Do you practice shot your rifle before the hunt season

I shoot my hunting rifles all year round. I handload as well so I'm usually testing different loads as well.

I shoot all year also. Mostly .22 but each fall I do take out whatever deer rifle I plan to use and put a box of rounds through it.

One thing to add, I start with it well cleaned, make sure it is right on, then clean it again, then just before the hunt, a couple of fouling rounds down the tube with the ammo I will be using, and then don't touch the bore until after the hunt.

Probably most of the regulars on this board shoot year round.

I shoot all year round mostly shotguns and 22. My hunting rifles a few times during the summer.

Going through a box of clay pigeons is a great way to unwind.
Can't practice on a live target.

Practice? No, I don't. However I do go to the pit and set my bench and target up along with all the other paraphernalia that goes with sighting a rifle in. I always make sure the rifle/scope is set up properly before the season begins. After the season, the rifle is put away until the next year. I'm not an avid shooter, but I do believe in making sure all is sighted in prior to use during the hunt.

While I don't get out to shoot as much as I would like anymore, I wouldn't even consider hunting with a gun that wasn't properly sighted in. Usually at a minimum, that's done a couple of weeks before the opener. Like PaulR, I like to leave the barrel fouled.

I used to hunt with a guy (friend of a friend in camp) that showed up with a shiny new rifle one year. When I asked him how it shot, he shrugged and said "they bore-sighted it for me at the shop, it should hit fine". Not the first guy I've heard that from either.

Having been smacked in the face with the core of training methods by a friend so many years ago, I am a huge proponent of 'Currency and Proficiency'. The skill of shooting effectively is perishable contrary to popular belief. The mechanics of sighting, breathing and trigger squeeze need to be rehearsed regularly.
So yes, I practice as much as I can to make sure I have the confidence and feel to be able to make a good shot to dispatch game humanely. I reload like many others have posted to save a few pennies on practicing. All the other benefits are gravy. :)

Any true hunter would!

And if they have time mutilpe times throughout the year would improve and have to 'rust' to shake off lol