 by40 ,I am using it on my turkey deer gun combo and so far I am really liking it ,very fast on a moving target and that is half the game .trigger control is the next part and this is what I am working on now ,Dutch
 
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