Ah, November. Depending where you are, it\u2019s either deer season already, or it\u2019s about to commence.<\/p>\n
Have you scouted out where you\u2019re going to hunt yet?<\/p>\n
Are you sighted in yet? <\/em>Be reminded, \u201cIt was sighted in when I put it away last season\u201d is not enough.\u00a0 Consider:<\/p>\n Guns get bumped and dropped. That can alter point of aim\/point of impact.<\/p>\n We traditionalists who like walnut or other wood stocks on our rifles have to remember that wood absorbs moisture. When it expands and bears on the barrel, point of aim\/point of impact can be altered by that, too.\u00a0 The mount screws on our telescopic sights can loosen with time and use, and that changes POA\/POI coordinates as well.\u00a0 Are we absolutely SURE that the ammo we set out for THIS season is EXACTLY the same as what we used last season, and are sighted in for?\u00a0 Same concerns.<\/p>\n Hunters\u2019 ethics:\u00a0 We owe the animal a swift, clean kill.\u00a0 It\u2019s what makes our harvesting the creature more humane than the miserable death a wild animal can expect from old age out there in the wilderness.\u00a0 If anything has happened to make the shot go somewhere other than where we aimed, the humane demise can turn into hours or even days of the animal slowly dying in agony, not to mention that all that meat for the table is lost.<\/p>\n Take the time to verify POA\/POI coordinates, preferably off the bench at the distances from which you are most likely to take a shot in the field.\u00a0 Then, verify from field shooting positions (kneeling, standing, whatever) that you and your deer rifle are still in tune with one another in that respect.<\/p>\n I suspect there are readers of this blog who can share stories of where the whole point of aim\/point of impact thing went well, and where it went wrong.\u00a0 Those comments are, as always, invited.<\/p>\n Good luck, and safe and happy hunting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ah, November. Depending where you are, it\u2019s either deer season already, or it\u2019s about to commence. Have you scouted out where you\u2019re going to hunt yet? Are you sighted in yet? Be reminded, \u201cIt was sighted in when I put it away last season\u201d is not enough.\u00a0 Consider: Guns get bumped and dropped. That can […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3934","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-firearms"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}