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| It is absolutely necessary to sight in your deer rifle | | | | rifle at targets, the more likely you are to make an |
| before you go hunting. You owe it to the deer to | | | | accurate shot on a deer. Take your rifle to a range |
| make certain your rifle shoots where you point it. Even | | | | where you have a solid bench to shoot from. Use |
| if you just bought a rifle and the store bore-sighted the | | | | sand bags to create a solid rifle rest. |
| gun with a collimator, you still need to shoot it and | | | | Most popular deer rifles that are shooting slightly low at |
| fine-tune the point of impact. Bore-sighting can be | | | | 25 yards will be about 2 inches high at 100 yards. |
| precise and can make a rifle shoot close enough to hit | | | | Hunters who take shots out to 200 or 300 yards |
| a paper target at 25 yards, but it's not meant to be a | | | | usually sight in a little high at 100 yards. If you never |
| substitute for sighting in the rifle on a range. | | | | take a shot beyond 100 yards, sight in to be dead on |
| Twenty-five yards is where you should start shooting | | | | at that distance. |
| when you take a new rifle to the range. You can get | | | | Any time you put a rifle on an airplane, you should |
| a friend to sight in your rifle for you, but I do not | | | | shoot it at a target before you hunt. For that matter, |
| recommend doing so. You need to know how to | | | | you should fire at a target every now and then |
| make adjustments to your sights, no matter if you | | | | throughout the hunting season. |
| shoot a scope or open sights. | | | | Once sighted in, most hunting rifles are very reliable, but |
| If your sights get knocked off while you're hunting, you'll | | | | even the most accurate rifle can be "off" if it's |
| have to resight the rifle yourself, and you need to | | | | knocked around enough. |