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Hunters should make sure their guns shoot accurately. There's a sight in session set for this weekend at the Camillus Sportsmen's Club.

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<p><br /><div id="asset-11840060" class="entry_widget_large entry_widget_right"><span class="adv-photo-large"><img height="254" width="380" src="http://media.syracuse.com/outdoors/photo/11840060-large.jpg" class="adv-photo" alt="2012-11-07-mg-gun1.JPG" /><span class="photo-data"><span class="byline">Michelle Gabel/The Post-Standard</span><span class="caption">BILL PARFITT,president of the Camillus Sportsmen’s Club, demonstrates how to sight in a shotgun to make sure it’s shooting straight. <br /></span></span><span class="photo-bottom-left"><!-- IE6 HACK --></span><span class="photo-bottom-right"><!-- IE6 HACK --></span></span></div><br /> Are you a member of the gang that can’t shoot straight?</p>

<p>If you’re a hunter, it may not be you. It might be your gun.</p>

<p>Opening day of the firearms season for deer hunting in the Southern Zone is Nov. 17. If you haven’t already, it’s time to sight-in your gun, making sure it’s working properly and shoots where you want it to.</p>

<p>A good place to do that is your local rod and gun club, with assistance from experienced shooters. This weekend, the Camillus Sportsmen’s Club is offering public sight-in sessions.</p>

<p>“We’ve been doing this here for more than 20 years,” said Dick Masterpole, who organizes the event for the club.</p>

<p>The sessions are scheduled from 9:30 to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at the club, located at 5801 Devoe Road. Shooters will be charged $3 for the first gun, and $1 for every additional firearm. Participants will be assigned to club members to oversee their actions.</p>

<p>Shooters will be set up on a bench and shoot sitting down, resting their firearm on a sandbag.</p>

<p>The idea is to get at least three shots in a “group” — within a couple of inches of each other on a target. If you’re shooting high, low or to the left or right, your iron sights or scope may need to be adjusted.</p>

<p>In the cases of shotguns with bird barrels, where there’s just a bead at the end of the barrel for aiming, the shooter will have to learn to shoot his or her firearm using “Kentucky windage.”</p>

<p>“You can’t adjust anything. So if you’re gun is shooting low, you learn to aim it high. Shooting to the left, you aim to the right and so forth,” Masterpole said.</p>

<p>In regard to ammunition, Masterpole recommended that shooters use the same brand when sighting in their guns that they do when hunting. Guns can drastically change in their shooting accuracy from one brand to another.</p>

<p>“Also, not all guns will shoot everything,” he said. “It pays to do a little research before coming.”</p>

<p>Masterpole stressed that safety is the top concern at the sessions.</p>

<p>“You can only load up when you’ve been assigned a bench. No one is allowed to shoot unless a club member is by their side,” Masterpole said.</p>

<p>Last year, during the Saturday morning session, an 8-point buck walked across the range.</p>

<p>“It happens every year,” Masterpole said. “They were born and live (in the nearby woods) here. The shooting from the range doesn’t bother them a bit. We just call a cease-fire when it happens.”</p>

<p><strong>For more </strong>Call the Camillus Sportsmen’s Club at 672-8331 or Dick Masterpole at 963-8974. </p>

<div id="asset-11840063" class="entry_widget_large entry_widget_right"><span class="adv-photo-large"><img height="257" width="380" src="http://media.syracuse.com/outdoors/photo/11840063-large.jpg" class="adv-photo" alt="2012-11-07-mg-gun2.JPG" /><span class="photo-data"><span class="byline">Michelle Gabel/The Post-Standard</span><span class="caption">Parfitt checks out his shots on a target.</span></span><span class="photo-bottom-left"><!-- IE6 HACK --></span><span class="photo-bottom-right"><!-- IE6 HACK --></span></span></div>

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