WOW!! I started to actually read through all 17 pages of posts, then decided to scan through them. I am a little disturbed, to say the least. I don't want to step on any toes or make enemies, seeing as how this is my first post ever here. I heard that this was a great forum and wanted to join.
First of all, who is to say what is ethical for each and every hunter?? I am a new hunter myself, but I don't recall being "taught" or learning that there was a distance cutoff for hunting. I thought that a particular hunter's skill level is what determined what was ethical for them.
I have simultaneously shot under 6 inches at a target 1000 yards away- does this make me just lucky? Just in December I shot and killed a hog at over 400 yards. Does this make me an unethical person?
I'm not sitting here saying that everyone should or needs to "shoot" or "hunt" long distances, but if they feel comfortable with it and can do it successfully, why not? No one can say that there are no misses on short range shots either!! Now that would be a load of BS!
Being a "girl," I can see that there is a lot of chest beating going on here. What's wrong with just congratulating a guy who did something that not alot of people can do?
To each his own is right. Everyone hunts or "shoots" in their own special way. I hunt short and long ranges- just depends on where I'm at.