Practice From Various Positions

[R AJ]

Try from your normal position and then from unsupported or awkward
positions and see how well you do. Good practice and may help in knowing if you should take that shot or not.

[K31Swiss]

Good advice. I had so many deer come up on my right I learned to shoot my rifle left handed. Hopefully I can figure out which way a turkeys gonna come from before he gets close  but you never know.

[Longshanks]

Try from your normal position and then from unsupported or awkward
positions and see how well you do. Good practice and may help in knowing if you should take that shot or not.

Fantastic advice! That was a real learning experience for me the first time I did that. Especially with some of my tight patterning guns. Factors in a real element of human factor when hunting. Friend of mine suggested for me when I was in my 20's to sit at the base of a tree motionless for 20-30 min and throw up and shoot and see how well i do. I can promise it was different than shooting off the bench at the gun range.

[chatterbox]

Very good advice, Robert!
I set my gun up on the bench, but do my shooting from my gobblerlounger. It is much more comfortable, and I want to know what my gun is doing when I'm sitting in the woods, so I practice how I hunt.

[J-Shaped]

Good, and often overlooked advice. I shot a bird last year laying almost flat on my side and completely twisted around.

The thought of shooting a 3.5" 12ga left-handed makes me cringe, though  One of my buddies did it on a bird a few seasons back and when he came to his mouth call was laying in the pine needles about 3 feet away, his face was bloodied and his bird was laying in pile of feathers in the middle of a logging road, less about 90% of it's beard - but he made the most of the opportunity and got him