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Offline grundy53

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Re: What's your hunting standard group?
« Reply #30 on: August 01, 2017, 08:34:10 PM »
I've heard Aron Snydor talk in depth about this. Some guys can shoot targets and not animals, some guys can shoot animals and not targets. I subscribe to the 1st shot of the day theory, when that's going good every day for a week I'm ready. I usually practice my cold barrel shot at 50 yards.

Ha!

I was an AA class trap shooter and heard that too.  Most trap shooters have heard it.  It is garbage.  The difference is that wile they claim to "not shoot that well on targets, never miss on birds," there isn't an impartial score keeper keeping track. 

I have been in the field with the best, guys who shot international on the US Air Force team, and when shooting flushed covey birds ave seen triple after triple and it wasn't much even talked about.  You shoot in the field next an AA class shooter and you are going to get schooled.  Most of the talk was about the quality of the dogs.

When I was shooting a thousand targets a week I would shoot triples on rising covey birds and it was so fast that I never remembered pulling the trigger.  Once you are shooting at that level pointing a gun is like pointing your finger at something.  Your muscle memory is tuned to a razor's edge and your eye hand coordination is  crazy good and your reflexes are fast.  That is how it is with other shooting disciplines, particularly archery.   

I have been in the field with all else from novices to those who:  Don't shoot targets well, but never miss in the field and if a guy scored a single triple it was all he talked about for weeks on end.
I'll take Aron Snyder's word for it when it  comes to archery.

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Re: What's your hunting standard group?
« Reply #31 on: August 01, 2017, 08:48:56 PM »
 :yeah: to me shooting at a covey of birds and shooting at a elk screaming in your face that you have been calling in for a half an hour is two very different things

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Re: What's your hunting standard group?
« Reply #32 on: August 01, 2017, 09:06:37 PM »
:yeah: to me shooting at a covey of birds and shooting at a elk screaming in your face that you have been calling in for a half an hour is two very different things

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Re: What's your hunting standard group?
« Reply #33 on: August 01, 2017, 09:38:12 PM »
:yeah: to me shooting at a covey of birds and shooting at a elk screaming in your face that you have been calling in for a half an hour is two very different things
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