For all of you that like these long shots at live animals that can and do move around unexpectedly try a little test to see how proficient you really are.
Take a car tire and fill the inside with foam and have someone roll it down a gentle hill. Stand at sixty yards and see how many times you can hit it. Now I know that most of you wouldn't take a shot at a moving animal from sixty yards but it will illustrate my point of how much an animal can really move and, more importantly, how much you can miss at that distance.
Try it and then post your results to us.
My buddy shot a elk at 67yds and the guy with him shot the other at 76yds.
I love these kinds of statements. My buddy did this and my buddy did that. No offence but who really cares what your "buddy" did. So someones "buddy" makes a 700 yard shot on an elk with a .308 does that mean that the vast majority should even consider attempting that shot? Absolutely not!!!!!!!!!
A 60 yard shot with a bow is equivalent to attempting a 600 yard shot with a 30-06 firing 180 grain bullets. It takes very close to the same ammount of time for the bullet to reach 600 yards as it takes an arrow to reach 60 yards. Both the arrow and bullet have close to the same trajectory and wind drift at those distances.We all strive for 1 moa with a rifle and we all strive for 1 inch group for every ten yards with a bow even though most of us can't achieve that under real world hunting conditions.
So how many here are proficient enough with a rifle to take a 600 yard shot with a 30-06?
Oh yeah, and by the way manboy, I haven't liked you from the get go so you aren't hurting my feelings any if you don't like me.