Off-hand shooting

[MS 9x56]

I certainly don’t have much more to offer. Ton of great information here. One thing I don’t see is what magnification is your scope on? First safari my ph turned my rifle scope off of 9 and down to 6x power. It surprisingly helped a ton. This is when free hand shooting or even off of sticks. It lessens the perceived movement of the crosshairs. From then on the only time my scope is above 6 is from a blind or bench.

The way I figure it if the game is far away you have plenty of time to fiddle around and turn up the power. It it jumps up right in my grill I want the scope set On the lowest setting to better my chance of finding it in the scope and picking my spot. I would sure like to have some of the trophies lost due to scope being set too high

 

[RayAtkinson]

I learned to shoot off hand to start with at an age so young I don't know how old I was, I graduated to a Iron sighted win 94 in 25-35 like most ranch raised kids in the day, and shot my first many deer on the ranch and a half dozen elk in Colorado..I was told and obeyed takeing shots under 200 yards and told not to wound!! Dad did not like wasting hunting time on a track or blood trail...Later went to a 30-30 then a 250-3000 and today a 30-06 or 338, but still from time to time use the early guns..

I shun holding a gun up and letting the muscle groups get to shaking, I toss the gun to my shoulder and pull the trigger, I usually shoot a three shot group from 2 to 6 inches at 100..At the end of each bench shooting sight in bullet testing I shoot about 10 rounds off hand, if Im off I shoot another 10 until Im up to snuff..been doing this for 60 plus years and at 85 those groups require I shoot faster and 6 inches at 100 is now the norm, the 2" groups have taken the form of an accident! Im lifting light weights to help maintain that ability, you have t wor at off hand shooting, but if you master the off hand shot and you can, you can shoot under any circumstances..