Thread: Judging range

With the advent of steel shot I decided I needed a better guide of distance rather than my eye monitor so a couple of seasons ago I took my 30M Builders tape out on peg up day and measured thirty / forty M distance from my mai mai pegged them out so I could have a better judge of distance with birds coming into range desired outcome use less shot and minimise wounded birds.

Physically installing a removable marker as a distance aid on the battleground was standard practice for the British army up to the end of the 19 th Century.

In your case, you are lucky as most ducks don't carry firearms and use the aid from their side as they fly in. :>)

Originally Posted by Kiwi Sapper;214823[U

]Physically installing a removable marker as a distance aid on the battleground was standard practice for the British army up to the end of the 19 th Century.[/U]

In your case, you are lucky as most ducks don't carry firearms and use the aid from their side as they fly in. :>)

yes that at miserly ammo practises not to mention incompetence at leader ship level
didnt help them at isandhalwana

Originally Posted by gsp follower

yes that at miserly ammo practises not to mention incompetence at leader ship level
didnt help them at isandhalwana

Ah well, at least you didn't bring up the old warhorse about the ammunition boxes. :>)

rangefinder as they're flying past?

It'd be hard once the birds are coming in hard and fast from all angles and heights to use the markers wouldnt it?

Just keep it instinctive, as I read in Dick Eusson's Duck Hunting Australia "Rifles are a science, shotgunning is an art".

Originally Posted by Kiwi Sapper

Ah well, at least you didn't bring up the old warhorse about the ammunition boxes. :>)

no boxer primed 450 miracles that day

Originally Posted by Bonecrusher

With the advent of steel shot I decided I needed a better guide of distance rather than my eye monitor so a couple of seasons ago I took my 30M Builders tape out on peg up day and measured thirty / forty M distance from my mai mai pegged them out so I could have a better judge of distance with birds coming into range desired outcome use less shot and minimise wounded birds.

How do you judge the birds relative to the pegs?

f you put up a big net t 30 yards they will bounce off it and keep them in range.....

Originally Posted by gsp follower

no boxer primed 450 miracles that day

Quite right........that happened the following day along with "a bayonet and some guts behind it", if you want to believe the celluloid "hype".

Pays to set your decoys at known distances... but very hard to judge birds distance relative to water, unless, well they are on the water ha ha.

Originally Posted by gadgetman

How do you judge the birds relative to the pegs?

How do those without markers judge distance?

Originally Posted by Mike H

How do those without markers judge distance?

I go by the old British film saying, "Don't shoot till you see the whites of their eyes." Last year I shot at and bagged one mallard.

You get an idea on when they are in range after a while.

Originally Posted by PerazziSC3

Pays to set your decoys at known distances... but very hard to judge birds distance relative to water, unless, well they are on the water ha ha.

+1

Originally Posted by gadgetman

I go by the old British film saying, "Don't shoot till you see the whites of their eyes." Last year I shot at and bagged one mallard.

I'm like that with deer. up close and personal