Backcountry Shooting Skills: Building & Practicing the Fundamentals

May 13, 2022

This episode takes a deep dive into how to learn and practice shooting skills that will make you a backcountry deal-closer at the moment of truth. 

With the objective defined as the ability to place a bullet precisely into the vitals under challenging conditions, we address: 

• Reading the lay of the land as you set up to shoot
• Building a stable shooting position
• Mastering your breathing
• Achieving a correct sight picture
• Executing a clean trigger squeeze
• Controlling recoil
• Following through
• Spotting impacts
• Following up

Transitioning from critical shooting skills, we detail practice methods for the range and for the field: 

• Confirming zero
• Validating ballistics
• Testing capability from field positions
• Going afield and practicing
• Dry-firing
• Reading the situation (wind, angle, animal position)
• Rocks, bushes, and other targets of opportunity
• Letting missed shots haunt you—for the future good

Wrap & final thought: Don't be the weak link in the chain

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