up in the trees

[gazguildford 0]

hi guys

i do a fair bit of pigeon/squizzer shooting out of the trees....

so i make my hide and wait for them to come in and out but i find it difficult to find my range when looking up in the trees im ok on a large section of the branches and what not but if say they land dead above me or i want to just take a walk about i find it hard to judge the rang of my quarry anyone else have this problem? or anyone have any helpful hints and tricks?

 

cheers gaz

[aaronpigeonplucker 32]

i find it hard to judge range when shooting up in trees as well. heres a method i learned from ray mears himself (it takes a little bit of hassle and you need a mate but this is the only thing i can think of):

get a stick and pace backwards from the tree you going to shoot onto until the stick looks the same hieght as the tree. then turn the stcik from the tree making sure the bottom end of the stick looks like its touchin the trunk of the tree at the bottom. then get your mate who is standing by the tree to walk out from the tree in 1 yard steps until he reaches what looks like the end of the stick which is whnen you shout stop then your mate tels you how many yards he stepped out of the tree and that will be the hieght of the the tree. hope you understand but it works well.

Edited August 30, 2009 by aaronpigeonplucker

[bedrock 16]

Hello mate I used to have the same problem when shooting into trees especially with the duplex reticle on my scope. When I change to mill dot scope after a bit of practice I learned how to size up the quarry against the dots. e.g. with my scope on 4 magnification at 20 yards a squirrel would fill up just over 3 dots. I don’t know if I’ve explained this well enough because I’m dyslexic but I found it easer to judge what range I was shooting with a mill dot reticle and the more I practiced the easer it got. atb bedrock

[gazguildford 0]

yeah i sort of get it i think ill put some targets in the trees and see how that goes a couple of days practice wont hurt eh lol

[SEAN3513 7]

shooting at an angle greatly exaggerates the poi

 

you will have to hold over to get a hit in the right place.

 

as always with these things practice,practice,practice.

 

atb

 

sean

[Guest hyperion]

stand under an oak tree or a horse chessnut and shoot the acorns/conkers! you soon pick up where to aim!

 

cheers

hyperion

[stealthy1 3,964]

Try shooting pine cones, my Mrs wont shoot quarry, but she can take quid from me at best of five pine coning quite regular