My rifles are capable of very good groups from a bench on a good day. Great groups fired from a bench do not directly translate to venison, unless one shoots deer from a bench. Shooting from a small wooden tree stand is a bit more of a challenge. Finding a rest in the woods is a challenge.

The most consistent buck hunteri know is not a dedicated shooter: He is a very good and dedicated hunter. Every yearbefore muzzleloader season he brings his Knight to the range and fires two or three shots.Most times his bullets strike withintwo or three inches of the three inch bullseye at 100 yards, and he goes home.i have seen a lot of his deer and every one of them was 140 points or over.

If shooting small groupsfrom a bench translated to venison they would call it deer shooting: But for various complicated reasons it is still called deer hunting.