keep your eye on the target move gun with low power optic up to your cheek , in to your shoulder.

the majority of scoped guns I see the scope is too high , too far back and there is not enough cheek rest on the stock to get a good cheek weld and see through the scope.


you need to get a good cheek weld eyes closed then open your eyes if you can't see clear edge to edge through the scope , build up the cheek rest card board strips and masking tape to start that will let you know where you need to be

eyes closed , lowest power magnification up to the cheek into the shoulder turkey neck stretch and drop to cheekweld open your eyes is the scope clear edge to edge move ti forward or back as needed to get there find where you get edge to edge clarity and where you loose it forward and back set in the middle of that , then turn the magnification to max and you should still be able to see edge to edge.

on the highest magnification turn the focus ring at the rear eye piece all the way in shoulder the rifle with your eyes closed aiming at a blank white or sky open your eyes , was the reticle crisp , turn in 1/4 turns and keep trying you want to find where it gets crisp then starts to get blurry again then go back to crisp, you keep your eyes closed look at that blank wall , back of a target or clear sky and open your eyes , the catch you have to decide in about 1/2 a second was it crisp or not before your eyes try and correct for it. when you find that spot mark.

after setting up like this you should be able to look at a target shoulder the rifle and spend no time looking for the retical in the scope , your head should be firm to the stock in the exact same place every time

one of my deer rifles , the cheek bag gets me the right height , the bolt just lightly touches my cheek when all the way back and it has a 14 inch length of pull. my scopes might be a touch farther forward than others need them do to my size

that scope has 3.7 inches of eye relief

I use iron sights all the time for deer hunting here in the North woods.I don't mind buckhorn sights but I prefer peep sights.

I have a peep sight on my Win Model 95 in 30/06. It's my back up moose rifle, though I've never shot one with it. Can't hardly see buckhorn sights anymore.

Or often your scope is to far forward or back to far . Also your rings may be to tall to get a good cheek weld.

I hear this often from folks that are new to shooting with scopes and dont get it set up correctly or more often they have the guy at the gun shop put the scope on. I see a lot of crosshair at angles and scopes so far forward the intended shooter cant see a thing because it blacks out. Often this is because the gun counter guy is over 6 ft and the gun is for a smaller shooter.

Green county beat me to it.

This for sure! Same like a shot gun, or for open sights on a rifle for that matter. I shoot peep sights on my 30-30. I also buy a finer fiber optic front sight along with a larger aptiture in the peep side. Works great!

I shoot a Marlin 1895 Guide Gun with a Leupol 2.5x Scout scope mounted way forward. Very quick and almost open sights.

I mostly hunt with a scoped, pre-64 Winchester M 70. But I always take my Marlin 336 iron-sighted, lever action to camp as a back up gun and for days I'll be hunting in the thick stuff.

There are still 10 states that don't allow rifles for deer hunting. Shotgun slugs only I guess. Or buckshot. Do these hunters put a scope on a shotgun? What is effective range of a shotgun on deer?

I use a scoped 06 in farm country where longer shots are possible. In the woods, an iron sighted 30-30 or a flintlock rifle. Squirrel and rabbit I usually use a 22 with open sights.

I'm an iron sight guy. 22's, centerfire and slug guns. I shoot a sako 270 with square "pistol sights" for longer shots. Most shots for me are 100 yards or less and I've never had a problem

while my state allows rifle , the township I hunt does not

12ga 28 inch modified choke barrel on a calm day with scope will do 5 rounds touching in a vertical line on a target at 100 yards yes that barrel warms up it strings
on a very windy day 75 yards becomes the limit as the slugs de-stabalize then hitting a 2 liter bottle is possible every time at 75 while 100 yards roll of the dice if you can hit the 2 liter bottle one will be left then right then left low
I hunted this gun a lot of years just the bead on the barrel , then had it drilled and tapped when I needed glasses it has a Nikon 2-7x32

this is with 2 3/4 1 oz Win super x rifled slugs

the 20 ga 5/8 oz 2 3/4 super x slugs take 25 yards off 75 on a calm day and 50 in high wind the foster type slugs are drag stabalized as they loose velocity which they do quickly they get less predictable they are also starting super sonic and half way to a 100 yard target fall sub sonic

this is all depended on gun or barrel my 24inch mossberg slug barrel with iron sights is about 6 inches at 100 yards for me unless really windy, and the 870 with 20 inch smooth slug barrel is a 50-75 yard gun for aiming it just does not make it happen at 100 yards

when you find a gun that shoots slugs well you hang onto it.

now the 20ga 2 3/4 24 inch fully rifled barrel with Winchester dual bond slugs is about 3 inches at 100 yards have't tried it further seldom any shots further , it is really impressive on the deer shot with it so far that gun wears a 2-7x32 nikon at 2.50 a round on sale I sight it in take 3 shots to verify each year then go shoot deer.


the ranges given are where you can predictably place the slug in a reasonable group , they are lethal much much farther you just have little ability to place them inside the kill zone on your deer.

the rifled barrel sabot slugs were getting to be basically strait wall cartridge rifles it fires a 260gr 44cal bullet at 1800fps just short of 45-70 velocities.

the State of WI found that rifles were no more dangerous , people treat a rifle with more respect for the range it can go and hit their target better in one shot. my county reported less stray projectiles hitting outbuildings , and equipment the year they switched to rifle and since. people think a slug drops more than it does because they are not hitting and they will aim 3 feet over a deer at 100 yards

blood trailing shotgun shot deer and rifle shot deer are different a 72 cal entry with a slightly larger exit they leak blood all over the place typically.

Wasn't a law changed or something about 5-10 years ago that allowed rifle state wide and individual municipalities had to come up with their tailor fitted rules if they wanted to be stricter? I could hunt with a rifle in Mequon and Germantown (northern MKE burbs).

2013

http://archive.jsonline.com/sports/...es-statewide-b99107924z1-225667631.html/

Washington and Oregon townships are the two I know of that made an ordinance to keep gun deer hunting shotgun and handgun only.

it has everything with who was on the town board at the time and since I don't live in the township I hunt , I get little say. however I have had family there since the 1880s

I read where I think it was Maryland, is considering legalizing "straight-walled" cartridge rifle hunting along with shotgun. Don't know the reasoning for it. That includes some bigguns.

With a few exceptions, most pistol caliber rifles don't have much better ballistics than a 12ga rifled slug. I've been using a .44mag rifle since Ohio lehaliz entry m for deer.

I would never close one eye and I've probably looked through more scopes than most.

that is just it the 1.8 inch restriction strait wall cartridge really does set ballistics a touch better with the 2 3/4 or 3 inch sabot slugs than many of the cases will allow.

a 240gr bullet from a 44mag rifle will still kill deer very well and you can buy 50 of them for 40 dollars and practice more and reload instead of 50 sabot slugs for 150 dollars. the rifle also had greater accuracy and less recoil in most cases.

in WI they found 76% of hunters used rifles 24% shotguns yet 42% of shooting incidents involved shotguns

seen it over and over , because people are told shotguns are safer and don't have the range the do some really dumb things with them. like unload on a deer running along the ridge of a hay field 150 yards out aiming 4 feet high "oh that slugs drops like a rock" yeah like a rock strait through the machine shed 200 yards down the other side of that hill. sure it lost 40 feet in elevation but it was still traveling.

so many people would be cheap and " oh you don't need anything but the bead on the end of the barrel" true you don't but you should still practice.

"no adjustable sights , no need to sight in "

hand a kid a shotgun opening morning "there just put the bead on the deer and pull." yeah except his rear sight AKA his/her eye isn't int he same place yours was

just things that people would not do with a rifle , because they were told how far the rifle could go , that was drilled into them.

lots of cross dominant eye shooter out there , and that is what they do. yes they should have been checked when they were kids and taught to shoot to their eye and not the hand they write with or the gun available to them at the time.

my dad is a squinter left eye dominant and right handed , they handed him a right handed gun when he was a kid, he wrote right handed he had been hunting 40 years before he knew any better by then his left shoulder was such a mess he is just a squinter , it isn't right , but it is

Reminds me of a youth deer hunt our county conservation club hosted. Family came in after the morning hunt and we went out to the range to shoot some paper plates to get some shooting in. They had rem 870 or the mossberg equivalent. No scopes. Kids and the adults had a hard time getting on the plates at 10 yards.