Grouse Hunter's Guide by Dennis Walrod

Author:Dennis Walrod [Walrod, Dennis]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Hunting
ISBN: 9780811743020
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Published: 2013-04-19T00:00:00+00:00

TWO REASONS FOR POOR SHOOTING

The combination of brain and body is capable of feats of far greater coordination than we tend to credit it with. Primitive man was able to kill game with stone, spear, and arrow with extreme accuracy. Those who regularly couldn’t did not survive, and they were removed from the gene pool from which modern man was ultimately scooped. Today’s wingshooter has thus inherited an awesome potential to be deadly accurate with a hand-held weapon. Except for only two reasons, a grouse hunter should be able to kill every bird that remains within visible shotgun range for a little over one second (not that we’d really want to do that, of course).

The first reason is biological. Nerve impulses move more slowly than the electrical signals of wired machinery. Every instant of time, every beat of a wing, is finished before we actually perceive its reality. This fact is easy for grouse hunters to accept; sometimes a grouse can be gone from sight before we have a chance even to twitch a muscle in purposeful reaction. The only hope a wingshooter has of minimizing this inbuilt time lag is literally to shoot into the next instant of the future. You don’t shoot at a grouse. You shoot at where it’s going to be, or at least where you think it’s going to be.

There is more involved here than just the standard discussion of shotgun ballistics, however. Unlike clay pigeons and most other gamebirds, ruffed grouse usually don’t fly in a nicely predictable straight line. They dodge trees and then dart behind them. They’ll thunder under the first grape arbor and then perhaps bore a hole in the sky going over the next one. Even in open woodlands, a grouse in flight will suddenly slap its broad fantail sideways into the airstream to veer off at an unexpected angle.

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