Arkansas News Bureau – Preparing for hunting season

By Joe Mosby

All the talk and excitement and planning for the upcoming deer hunting season can be fun. But can it help you be successful on the hunt?

Heres a proven way to increase the odds more in your favor: Spend some time at a shooting range.

Few of us put in enough time actually firing a gun to be efficient at it. Some people are naturally better shots than others. Some may call it luck, but keep in mind the old adage about “the harder I work, the luckier I get.” Shooting practice falls into this category.

And for shooting practice you dont have to burn a lot of that high-priced rifle ammunition you hunt with, those dollar-a-pop cartridges.

Buy a box of .22 long rifle cartridges. Then take them and your .22 rifle to a range before deer season. After that, take along your deer rifle and get in a few shots.

Probably 90 percent of Arkansas deer hunters havent done any shooting since last deer season – if they shot at all then. Oh, we know how to shoot that favorite rifle. “When I get to camp, Ill sight it in” is a favorite line. Sighting in at camp means firing three shots at a paper plate or a tin can some unknown distance away, “about 30 steps, thats the distance youll shoot a deer in these woods.”

Another theory going along with this camp sighting in is that the rifles sights, telescopic or iron, may get bumped in travel, making last-minute testing a must.

But shooting is what were talking about here. Heres a remedy: Full Story

Arkansas News Bureau – Preparing for hunting season.