Can I Become A Better Hunter
First, let’s address the people who say “No, video game hunting cannot improve your real life hunting skills.” Their main complaint with this is that the situations that video games put you in do not mimic real life situations. The deer don’t appear as quickly, the size of the prey is not as large, and the skills required aren’t as particular as what you need to do in the real field. For example, to operate a real bow and arrow, you need to be able to load the bow into the arrow and then pull back the string all the while holding it steady enough to find your target. With a video game, you just have to hit a series of buttons to load and shoot. You don’t have to be as steady and it’s much quicker than it would be in the field. The same applies for a gun. You have to know how to load and shoot the gun with precise accuracy while with a video game, you just point and click. For those who don’t think that video games can improve your real hunting skills say that pointing and clicking a gun is very, very different from doing the same thing on a video game. They very well could be right. There is no recoil to contend with from the gun, and aiming in real life requires much more precision than you have to employ in the field. You only have a few bullets in real life – of course, depending on what type of gun you use – but with hunting games, you can quickly re-load with an endless amount of ammunition. Yes, it is true that the game on video games appear quicker and are larger than in real life. That is one of the things that people like about video hunting games – they are given the opportunity to shoot larger targets and different types of animals that they would not normally be able to hunt. So this argument is really not one that can, or should be included, in a discussion of real life hunting skills and video games. However, we felt we should include it in this section because it is brought up. Now, let’s switch over to those people who do feel like playing video hunting games can improve your real-life hunting skills. There are actually a lot of ways that playing video hunting games can make your real-life hunting skills just a little bit better – but in subtle ways. First, as in real-life, you have to patience with video game hunting. Despite what some people might say, you do have to lay in wait for your prey to appear. They don’t just pop up one after another as in a duck shooting game at your local county fair. There are certain signs that you have to look for and find places that the prey have been and then go towards those signs to try and find them. That means, that playing video hunting games teaches you patience as well as tracking skills that truly can transfer into real life. Video game manufacturers strive to make the video game hunting experience as close to real life as possible. That means putting down deer tracks – or whatever you are hunting – and making you look for the deer instead of waiting for them to come to you. As with real-life hunting, you will have to wait for you prey to come around if you don’t want to track them. That often means sitting in a deer stand, in the dark and the cold, being completely quiet and listening closely for signs of incoming prey. Video games mimic the same situation – without the cold and the silence (dark is optional!) Hunting can be stressful and your adrenaline can really rise to amazing proportions when you get a huge buck in your sight and you anticipate shooting him. The body’s normal reaction is to produce a huge amount of adrenaline that will give you an immense amount of energy that you HAVE to contain in real-life hunting situations. When you play hunting video games, this adrenaline rush will still be there – especially if you are really into video game hunting! If you let that adrenaline rush get to you, you will not be able to bag your prey. This is a perfect opportunity to practice keeping your cool as you wait for the perfect shot. If you are interested in real-life hunting for things like turkey and geese, you can use special man-made tools that will mimic the cry of these animals. Video hunting games also allow you to use these types of “calls” as they are known in the hunting world. By playing video hunting games, you can become more familiar with the sounds of different animals and make you realize what you are hearing when you are out in the forest! Of course, there is a very slim chance that video game creators can effectively mimic the way a weapon works. There are a lot of different aspects of various weapons that are difficult to duplicate through a video game controller. However, there are still things you can learn from playing hunting video games that you can take back into the field with you regarding weapons. First and foremost, you will become familiar with various types of weapons. Of course, here we should say that if you do not know weapons before you hunt, you probably shouldn’t be hunting in earnest in the first place. However, playing these types of games can familiarize you with hunting weapons, but it cannot replace actually getting out there and using those weapons. To a certain extent, you will be able to work on your aim. A video game controller will give you a very lifelike replication of the crosshairs you will see through the scope of a gun or the way a peep sight looks on a bow and arrow. That means you can become familiar with what these tools are like to use and then take them into the field when you are hunting “for real”. Different weapons can perform in different ways. That means that there are some weapons that can do certain types of “damage” as opposed to others. While you will not be able to really, truly realize the ability of various weapons without actually seeing them perform, again, you can at least get an idea from a video game. That means you can learn things like how far a shotgun shell can go, what distance you need to be at in order to inflict damage, the trajectory of an arrow, and much more. A shotgun shell will do much more damage than a single bullet from a pistol. Video games really do mimic the way regular weapons fire and inflict their damage! So, there really is no definitive answer to whether or not video games can improve your performance as a real-life hunter. We believe that it is really up to the person what he or she gets out of training – and video game hunting really can be looked at as a training session for real-life hunting outings. The decision is up to you. Of course, as we have told you, hunting video games have come a long way from the very first Duck Hunt game. Now you have a lot of choices for your video hunting games – no matter what video game platform you are playing on! Let’s look at a few of them! |
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