YOU’VE probably heard that tale about the old hunter who, just prior to opening day every deer season, hauls his trusty Old Betsy out of a corner in his shed, takes aim at a stump some unknown distance away, and fires a shot. He sees splinters fly and is satisfied that she still shoots straight.
Then there’s the story about the hunter who really did, in fact, bother to sight-in his rifle — just not lately. Indeed, he shot a nice group with it. Landed all his shots on the bullseye, too. But even though that was nearly 10 years ago, he was confident that his musket could still get the job done.
Which brings us to the subject of this treatise: you must know to a moral certainty exactly where your rifle shoots, not only at 100m or 200m, but over the full distance of its practical range.
When a rifle is intended for serious use, it must be properly sighted-in by its user before any attempt is made to take it afield. This is a subject to which the shooting press has devoted reams of copy over many
