SIT DOWN AND BE QUIET

American bow hunting pioneer Fred Bear once observed: “The best camouflage is called ‘sit down and be quiet’.” One might question the applicability of advice given by a hunter from across the pond who was best known for pursuing bear and elk with a string-powered arsenal.

However, airgun shooters do have a significant factor in common with archery hunters: effective range.

Modern firearms, space-age optics, trail cameras and GPS units are diminishing the need for the subtle art of fieldcraft, but not for those of us with an effective range of thirty to forty yards. When we’re a mere stone’s throw away from our quarry, we need to tap in to those dynamic apex predator instincts our ancestors honed over the millennia. Instincts that latterly, as a species, we’re