So, in order that we learn from other, the question of the week is, how did you screw up? What mistakes will you carry in your head next season or in other words, what will you not do next year?
And for those who can still hunt Pffffft!
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Yes I have issues...........but this one I might have some help for you. Imagine your scope to be a camera. Imagine that you are recording what you are seeing through the scope. Follow the arrow into what you are shooting and continue to follow (through the scope) the animal after it is shot.Starvin' Hillbilly wrote:For some off the wall reason i couldn't keep my head down in the scope! (too anxious to look over) and i'm a firearms instructor(?)even when rifle season came same thing along w/ riding the recoil. going to a 150 pro-hunter instead of the shoulder mashing 180 accubond in my 06.
-ken
If you load, you can load the 150's to about 200-250 fps UNDER max and recoil will be WAY down.Its pretty amazing how just 200-250 fps will affect felt recoil. '06 still has plenty for anything you might encounter.Use a med. burning powder and only out of a book, you will be amazed.Starvin' Hillbilly wrote:For some off the wall reason i couldn't keep my head down in the scope! (too anxious to look over) and i'm a firearms instructor(?)even when rifle season came same thing along w/ riding the recoil. going to a 150 pro-hunter instead of the shoulder mashing 180 accubond in my 06.
-ken
Boo wrote:Sadly, this year I only had a handful of days to hunt. But my downfall was not planning. Next year I am going to get a calender and plan when I'll put out cams and what days I'll hunt.
I had cams on my food plot (not kill plot) for entertainment and didn't put out a cam where I hunted until the 3rd last day. I should have scouted but didn't have time. I should have put out cams in late summer/early fall but didn't.
The single biggest mistake was not dealing with the 150 acres of corn that didn't come off until the first week of Jan...............I should have burned it down!