Thread: .22 zero

Originally Posted by craigc

One year I fired over 10,000 shots at animals as a recreational hunter. Mostly off the shoulder, to say that my centre fire shooting ability increased as a result of that would be a massive understatement; using a rifle just became automatic...

Yes, practice, practice practice.
My younger brother and I used to do a lot of 3-gun. The rifle stages definitely rubbed off on hunting.

One day we were walking down hill on an old farm track through some native hunting for goats. We spooked two cunning old nanny's that jumped down onto the track in front of us and fled at high speed around the corner 30m ahead. We sprinted off after them at full noise hoping to get them on the next straight away. The track was on a cutting, and as we rounded the corner, on the top side of the track, sunning them selves on the cutting no more than 5m from us were two young goats. We were running down hill and way to fast to try and stop to shoot. My brother shouldered his Mini-14 and double tapped both of them at full flight as we ran past them. Neither even got a chance to get to their feed.

We were both so astounded that when we managed to stop running, we both ended up on the ground in a heap of laughter. At the end of the day it was instinctive double tap shooting, as per all the practice we had been doing, only the targets were live (well, they were .....)