Gun Digest – Vol 40 Issue 12, September 2023
English | 96 pages | pdf | 30.23 MB
It took me longer than I care to admit to truly understand what productive fi rearms practice looks like … and still longer to actually implement what I knew to be paramount to my success on the trigger.
When I was a kid and just learning the ropes of hunting whitetails with my family, I was appalled by the opening morning talk of uncles and friends who had pulled their guns from the cabinet the evening prior, slid it in a case and considered it ready to roll because, well … it worked last November when they put that gun in the safe.
And there I was, an over-achiever at age 14, shooting a box or two (these were slug guns, with fi ve-round boxes, mind you) a full week prior to taking it afield, punishing a piece of plywood just enough to make myself feel like I was doing more than anyone else. And, for the most part, my annual 10-shot range session prior to the fi rst Saturday of November every year worked for the fi rst decade or so of my hunting career. I killed deer … and quite a few of them.
But, if I’m being honest with myself, some of those big-whitetails, maturebear and stuff ed-freezer stories should’ve come with an asterisk, because not all of those tags were punched as cleanly as my stories indicated. I didn’t know what
I didn’t know back then, and as it turns out, punching neat little groups from a card table behind the barn with my gun was an extremely weak level of readiness.
In Gun Digest magazine Vol 40 Issue 12, September 2023 issue, there’s a freezer full of expert advice—as there always is—but there are two articles I want you to really pay attention to: One is on the diff erences and similarities between shooting paper and steel targets for eff ective training. Per usual, Richard Mann pitches some unique perspectives that you might not have thought about. e second article is a full feature detailing three, pre-hunting-season practice drills to get you off the bench and practicing dynamically. Moving, shooting, timing, practicing. Even if you don’t hunt, these drills are great for any rifl eman because, well … checking your rifl e’s zero sure ain’t practice.
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