Coyote Commander
WKR
That's my point exactly. In my younger days consequences of a botched shot never crossed my mind until after the shot was taken. Best case scenario you miss worst case you wound and never recover the animal. Short of an already wounded animal why would you have to take a hasty shot? Either youre confident in your abilities or you aren’t and thats really what it comes down to.
I gave one such situation in my second post.
And countless countless others.
Here’s another.
Last light.
The buck you’ve been after for a week finally stands up out of the sage brush with just a couple minutes of shooting light left. You can’t get into a decent firing position at your position based on his, but if you can get to the next hill over 100 yards you might. But that will eat up precious time leaving you very little time to engage that target once you get in position.
Or one that happened to me last week.
Had a coyote come in sneaking in real cautious down a draw with heavy sage.
He wasn’t far, 300-350, but I was on sticks due to defilade and cover, and it was breezy.
He was gonna have my wind in another 200 yards so I was gonna have to figure something out fast. Luckily, he spotted the dog and spooked, lopeing off in the opposite direction stopping briefly on the far side at a little over 400 next to one lone sagebrush (which I had luckily ranged prior).
Again. I was gonna have just a second or two to get on him, settle and shoot. He was not gonna sit there for 20-30 seconds while I figured my stuff out.
I guess if you can’t see the advantage to being able to quickly, efficiently, and with some level of precision, engage or re-engage targets in real world hunting situations, there’s no sense discussing this further.
Not to mention, time, and money, are the safest ways of inducing stress and pressure into practice (both fun and competitive).