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Windage unit

Hunting & fishing; Sporting events

On more expensive sights you can move the whole sight assembly left or right (windage) to zero in your point of impact. Cheaper sights have individually adjustable pins for "windage" adjustment.

Windage

Hunting & fishing; Sporting events

The horizontal point of impact of a bullet. When sighting in a rifle, the shooter must adjust the windage of the rifle if its point of impact is to the left or right of center. Its vertical ...

Wrangler

Hunting & fishing; Sporting events

The employee in an outfitting service or on a ranch that is responsible for caring for livestock, catching and saddling horses.

Woodlot

Hunting & fishing; Sporting events

A small plot of land on which trees are grown and cut, which often provides good hunting for squirrels.

Wolf tree

Hunting & fishing; Sporting events

A large spreading tree, often an oak or beech, which has multiple cavities in its branches and trunk that provide refuge for squirrels.

Withers

Hunting & fishing; Sporting events

The ridge on a horse's back just above its shoulders. A good hunting horse has fairly high withers so that the saddle doesn't slip off to the side.

Yearling

Hunting & fishing; Sporting events

An animal that is in its second year of life. A spike bull elk, for example, is a yearling that is 1 1/2 years old in the fall of its second year.

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