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Tips to Keep Shooting Straight During the Offseason

October 11, 2018

shooting straight tipsHunting is a fun and fulfilling pastime, but during the offseason, you need a way to maintain your skill and accuracy. Without constant practice, you’ll find that when you begin the hunt next season, you won’t be hitting your marks.

In order to combat that, we’ve put together a guide on how to improve your shooting even when you’re not out hunting.

1. Align Your Sight

If you want to improve your aim, then an optical sight can help improve your accuracy. An optical sight utilizes a crosshair in order to allow you to concentrate on the front sight no matter what your target is. This level of concentration will help you to reduce your overcorrection when you aim, leading to more accurate shots. If you are aiming at a target, you will want to align your sight to the center of mass, which will be the bullseye. By utilizing this strategy, your shots will hit the mark more often.

2. Practice With Clay Pigeons

Just because you’re not out hunting, it doesn’t mean that you should give up on shooting in realistic ways. For instance, if you practice using a fixed target, you might find that your ability to track will reduce over the off-season. What you should be doing is utilizing a clay pigeon system so that you can practice your tracking and aim while you shoot. The best clay pigeon thrower will give a powerful launch and have a large cartridge capacity to keep you out in the field for longer. There are many options on the market so finding the right one for you will be easy.

3. Remember to Relax

The key to accuracy when you shoot is that you must be completely relaxed. When you carry tension in your muscles, this is transferred into your shooting position, and will throw off any shot you try to take. In order to be accurate with your aim, you need to find a shooting position that enables you to be completely comfortable, while allowing you the flexibility of movement that you need. Be sure not to lock your knees and elbows as this puts a lot of tension into your muscles.

4. Control Your Trigger

You know that there’s more to shooting than just pulling the trigger. The accuracy of your shot depends on how well you can control the trigger. When you pull the trigger, you must maintain your position and ensure that there is no movement aside from your trigger finger in the process. You should practice dry firing the unloaded gun to check on your movement and position before you do the real thing. When you pull the trigger, you should pull it until it stops moving altogether, and don’t release your finger until you are ready to take your next shot.

If you’re having trouble hitting your targets during your hunting season, then you should capitalize on the off-season by improving aspects of your technique. From trigger control to practice shooting, you can vastly improve your accuracy so that you’re ready for next season. By using our guide, you can begin your journey to better aim and accuracy quickly and easily.

 

 

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