Hunting Running Game

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Are there any books that discuss shooting technique for running game? In much of the US it is almost unheard of. I am also interested in the aspects of offhand shooting at stationary game. Drifting the sights into the target instead of trying to hold them there.

I’ve looked, but have found little.
 
I don’t think you’ll find anything other than individual opinions and techniques and nothing will replace practice. I really wish there were running deer or running boar ranges like in Europe. I find shooting sporting clays with shotgun translates well to rifle hunting. For offhand shooting the biggest thing I’ve learned is low power is better. High power creates trigger/perfection panic for me. My groups are better at low power focusing on good technique instead of perfect accuracy.

Also in a lot of the eastern and southeastern US shooting running deer either in drives or dogs use to be very common. Deer drives are still fairly common.
 
Yes, I believe it is much more common in the east. Most seam to use buckshot.
 
Here is a little bit from the Norwegian hunt exam training courses .

Some yt vids there

If I have some books about its in Norwegian but I’ll have a look

 
Here is a little bit from the Norwegian hunt exam training courses .

Some yt vids there

If I have some books about its in Norwegian but I’ll have a look

My grandmother was Norwegian, but I don’t speak any!
 
Somewhere along the way, we stopp practising for the field and started to a purile chase for sub MOA groups from the bench. If you want to be a good hunter you've got to forget the bench and practise all shooting from standing un-supported and using various field possitions. Game shaped targets and moving targets are part of it. For ideas take a look at the videos from the Bigbore Association of South Africa (BASA). They've done a fantastic job of pioneering the concept.
 

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