Distance plays a vital role in field shooting. When theaspiring hunter takes to the field for practice, one of thenecessary things to learn is to estimate distances; this requireswork, judgment, and patience. The best way to acquire thisknowledge is to pick out an object, make a mental guess of itsdistance, then count the paces to it. By practice, one can learnto regulate ones pace to 36 inches. I know archers who canpace a hundred yards and not be off as much as one foot byactual measurement. Every time one shoots at an object atan unknown distance, one should pace it off when the arrow
is recovered. By constant practice one will learn to estimatedistances with reasonable accuracy. Objects up hill appearfarther away, down hill they look closer. In thick cover ofwoods, objects appear farther away. They seem to be muchcloser when looking across water. When you are able to makereasonably accurate estimates of distances under all normalconditions, you are much closer to successful hunting.
