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

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[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.

 

[skydiver386]

I've suggested several times on this forum and others that the Appleseed course will make you a better rifle shooter and hunter. In Canada there is an equivalent called Mapleseed.

The course of fire is done from standing, kneeling, sitting and prone positions. There are slow fire and rapid fire training events. Sorry to say, there are no moving target events.

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This is the type of system needed at range facilities in the U.S. The Pro-Matic machines are used at Sporting Clays courses across the Country, and installing a Pro-Matic Running Boar wouldn't be that difficult. The major obstacle is convincing outdoor range owners that it would make money instead of sitting idle.

 

[SaintPanzer]

Shot a lot of running boar targets and trained a lot of people to shoot running boar targets when I was in Germany. Ditto running rabbit. It's actually not that difficult a skill to pick up, you just need to know your lead and go from there. Easy reminder: for rifles with a muzzle velocity between about 2200 fps and 3000 fps, and the boar running at 3 meters per second at 50 meters (just deal with the mixed units), aiming at the ear will give you perfect lung shots. After that it's just practice, practice, practice.

I did see a pellet gun running target and Jagd and Hund that was not expensive, and would be a good practice. There was also a video system by centaurus systems. I wonder if one could make any money importing one to the US. Might be a big hit at the local VFW or something like that: https://centaurus-systems.de/overview/?lang=en

 

[Nyati]

I shot running boar in competition during a few years, those thousands of shots make good practice when you have to take a fast shot in the field.

 

[BeeMaa]

I've seen these pictures used before to help estimate, but it takes practice...a lot of it. The hunter must know their equipment, quarry, range and speed to make ethical shots. There are many places in Europe that offer cinema style shooting galleries to simulate and qualify people for driven game hunting. Very few are in the US.

 

[BourbonTrail]

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.

When I lived in VA, east of 95, we were required to use buckshot from ground level with slugs permissible from 10ft up (no rifles). West of 95, I seem to remember rifles being the norm.

In Kentucky, driving deer with dogs is illegal. We can drive them on foot, but it’s fairly uncommon.

 

[375Fox]

In Kentucky, driving deer with dogs is illegal. We can drive them on foot, but it’s fairly uncommon.

Drives are quite common in western PA, but the sizes have gone down a lot. We’ll do it with 2-5 people. The days of big drives seem to be gone as the number of hunters decrease (except for Amish). Dogs have never been legal here.

I’ve done one driven hunt in Spain. It was a unique experience. It was highly organized. 24 hunters, a lot of dogs and handlers, and 4 stags, 4 hinds, and unlimited boars per hunter over 2 days. I took my quota and 2 boars.

 

[5shot]

Driven hunts have never been all that popular here in the Pacific Northwest, but I am just intrigued by the amazing shooting. The closest I will come to it will likely be coyotes.

 

[BeeMaa]

Shooting running game is akin to using a rifle to break clays at the sporting clays course. And not the normal sized ones, the much smaller mini ones.

 

[5shot]

Shooting running game is akin to using a rifle to break clays at the sporting clays course. And not the normal sized ones, the much smaller mini ones.
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I broke one out of the air with my 1911 pistol on my first shot. I’ve never been able to do it again .

 

[Ontario Hunter]

Learn to shoot skeet low gun and you'll have a huge leg up when it comes to hunting running game with a rifle. For both a perfect fitting gun is crucial. A couple weeks ago I missed six shots before filling a daily limit of three roosters pheasants. For me a bad day hunting pheasants is batting five hundred. So what was the problem? Too many layers. I peeled off the slip-on recoil pad to shorten LOP and took the last two birds with as many shots. Pretty much for the entire last three weeks, except for that day, weather has been unseasonably warm and I'm hunting in shirt sleeves and bird vest. I have been shooting the lights out with slip-on extension. Perfect fit. Same gun I use at the club, an old well worn 1961 Browning 12 ga A5 Magnum. Similarly, the 30-06 03A3 I've been shooting since 1964 is deadly taking running game. Perfect fit and lots of experience = lots of confidence.

 

[Lumaberpat]

The Art of The Rifle by Jeff Cooper talks about choosing clay pigeons with a rifle. Th scout rifle is sometimes considered a gimmick now though.