Aim small miss small

People get too hung up on pictures and movies. When I hunt I am HUNTING not making a photo essay although there are some here that are extremely good at it...I am not.

I do enjoy the videos others post and wish I could do it but I guess I am more single minded.

Good shooting!

The more you shoot the better you shoot. I havn't shot anything since March. Scott

"T3PRanch"People get too hung up on pictures and movies. When I hunt I am HUNTING not making a photo essay although there are some here that are extremely good at it...I am not.

I do enjoy the videos others post and wish I could do it but I guess I am more single minded.

Good shooting!

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You know, I've found that when I make a video of it, I get more knowledge out of each kill. I can replay it in slo-mo and see exactly what happened. Check my shot on the chipmunk from today. In full speed, with one viewing, what do you see? Only that it flips and runs off and dies in less than 20 seconds. Replayed in slo-mo, I could hear the meat slap, see which way he flipped, see him shimmy on the tree, etc. Things happen INCREDIBLY fast. I like the camera to slow it down.

The earlier one, where I shot the squirrel through the arm & chest, it again happened too fast to see it. But in 8x slo-mo, we can see the pellet hit home, the blood spot, and the splash of bird seed behind, indicating a pass-through.

I've actually MISSED a few shots because I was setting up the camera and the quarry ran off. But since it's my back yard, I know it'll be back; it might just cost me a few more cents in seed by the time I catch up with them.

You filmed that with your video camera. That's great!

A sparrow at 80y. I smile and whistle for a day with a house sparrow smack at 50y. That is very good shooting! Good job LNielsen.

Great job! As for the title "aim small miss small" I fully agree. I like to have my magnification as low as possible as it makes me nervous having the crosshairs wandering all over the place. Up to 50 yards, I mostly shoot at 3-6x and up to 100 yards, I like having my scope at no more than 10x (mostly 10x because of the "true mildot" setting although I still confirm my range with a Nikon Aculon range finder). The crosshairs of the MH10 reticle on my Optisan EVX 3-12x44 are very thin so even with low magnification, very precise aiming is not an issue. On my Raven 6-24x50, the mildot reticle has thicker crosshairs but I still prefer low magnification for a bigger sight picture. 

It would be an interesting thread for itself to hear what magnification setting people prefer for which distances. For a rock steady Benchrest - sure, go 24x and higher. That´s the best way to really aim dead center each and every time but for hunting... not really. Not for me, at least.