This dude is good with a rifle

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I watched that a few times. Not my cup of tea. Looks like a hunt for the incredibly wealthy. I'm sure that rifle is several thousand dollars.
 
I watched that a few times. Not my cup of tea. Looks like a hunt for the incredibly wealthy. I'm sure that rifle is several thousand dollars.
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I thought just the opposite, it looks like something the average Texan could do with his deer rifle. Just with a lot more misses, that guy is way quick and accurate. At least after the editing, before editing who knows.

Thanks for posting, I've never seen it.
 
I saw another video of him practicing in a big indoor range that has a video screen. He was using his regular rifle, and when he shot there was recoil, smoke, and ejected brass. Not sure how the screen logs the hits.
 
Looks like a hunt for the incredibly wealthy. I'm sure that rifle is several thousand dollars
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The fact that he's using an expensive rifle doesn't mean that the skills can only be had with an expensive rifle. He knows how to work the rifle and keep on target while he works it, and that's a skill borne of practice - not a skill that can be 'bought'.
 
That guy has definitely been practicing, though they do take many running shots in Europe as they have deer and hog drives. That's still great shooting.
 
His shooting was posted several years ago. He used at least 2 different optics. The first one was a Dot sight (looked like an Aimpoint), the second was a tube scope. But do not know if it has a dot too.

He's hunting/shooting in an over populated hog area for sure.
 
A skilled man regardless of rifle. Not sure if the Running boar or deer are still Olympic events but I would bet he competes in events like them or at least he should.
 
I've seen that before, very impressive and proof that anyone willing to learn to work a bolt rifle can do it fast. Five hogs down in 6 seconds. I can get off multiple shots as fast with my bolt guns, but I'm not nearly as accurate. especially on running stuff.

Looks like a hunt for the incredibly wealthy.
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If anything the opposite is true. Most people will beg you to come kill hogs for free. You can easily spend $40K on a brown bear hunt in Alaska not counting taxidermy fees.
 
That was in Germany.
And yes, The guy is really good.

But if I'm not mistaken, you have to be better then average to pass the shooting test in order to get a hunting permit in Germany.

Shooting running targets is part of the test to get a permit to hunt in some Europein country's.

On, the other hand, the guy may be a professional shooter on somebody's Olympic or factory team or something?

rc
 
My brother participated in drive hunts in Germany when he was stationed there in the Army. So you don't necessarily need deep pockets to participate. But, you have to be connected and well liked. They place the best shooters in the best places because the goal is to cull the herd. My brother was one of their best shooters for pheasants and rabbits. Of course the pheasant shooting was with a shotgun, but the rabbit shooting was mostly rifle. He got good enough to hit running rabbits with his Sako .223, which was loaded with a specific round. He absolutely loved it!!
 
Thats Prince Franz-Albrecht Oettingen-Spielberg shooting in the video. He shoots with a Sauer 202 built to his spec in 270 topped with a Aimpoint hunter sight. He's also shooting a Merkel Helix with a Aimpoint micro.

I shoot a lot of moving targets down the range and like to think I'm on a par with young Franz. But sadly its only in my dreams;).
 
gspn said:
I saw another video of him practicing in a big indoor range that has a video screen. He was using his regular rifle, and when he shot there was recoil, smoke, and ejected brass. Not sure how the screen logs the hits.
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The same way electronic targets used at the CMP shoots log hits.
 
OK, young Prinz Franz-Albrecht is damn good with his $10,000 worth of specialized semi-bolt action boar hunting rifles.

However, is he better than a Texas hog hunter with an M-14 (M1A), 20 round magazines and tons of practice shooting hogs? Especially if this Texan also had a ton of practice with clay targets for target in motion practice?

Maybe the young prince would like some backup on the long shots. It looks like his shots were less than 100 yards, maybe less than 50 yards even. Perhaps someone who has practiced on the 600 yard alley at the George H.W. Bush Wildlife Sanctuary range in Houston with an M-14 would be just the ticket.

It could happen. Especially since Franz-Albrecht is the same linguistic construction as Billy-Bob, Jim-Bob, Jim-Pat, Bobby-Lee, etc in American (as spoken in and around Texas). Just saying. :)
 
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Not knocking it, but the aimpoint makes it a little easier. Watch his cheek weld, its not always consistent...
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A shotgun might make it a little easier but lots of folks could not match the results.

Regardless of equipment there is talent and skill within.

He is not diving or figure skating form is down on the list vs results with what he is doing.

Edited video for sure but there are more DRT shots on boars in that video than many hunters will make in a lifetime.
 
Impressive shooting. What I found most impressive was his ability to ignore all of the hogs except the one he's shooting at the moment. From what I have seen on other shooters' videos, it is difficult to pick one hog out of a fast-moving group without being distracted by the others.
 
Pretty much like quail hunting!

You can shoot at all of them each time, and miss them all every time each shot.

Or you can lock in on one or two in each covey rise and kill a lot of quail in a few hours.

Regardless, that guy is damn good with a rifle!

And probably has spent a lot of hours on a running bore range in his back yard to practice with.

rc
 
That guy is a machine.

I have never seen shooting like that on running game. Even some of the shots I thought were misses were hits.
 
Ton Givens a week and a half ago was broadcasting from the equivalent of European SHOT show. He had guests who talked a fair bit about hunting in Germany and their annual qualifications and their initial hunting license testing. It is very extensive.
 
DeepSouth, Google, Merkel Helix re: semi bolt.
Young franz is is very fast with the Sauer 202 a normal bolt gun. I've seen people down the range shoot as fast, getting 3 shots in the scoring ring on the running moose target in one pass. Done it a few times myself with my Mauser M03. It just take practise.
The German hunting test is thorough as is the Swedish hunting test but neither
test turns out super hunters or great shots.
 
Deep South

Semi-bolt is a single shot automatic. It has the innards of a semi-auto except you have to pull the bolt back to actuate the mechanism. The bolt doesn't go up and down just back and forth. It exists because the hunting laws of Germany don't allow semi autos.

When American teams competed in running game targets in the Olympics, the hot setup was a pump action Remington in .223. Right now, the big bucks setup for running hogs is an AR-10 in .308 with an infrared scope for night hunting. American hogs go nocturnal under heat and hunting pressure here in the USA.

If Prinz Franz-Albrecht were an American, he would probably be using a pump or lever action rifle. The guns he is using are pretty specialized for driven hog shooting in Europe. :)
 
What I found most impressive was his ability to ignore all of the hogs except the one he's shooting at the moment. From what I have seen on other shooters' videos, it is difficult to pick one hog out of a fast-moving group without being distracted by the others.
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Ain't that the truth!

I saw this video a few months ago and am still in awe.

This guy probably shoots clay pigeons in the air with that rifle.
 
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