Eye Dominance is a phenomenon that affects many people from birth or can appear over time, especially with the onset of middle age, tiredness, variations in light and a variety of other factors. The effect is often not identified by shooters – or indeed coaches. The impact on shooting effectively, even at short range, is dramatic and even more so at long-range targets.
That impact is not always recognised. How many syndicate members drop out or give up shooting through frustration at not being able to hit or cleanly kill quarry despite it being ‘an easy shot’ and having the skills and resources to do so?
A real inhibitor to effective shooting is the fact that your friends, fellow shooters or relatives do not know they have a cross-dominant eye. Even if they did not have a dominance problem before, remember it can be acquired, especially as we get older. Once identified it can be easy to correct.
Fox Snaring Foxes can be prolific predators of gamebirds, ground nesting birds, small mammals and young livestock. They can be controlled by a number of different methods but no one method is suitable for all circumstances. Modern fox snares (also referred to as humane cable restraints) are designed to only
Head Measuring Getting a head start Although British deer stalkers have little time for trophy hunting, it is a valuable management tool to record particularly good heads and BASC will be offering a head measuring service to members at some game fairs. Here Dominic Griffith explains how it’s done: A head
Follow up of shot deer With a well-placed shot most deer will be killed quickly and retrieving the dead deer will not be an issue. However, occasionally things do go wrong and it is critical that the stalker knows how to follow-up a wounded deer correctly such that it can
