Last Saturday I shot a Coues buck 405 yards across a deep canyon. The only workable position I could find was with my heels dug in to keep from sliding downhill and my torso curled around a washtub-sized rock. Finally I set my pack horizontal on the rock to get enough elevation. My right elbow was in the gravel behind the boulder. The slope approached 100%, and my muzzle elevation was about 30%. It was like nothing I had ever seen in those books about shooting, but it worked. I'm thinking about calling it the Candycane Prone position. What's the oddest position you've ever shot from?
I shot a buck in Texas back in the early 90’s. And he came out to my extreme left. I had my back against the back of the stand and couldn’t get on him by shouldering my rifle the way I normally did (I shoot long guns left handed and use my left eye). So I had to shoot him by shouldering the gun right handed and using my right eye. He was my biggest whitetail...he went 163 and some change.
Last Saturday I shot a Coues buck 405 yards across a deep canyon. The only workable position I could find was with my heels dug in to keep from sliding downhill and my torso curled around a washtub-sized rock. Finally I set my pack horizontal on the rock to get enough elevation. My right elbow was in the gravel behind the boulder. The slope approached 100%, and my muzzle elevation was about 30%. It was like nothing I had ever seen in those books about shooting, but it worked. I'm thinking about calling it the Candycane Prone position. What's the oddest position you've ever shot from?
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Well, the second best was wedging my left arm crosswise betwen two birches to use as a rest for the .260 on a cow elk @150 yards out, using one-hand hold on the rifle. Bang, flop.
The best was moose hunting. I heard wolves howl, then shortly thereafter a cow and calf came busting out into the meadow just below my stand up on a small ridge. They went out to the end of a wedge of brush, looked back up the meadow, then backtracked to where they had come out of the brush and continued that line, no doubt headed for a lake 800 or so yards behind me.
Shortly thereafter a black wolf whisked across the meadow about 200 yards away, going left to right (trying to flank the moose). 30 seconds later another black wolf came out on the mooses' trail and followed it to the point of brush and lost the trail. It backtracked a bit and cut across without finding the " continued" moose trail. (They do make mistakes!) I'd bet money there was at least one more wolf trying to flank the moose on the other side if they tried to turn either left or right.
By this time I was trying to get on it with the .338. I was up on my right foot, left foot off the ground, contorted around to the left, trying to shoot around the spruce right in front of me. Only chance I had.
We knew bull Tahr were coming out each evening across the river. We got there early and knew the shot would be up at a steep angle so we spent about an hour building a rock shooting bench. Was not at all awkward but was strange to spend so much time on a shooting position. Ended up shooting two bulls, longest at 535 yds.
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I shot a buck in Texas back in the early 90’s. And he came out to my extreme left. I had my back against the back of the stand and couldn’t get on him by shouldering my rifle the way I normally did (I shoot long guns left handed and use my left eye). So I had to shoot him by shouldering the gun right handed and using my right eye. He was my biggest whitetail...he went 163 and some change.
Yup, wrong handed, offhand, out of a pop up blind !
Paul.
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My wife and I were seated, looking down a steep hill, the elk was about 100 yards away walking uphill toward us....my wife was gonna shoot it, but had a small conifer between she and the elk. Elk smelled us, rapidly departing, angling to elk’s right and about to put the conifer between it and I. I fell over to my left side, rifle held “gangsta style”....touching off a round at the small circular target. The elk continued downhill for about 50 yards, and piled-up. The bullet entered just left (elks left), of the target zone, shattered the pelvis, continued forward thru the diaphragm, the left lung (just inside the rib cage), exited the elk’s left foreleg pit (armpit?), reentered the upper leg, continued thru the upper leg muscle, coming to a stop while “bulging” the hide on the forward side of upper leg! The Barnes X Bullet, lost one petal, while encountering heavy bone, penetrating a small bull elk end to end, complete with 3 hide penetrations. I got my elk, and the bullet brand I would continue to use for many years! memtb
You should not use a rifle that will kill an animal when everything goes right; you should use one that will do the job when everything goes wrong." -Bob Hagel
“I’d like to be a good rifleman…..but, I prefer to be a good hunter”! memtb 2024
