Drawing a unit we don’t “deserve”

[HairyScandinavian]

Another echo about not putting the pressure on, it's hard to do as a father knowing what they could score but at the end of the day the youngen has to be having fun. When my youngest was about the same age we drew a great hunt down here, the area has some legit whitetail bucks. 2nd day he saw a huge bodied 7.5 year old buck with a gnarly wad on one side and mangled antler on the other and decided that was his buck. I damn near cried as we hunted for him and passed a really nice tall 10 and a heavy thick 8. Eventually he got his buck and it took weeks to get the smile off of his face.

 

[180ls1]

Summer Camping/Scouting trip?

Can you pick up any OTC tags and hunt it before his hunt?

 

[WeiserBucks]

Really concentrate on building the hand/eye coordination to get the critters in the scope quickly. I can't tell you how many times I've seen people have missed shot opportunities because they cant find the target once they shoulder the rifle.

 

[Ryan Avery]

Congrats on the tag

If you don't have a Tikka .223, get one and have him shoot this drill as much as possible

Thread 'Equipment versus practice posts and Rifle practice/shooting'

Mar 31, 2020

This isn’t in response to anyone I particular, but there is an up tick in the amount of “I want a XXXX distance hunting rifle” traffic the last few months. I am getting a lot of questions relating to this, which I do not mind helping, but thought a public post might help answer some questions. It’s an attempt to get to actually using your rifles.


People online tend to act like 600/800/whatever yards is a rifle, cartridge and BDC scope purchase away. When someone asks for advice, or says I’m building an -insert whatever rifle/cartridge you want-, people are discussing hardware not...

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