Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Ask The Gunwriters Is it possible some folks just can't shoot?

Becoming a good shot requires lots of practice, practice with the .22, dry fire with snap caps. Practice with your hunting rifle and reduced loads, practice shooting from field positions in different light conditions. As hunting season approaches practice with your hunting load on game silhouete targets, shooting at the kill zone. Too many hunters that are bad shots fill the sights with brown and pull the trigger. Being a good shot in the field on game requires attaining the discipline to aim for a killing shot and passsing up shots that do not present that opportunity. Just my .02 cents worth on how I developed the ability to shoot accurately and shoot well in the field and harvest the game I am hunting.

Good eye sight is important. Scopes can make it easier to see better. Since I've become older, shooting accurately with irons has become very difficult. Bigger iron sights with different color combinations help, but on rifles, scopes have been the only way.

Considering going to red dots on my pistols, and eventually having eye surgery and hopefully, then, red dots will not be necessary. Used to be happy with irons on my rifles and pistols, being able to use them at farther distances than many. Eye glasses have helped some, but not enough.

matt

Corrective eye surgery i.e.lasik type corrections, when one is older usually results in increased loss of close vision. All I have known that were older and had lasik corrections lost even more of their ability to focus close. Thus the use of irons becomes even more difficult. You possibly could try one eye corrected for close and one for far, but it has its disadvantages. Getting old and having the eye accommodation to use irons well in all conditions is about as rare as 150 class bucks.

Ask before you let them cut.

I've got a friend who can't hit the broad side of a barn, from the inside!

My near and far vision improved, and I had mine done when I was 47. Not to say my near vision is 20/20, because it isn't; but, I can read the label on the shampoo bottle for the first time in my life, and not just the name label, but the directions too. My distance vision improved to 20/15.

yes it is

Short answer: Yes. There are plenty of people out there who can't shoot well and never will.