How To Increase Your Rifle Hunting Success

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Many of the techniques we have discussed for bow hunting in previous articles will also benefit rifle hunters. Although it easier to harvest an animal with a rifle than it is a bow, often times rifle hunters face stiff competition for hunting areas. There are more rifle hunters in the field than bow hunters. For some reason game animals tend to become more cautious after the first shot of the rifle season is fired.

Get Comfortable With Your Rifle

Before the season starts make sure you sight in your rifle in with the exact ammunition you plan to use during the season. I will tape the ballistic information on the side of my rifle butt for various distances out to 500 yards. This is information can be very useful when used in conjunction with a range finder.

Find you comfortable range. Your comfortable range can be found by placing a paper plate on a target and shooting five rounds at the target. If you can group all five shots inside the paper plate that is your comfortable range to shoot an animal. Keep shooting at further and further distances until you are no longer grouping all five rounds in the target. Do not shot at an animal past your comfortable range. It doesn’t matter how big the horns are, you need to show some respect for your target animal by killing them quickly.

How much practice should a rifle hunter do before the season starts? That depends on the ability of each individual, but shoot as much as possible. You will want to be comfortable with your weapon, make sure it is functioning properly, and can group in your comfortable range.

Get In Shape

In some areas there is a lot of competition for hunting ground. Generally speaking if rifle hunters can get ½ of mile from a road they can eliminate 95% of hunting competition. Find areas that are without roads or in National Forest areas have gated roads. Be sure to exercise months before the season to give you the edge of getting away from the roads. Hunters that drive the roads will spook animals into areas with no roads that hopefully you will be occupying.

Wind Checker

Be sure to always carry a small plastic bottle with baby powder to check the wind. Shooting distances are often greater with a rifle than a bow, but it is still essential to know the wind direction. Animals that catch your scent will flee even from several hundred yards.

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