Season is getting closer, maybe time to start talking about actual hunting again (not that Covid and 90/10 haven’t been fun discussions). About 9 weeks until my son’s NM deer hunt and a little over 90 days until my daughters CO deer hunt. Been raining just about every afternoon down here so the kids haven’t gotten in much shooting. They have had to settle for some dry fire trigger control practice in the kitchen. Headed to CO tomorrow for a week of vacation/scouting.
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On a deer hunt in Wyoming several years back I was with a grandson and watched him muff a fairly easy shot, the next day we were gassing a canyon together and he spotted a couple of cow elk on a far hillside. When I asked him if he would like to dryfire practice on them he thought I was crazy. After a few minutes he bought my idea. We folded the bipod down and he lay prone.
First click he said I missed seondvsqueeze he said sing it shot.
After a couple more he said gott it. Turned out to be good practice, an hour later he shot a 2x2 muley on mountainside at 225 yards right in the white spot of its neck! His younger brother used it the day before and shot a 3x4 at 336 yds. That was my 6.5/257 Bob ackley. He used it in Wisconsin also and took a nice whitetail buck.
Dry firing produces confidence.
