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The Basics, Starting Out
MARKSMANSHIP BASICS - Breathing
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<blockquote data-quote="gunsmith" data-source="post: 982915" data-attributes="member: 53434"><p>I guess one more point is appropriate - more in the realm of ethics than breathing, but bear with me.</p><p></p><p>If I'm WAY exhausted and breathing hard when that big trophy animal appears at long range, I have ONLY ONE OPTION - get closer and rest a while until I can take a shot that has little chance of wounding an animal such that it escapes and dies 2 weeks later of the wound. Only a clean kill is acceptable.</p><p></p><p>This decision MUST be made BEFORE I can think about my breathing, target acquisition, and trigger sequence.</p><p></p><p>I absolutely detest hunters who risk an unethical "kill", wounding an animal, making it suffer, because the "might" bag it. Even more so those that just go to kill and leave the animal "for the coyotes to eat". Leaving a carcass with lead fragments kills more animals than the one you shot, and ruins hunting for others. It also gives anti-hunters plenty of political "ammunition" against ethical hunters.</p><p></p><p>Make the promises to yourself, "I will not exceed my abilities when hunting an animal, I will only hunt animals that are plentiful compared to the expected winter food supply / carrying capacity of the habitat, I will NEVER take an unsafe shot."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gunsmith, post: 982915, member: 53434"] I guess one more point is appropriate - more in the realm of ethics than breathing, but bear with me. If I'm WAY exhausted and breathing hard when that big trophy animal appears at long range, I have ONLY ONE OPTION - get closer and rest a while until I can take a shot that has little chance of wounding an animal such that it escapes and dies 2 weeks later of the wound. Only a clean kill is acceptable. This decision MUST be made BEFORE I can think about my breathing, target acquisition, and trigger sequence. I absolutely detest hunters who risk an unethical "kill", wounding an animal, making it suffer, because the "might" bag it. Even more so those that just go to kill and leave the animal "for the coyotes to eat". Leaving a carcass with lead fragments kills more animals than the one you shot, and ruins hunting for others. It also gives anti-hunters plenty of political "ammunition" against ethical hunters. Make the promises to yourself, "I will not exceed my abilities when hunting an animal, I will only hunt animals that are plentiful compared to the expected winter food supply / carrying capacity of the habitat, I will NEVER take an unsafe shot." [/QUOTE]
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