I just break them with my mind.

Clay Cooper -- Amen to that on the M12.
SgaRedneck -- Of course there's no spoon. Everybody knows that. Thanks for the kind words about the show.
Z41 -- It is cool to hit a grouse you can't see. If you can read the target's line and get the gun in front of it and pull the trigger, you'll probably hit it.
CRM3006 -- this doesn't work as well on doves because they cheat and don't fly straight like clay targets do.

Yoda very wise ... rub off on PB.

i'll have to try that. can't make my shooting any worse, that's for sure!

PB~

So Phil, last week I remained calm and trusted in your focus point of 5 o'clock. Good news, it worked. Now I don't miss high. Or low.

But isn't shooting at a moving clay with the peepers shut alot like running with scissors. Or, trimming the fat off of backstraps while watching Predator Quest?

This relates to bow hunting with traditional equipmentbut,. same idea.

In the eighties and 90's before range finders were the rule.
I had a little trouble hitting things between 30 yds and 40,yds in the woods ..
Not bad a distances ( from 40 to 50 ) or 30 and under.
But it seened I had developed a blind spot

Keeping in mind I shot ( still do ) a 65# recurve with
cedar arrows ( I make the arrows ) no sites,.instinctive shooting .
Back then I was shooting a minimum of 50 and up to 200 arrows a day and more on weekends ,
I was just into it.

In a ground blind in late Sept,. a doe came through at what I guessed was 35 yds
I would have shot ( at )her,. but she was on my "off" side and she kept going ,.
Thinking a buck may follow I switched positions ..
Just as I got situated sure enough the buck was there ,.
Big body (dressed just over 175 b) but only a raggedy 6 point. Still he was meat,. and I had no venison in the freezer .

He was stopped,. but it was a bad shot.
His front 1/3 was covered by leaves and branches.
So I would have to stand,. to get an arrow to him .
But he had me pinned ,.. looking in my direction.
Dont think he was looking at me however ,. just looking.

He turned and took a step,. which cleared the boiler room completly .
While he was looking the other way ,. I stood ,.
with a quick glance to gage range
I drew and released ,. didnt even look at the deer ( was actualy looking at the ground ) seeing him mentally.
The arrow gone ,.I didnt look up intil it was striking ,. everything was in slow motion,.
Could see the hide seperate as the arrow struck , the blood blossem then the "wet chunk" sound an arrow makes when it hits.
He dug in ,.made one huge leap and he was gone.
Found him piled up about 80 yds away
Didnt intend that to happend ,.and guarantee didnt go into the woods saying,..
To day I will graduate from my grasshoper-ness.

Something way more than day to day presence took over.
Everything was in slow motion, from the act of standing and drawing .. and only snapped back into realtime focus when I heard breaking brush durring what i knew (and Im sure so did he ) was his last futile flight.
No doubt the "zen" part of shooting certain weapons is a fact.

Steve in Virginia

Nah, you need a good black dawg for that!

Can it be yellow if it is a Lab? Mine works....

Interesting advice. It makes sense -- I'll give it a try. Does the Force help with finding lost birds?

Hunting snows on the Eagle Lake Prarie with heavy fog that had lifted maybe 20 yards off the ground, so visibility at ground level was pretty good for a long distance. Geese passing over were invisible, but you could hear them so we called and had had some pretty good shooting. Some groups would circle and drop down out of the fog over the deeks, while other might drop down a hundred or so yards out and zoom into the spread. Several groups had dropped down and started in then picked back up, seeing something they didn't like. About the third time that happened, I had my I on a 'bald-headed blue' and the rose back into the fog. I kept swinging and as they passed overhead(you could hear their wing beats), I fired. Took some immediate grief, then -- 'whomp'; about 30 yards behind us the bald-headed blue hit the ground, stone dead. Sent Rocky (lab) to fetch it and settled back into my shallow pit, with only a #$%&-eat'n grin on my face. Later, there were lots of wagers made on a repeat performance, but the situation never presented itself again.

Been dar, tried dat and it works!

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All this razzel dazzel reminds me of this video, if your going to do, just do it and make it 2nd nature!

http://s625.photobucket.com/albums/tt334/rla1942/?action=view&current=Wh...

O' I forgot one, gun should be self cleaning!