Hunter class prone position

[crazyhorse]

I used a "hasty" sling without drilling holes in the stock.

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[AirNGasman]

Thankfully, given the uneven ground and considerably-'ample' ground cover at Ranchito Robinson I don't have to leave it to the chiggers, fire ants, scorpions, and rattle-bugs to dissuade prone shooters. Matter of fact, many TEXtreme field targets are mounted on wooden pallets in order to raise the kill-zones high enough to see from a bum-bagged FT position; sometimes multiple pallets to get them high enough.

In setting up some such most-distant targets, my goal is to make it possible for a short guy shooting from a bum-bag to see at least half the kill-zone (and imagine the other half), so he can LOB a pellet OVER the obstructing ground, into the kill-zone. In such cases I test to verify any pellet that strikes the ground would not have hit the KZ (anyway), and pellets barely clearing the ground land (comfortably) below the KZ; like, by at least one or two thousandths... of a millimeter!

Yes, by aiming an inch or two below the rise in the ground, a lobbed pellet can hit the bison face-plate an inch or two below the kill zone.

 

[BSJ]

Too many rules, too many busy bodies. FT should be about improving your hunting skills, hanging out with friends and having fun. Go to a FT match and you will see mostly elderly men, kits approaching $8K or more and few young sons and daughters brought along to learn the sport. If american FT doesn't begin to recruit young people it will die off with age.

People were saying the exact same thing in 1999.

It doesn't die. But it never gets over a couple hundred people a year participating. Like you said. Mostly old geezers.

AAFTA is replete with a history of people wanting to "Grow the sport". They shoot FT for 3-5 years and then move on to something more sane.

It is what it is and it will never change. Other than change for change's sake depending on how pedantic the current BOG wants to be...