Best Tips to Up Your Pheasant Hunting Skills

While the care and maintenance that goes into keeping the perfect hunting ground in tip-top shape is a task that can keep you busy all year round, the buzz is sure to increase when pheasant hunting season is around the corner. As a trusted and widely known spot for pheasant hunting, the team at Westervelt Lodge never disappoints. Throughout the year they would take all the necessary care to ensure that the hunting ground delivers on the promises they make to their patrons. However, when pheasant hunting season starts, they are ready with a few helpful tips to up your skills and to help you to bring back the numbers for which you’ve been hoping.

The first tip they give comes as no surprise at all. Practice, practice, practice. While these words might be something you already know, they expand on what kind of practice you need to put into place. The team of experts states that it is not about the number of boxes of shells you can blow through one practice session at a time but much rather about what your aim to achieve with every practice session. Hone your skills on clay targets from several distances and try to cover every possible variable that can present itself to you in the hunting grounds. This way of shooting and practicing is the only way how you will ever be able to improve your hunting skills to be ready for any condition and it is how you can improve your knowledge of ballistics and how they perform in various conditions.

The speed with which you pull the trigger makes the difference between having a full hunting bag in no time at all and spending endless fruitless hours only to return home with an empty hunting bag and a heavy heart. When it comes to the speed that you pull the trigger, it all boils down to how ready are you to shoot? The best approach is to be sure that you are ready for action throughout the entire time. Being more alert and ready for action will give you that split second of play to pull your trigger when you need to do it, and this is often what makes the difference after all.

Where do you focus when you are in the fields? It can be easy to have your focus point on the ground to see where these birds are hiding and when you have dogs in your party, they too would often keep the hunter’s attention on the wrong spot. The key is to focus just above the dogs, says the team at Westervelt. Keep your gaze elevated to where these birds will be going rather than where you expect to see them. Even when the birds take off in flight, keep your gaze ahead of the birds and shoot where they are heading. If you aim at the position you see them when they take off, you are bound to miss the shot. However, if you plan and aim to where they are heading, your bullet and their pheasant’s flight is bound to cross and this moment is golden, turning the average day of pheasant shooting into a day of success to be celebrated around the fire at night.

These are of course the type of experience you and your hunting partners will be able to enjoy when you take the time to become one with nature and immerse yourself in the wonders of hunting. It is the time when you can relax as all your everyday concerns melts away as you shift your focus on only one thing, achieving the perfect shot.

About Us

Since we had our first hunt as far back as 1951, our team has always been involved in not making every hunting trip on our property a successful one but also a memorable one. It is why our history speaks of one highlight after another and it is also why so many of our loyal hunters return every year to Westervelt Lodge, to break away from the rush of their normal lives to spend time in nature. It is a time to sharpen their skills and improve their hunting experience, always competing on their previous performance. Visit our website at http://westerveltlodge.com/ and see all we have to offer.

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