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8 Awesomely Bad Shooting Tips

In an effort to rid the firearms world of damaging misconceptions and downright bad advice, we surveyed eight professional shooters and writers to get their best examples of shooting tips gone wrong. Learn them, know them and be sure to scold anyone who has the gall to offer up any of these awesomely bad instructions.

Shooting Uphill and Down

Learn how to hold for steep uphill and downhill shots.

The Long Shot

As a general rule it seems that the less field experience a given pundit has, the more he is in favor of taking pokes at critters nearly a mile away.

Inside Aimpoint's Sportsman Shooting Center

Aimpoint’s Sportsman Shooting Center (SSC)—the United States’ first indoor hunting shooting center—opened Sept. 21, 2013 at Grapevine, Texas. SSC provides the opportunity for shooters to practice on dynamic hunting scenarios inside an air-conditioned, live-fire cinema range using their own rifles and ammunition.

Browning's New Shooting Apparel

Browning continues to expand its line of shooting apparel and accessories to give the avid shooter more quality products.

Rifle Shooting Practice: A Day at the Range

Deer season is right around the corner, and if you're like many off-season hunters, you're long overdue for a tune-up at the range.

5 Pre-Season Bowshooting Tips

As I show in the accompanying video, as the season approaches you need to shoot often to build strength and to make good shooting habits.

How to Follow the U.S. Olympic Shooting Team

The Rio Olympics open this coming Friday, August 5, and you can bet that USA Shooting is ready. In the case that you're interested in following along with the action—much of which will be streamed online by NBC's Olympics website—we've put together a schedule of events for you.

Training to Shoot from Field Positions: Prone, Sitting, Kneeling and Standing

A comprehensive guide to correctly executing four formal shooting positions in the field.

Why You Missed: Top 8 Most Common Shotgun Mistakes

Wait, you missed again? Time to take a break and see if you're suffering from some of shooting's most common bad habits.

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