19 Terms
Contributors in Sporting events
Sporting events
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.
