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You are absolutely correct. I never use a bench or rest. All of my groups are shot after a 50 yard sprint offhand. Sometimes they are shot during a sprint over my left shoulder. This also is a favored hunting shot. I believe that either position replicates real time shooting.

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So really now. What sort of rest did you use? Resting your hands on sandbags? Interested from a practical point of view.

Your comments above remind me of a description in one of Bell's books, where he describes another ivory hunter whom from memory was armed with a 577 NE or 500 NE double and I believe a 318 WR bolt action. He would fire both barrels from the double into the ele's body and then chase after it firing off the whole magazine of his bolt action. Until the ele dropped or he ran out of bullets.

Precision shooting was NOT required.

I can't remember if he survived.


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John aka NitroX

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