ORIGINAL: mdbohuntr
But, you weren't there and really have absolutely NO idea what the actual light was at 5:15 in that particular place.
Now there you go busting on NY. How do you know that had he posted on that thread he might have asked that question to clear it up and it would have been over if the right answer was offered up?
But to think that you know better than that guy about shooting light when you weren't even there is really funny to me.
Point that to me as I missed where that was said. You see, this is how things get going. In your post alone you made two acuzations and it just piles on after that.
Well you can hypothesize all you want about what he MIGHT have said had he posted on a different thread. But what NY said was it was too dark to shoot at 5:15 and there was "no way" he would take that shot. My point was simply that how the heck could he POSSIBLY know if in that place at that time it was too dark to shoot? He can't because he wasn't there. He doesn't even know if "official sunset" time is geographically correct at that place. Given the east-west expanse of every time zone, and the effect of hills, etc. in some places actual sunsets are a little earlier or later than "official". That is why I would never presume to flatly state it was too late to shoot if I wasn't there.
Like I said, I'm very quick to quit shooting when it gets dark, so I imagine that NY and myself would tend to agree on whether it was too dark - IF we were there. I'd bet we are veryclose to what we would or wouldn't do as far as taking a shot. He strikes me as being very conservative in that regard, and that to me is one of the most respectable things a hunter can be.
But neither of us were there - yet he chose to state flatly that it was too dark to shoot. My point was that he simplycouldn't know. If that was busting on him, I'm sorry for that, but to me it's pretty cut and dried: the only way you can know if it is light enough to take a shot is to be sitting in that place at that time.
Sorry to stir things up, but I still think I'm right [:@]