Doug is coming in to shoot this weekend

WB
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Wednesday, November 01, 2017, 07:00 (3142 days ago)

He is wanting to get some trigger time with his Encore handgun in .280 GNR and Blaser 9.3X62 rifle. Obviously with thoughts of Africa. I was thinking of getting him to shoot off sticks, one first slow, deliberate shot, then a fast timed second shot reloading. Just goofing around but with a helpful mind.

Do you think this might be a profitable test? Should we have him begin off the sticks, into position hasty? Just thinking of simulation to how it's going to be.

Shoot off of sticks as much as you can

Blake
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Wednesday, November 01, 2017, 10:04 (3141 days ago) @ WB

At distances as far as you can. A little wabel at 50 yards is a shit load of wable at 150 yards. The first day in Africa I could not hold the gun steady at all on my HP tripod!!!! The next day I duct tape a folded up hand towel to the rest atop the tripod. Then I could get the encore pistol to settle down. The rest was a thin edge U that act like a pivot point. Impossible to hold still for me. All of the PH had there own tripod all different. Gary showed me a technique he uses holding one leg of the tripod in the off hand with the barrel and pushing the gun into the hand and leg. It works well too. And was my backup. Tom and Nate both had bypods mounted to there Encore pistols that works great too.

this is how I have told guys in the past to get

Gary Reeder
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Wednesday, November 01, 2017, 10:44 (3141 days ago) @ WB

ready for Africa. If you have some brushy land, set up 6 or 8 targets at various distances, without Doug knowing where they are. The best thing is to go to an archery shop where they have the full size color deer targets and such, all color with no red dot to shoot at. Very few African animals have red dots on their chests. Staple these targets to cardboard and set them in the brush.

Start your walk thru with you right behind him with the sticks. When he sees the first target, you run up and place the sticks in front of him (just like the tracker or PH will do) and start counting. If he can't get the shot off within 6 or 7 seconds of you placing the sticks in front of him, consider that a missed target. Then go to the second target and do the same thing. At the end of the walk, if he gets half of the targets in the kill zone in 8 seconds, consider that OK. While you are reloading or changing guns, get one of your boys to go out and place the targets in a different place and do it again.

Then in the second stage, do it without the sticks. Quite often in Africa you will see an animal and need to get the shot off but there is no place for the sticks. So place the targets where they can be seen from large rocks or a tree, where he can lean against the tree or lay on top of the rock to get the shot off. Or in an open area where he can lie on his stomach and take the shot prone.

All this practice will help a LOT. Very seldom do you get a shot off a solid object. Normally it is sticks, a tree, a boulder or even some short brush. I also have taken shots off the leg of the sticks when shooting from the top of the sticks won't get it. I sit down with one of the legs of the sticks between my legs and brace the gun against that leg of the sticks by holding the stick with my left hand and laying the gun on top of my hand and take the shot off that.

No shot in Africa is easy so all the unusual practice you can do will help.

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