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Bushmaster Super Member
Joined: Jun 12, 2005 Posts: 11390 Location: Ava, Missouri
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Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 1:55 pm Post subject: Re: Judging distances by eyes.. Anyone have a good technique? |
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Neat concept Crackshot. And here I am with a Daisy BB gun and a 3 power scope (I may be 25 years old but my eyse are 64) mounted on it. Now all I need is some pictures of deer at known distances...
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FALPhil Super Member
Joined: Aug 18, 2007 Posts: 377 Location: Dixie
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Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 4:16 pm Post subject: Re: Judging distances by eyes.. Anyone have a good technique |
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Crackshot wrote: |
Knowing your game animal, and how big it is helps a great deal in the W.A.G. system. If you know the average dimensions of your target that in itself can give strong clues to its distance.
Some folks use small deer pictures and air rifles to practise for deer season. |
I use pictures with my airgun. Heck, just using an airgun on indigenous rodentia is great practice.
Before I could afford decent scopes, I used to paint facsimiles of deer and hogs on large appliance cartons and see how they looked in my duplex reticle at different ranges. You'd be surprised at how accurate you can range with a simple reticle on a variable power scope. I met marines who could do something similar with iron sights. One marine told me that at 600 meters, the standard M14 front post sight was the width of the average soldier's torso. I never had a chance to test that, but I think he know what he was talking about.
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Bushmaster Super Member
Joined: Jun 12, 2005 Posts: 11390 Location: Ava, Missouri
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Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 4:41 pm Post subject: Re: Judging distances by eyes.. Anyone have a good technique? |
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Where there's a will (and time) there's a way...
_________________ I have one nerve left and yer standin' on it...
DEMOCRACY Two wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for lunch...
LIBERTY A well armed sheep contesting the outcome of the vote... |
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Vince Site Admin
Joined: May 25, 2005 Posts: 15704 Location: Brisbane AUSTRALIA
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Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 6:40 pm Post subject: Re: Judging distances by eyes.. Anyone have a good technique? |
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_________________ Cheers, Vince
Illegitimi non carborundum
(Never let the bastards grind you down)
Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God.
"Nulla Si Fa Senza Volonta."
(Without Commitment, Nothing Gets Done) |
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Bushmaster Super Member
Joined: Jun 12, 2005 Posts: 11390 Location: Ava, Missouri
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Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 6:49 pm Post subject: Re: Judging distances by eyes.. Anyone have a good technique? |
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At the rate yer goin'...Yer jaw is going to be real sore...
_________________ I have one nerve left and yer standin' on it...
DEMOCRACY Two wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for lunch...
LIBERTY A well armed sheep contesting the outcome of the vote... |
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Vince Site Admin
Joined: May 25, 2005 Posts: 15704 Location: Brisbane AUSTRALIA
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Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 6:50 pm Post subject: Re: Judging distances by eyes.. Anyone have a good technique |
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_________________ Cheers, Vince
Illegitimi non carborundum
(Never let the bastards grind you down)
Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God.
"Nulla Si Fa Senza Volonta."
(Without Commitment, Nothing Gets Done) |
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Vince Site Admin
Joined: May 25, 2005 Posts: 15704 Location: Brisbane AUSTRALIA
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Crackshot Super Member
Joined: Oct 23, 2005 Posts: 1693 Location: Mich
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Coyote_Hunter_ Member
Joined: Mar 05, 2005 Posts: 208 Location: Franktown, CO
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Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 9:13 pm Post subject: Re: Judging distances by eyes.. Anyone have a good technique? |
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Haven't found a visual method that is reliable but have learned to ue a simple Dulpex reticle as a measuring device. I also carry a laser rangefinder that fits in my breast pocket.
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