Hunting Running Game

[5shot]

Are there any books that discuss shooting technique for running game? In much of the US it is almost unheard of. I am also interested in the aspects of offhand shooting at stationary game. Drifting the sights into the target instead of trying to hold them there.

I’ve looked, but have found little.

 

[375Fox]

I don’t think you’ll find anything other than individual opinions and techniques and nothing will replace practice. I really wish there were running deer or running boar ranges like in Europe. I find shooting sporting clays with shotgun translates well to rifle hunting. For offhand shooting the biggest thing I’ve learned is low power is better. High power creates trigger/perfection panic for me. My groups are better at low power focusing on good technique instead of perfect accuracy.

Also in a lot of the eastern and southeastern US shooting running deer either in drives or dogs use to be very common. Deer drives are still fairly common.

 

[5shot]

Yes, I believe it is much more common in the east. Most seam to use buckshot.

 

[375Fox]

Yes, I believe it is much more common in the east. Most seam to use buckshot.

All deer and bear drives in the northeast are done with rifles. Some states use to be shotgun slug only but buckshot isn’t legal.

 

[PerH]

Here is a little bit from the Norwegian hunt exam training courses .

Some yt vids there

If I have some books about its in Norwegian but I’ll have a look

Kapittel 4.3 Skyting mot bevegelig mål

Skyting mot bevegelig mål er noe av det vanskeligste en jeger gjør. Jegere som har trent mot bevegelig mål skyter bedre mot vilt i fart. Her ser vi på hvordan en kan trene mot bevegelig mål. Skyter…

xn--jegerprvekurset-cub.no

 

[5shot]

Here is a little bit from the Norwegian hunt exam training courses .

Some yt vids there

If I have some books about its in Norwegian but I’ll have a look

Kapittel 4.3 Skyting mot bevegelig mål

Skyting mot bevegelig mål er noe av det vanskeligste en jeger gjør. Jegere som har trent mot bevegelig mål skyter bedre mot vilt i fart. Her ser vi på hvordan en kan trene mot bevegelig mål. Skyter…

xn--jegerprvekurset-cub.no

My grandmother was Norwegian, but I don’t speak any!

 

[Hunter4752001]

Somewhere along the way, we stopp practising for the field and started to a purile chase for sub MOA groups from the bench. If you want to be a good hunter you've got to forget the bench and practise all shooting from standing un-supported and using various field possitions. Game shaped targets and moving targets are part of it. For ideas take a look at the videos from the Bigbore Association of South Africa (BASA). They've done a fantastic job of pioneering the concept.

 

[small bore]

Complete Book of Shooting, 1965- Jack O'Connor includes a chapter called Hitting Running Game.

Game Shooting, 1955 by Macdonald Hastings- some shooters find this book on Robert Churchill's shotgun technique for game birds usefully adaptable to rifle shooting technique for running game.