Basic Shooting & Hunting Skills

Good Marksmanship is

Sight alignment is

To help you steady the rifle when you’re ready to shoot, draw a deep breath and

The proper technique for pulling the trigger when firing a rifle is to

Of the four standard rifle firing positions, the steadiest is the ______________________________________________________ position.

All handguns should be fired at ________________ length.

If you are hunting small, fast, close birds, the best choke selection would be _______________ or ________________ choke.

When patterning a shotgun, the goal is to produce a pattern of pellets with even _________ and a sufficient percentage of the __________ within a 30-inch circle.

What shotgun-shooting technique is best for a beginning hunter and is performed by pointing at a moving target, and then moving past it and firing?

A common error when hunting birds with a shotgun is