Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Ask The Gunwriters Mule Deer nails it. Again.

The bench is in my opinion, a starting point for any hunting rifle if for nothing else, as a means to eliminate any issues of at least hunting accuracy. We are limited here at the range I belong to, so the best I can do there is a paper plate of sticks at 200 meters. At our place in PA, I do shoot at moving targets as much as we can. We have an old tire and we insert a cardboard box on the inside and roll it down hill and varying ranges. IT will for sure test your limitations.

J.B. is the a great writer.
I don't understand all of the shooting "off " the bench myself.
In the field it is positional shooting that matters to me, offhand , kneeling , prone, off a windfall or a boulder.
If your rifle holds " a Warren Page, one shot group" it is good to go in the heat, cold , wind and rain.

You all must be shooting factory ammo? I can't imagine not shooting off a bench when developing a load.

The idea is to get off the bench when development is done and practice from actual hunting positions. I shot from the bench to verify sight-in, then proceeded to shoot "regular".

Great article.

My cousin had a 200 yard kneeling snap shot on a previously wounded and running mule deer on a Mexico hunt, with a management permit. He said the guide was amazed because he was use to people only shooting from a rest.

I guess the bricks and bricks of .22 rounds we used when we were kids shooting running jack rabbits helped.

The buck was shot with a 28 nosler shooting a 175 hornaday ELDX bullet. First shot the bullet hit the front leg and shoulder joint and pretty much blew up without penetrating the chest. Probably not the bullet for that kind of shot.