ORIGINAL: GMMAT
Get yourself a shotgun or muzzle loaderwith aniron sight, put out a bullseye target at 100yds, shoot at it without a rest (off hand) and report back with your results.
Now you go adding "off-hand" in there....lol. Guys..I'm watching the "You make the shot" segment, yesterday (TV hunting show)....and they discussed this very thing. The hunter had a rest. He was using a ML, iron sights.....and they said the 100yd shot wasn't that big of a deal. I don't know???? Don't care! Just figured they knew what they were taliking about.
I asked if the question was fair. I think it was.
No, it was a fair question and in some instances it is an easy shot.
I'll give you an example. My gun stand is a permanent structure set up over a field where deer move across it often. My stand is on a ridge and is easy to get silhouetted so I put up some plywood sides to it. They serve two purposes. One, the deer can't see me from my chest down and two the edge provides me with a great rest.
If I were to see a deer inside of 100yds It would be a fairly easy shot with iron sights. With my scoped slug gun add another 50yds to it. I also know the yardage over that fieldlike the back of my handas I've been hunting over it for close to 15 years now. So for me, in my situation, when a shooter deer presents itself I know instantly what yardage it is at (no matter where they appear) and have a stable platform to shoot from.
But there a lot of folks who don't have the luxury I do and put up the same stands they use (as do I) for bow hunting that have nothing to rest their gun on making that 100yd shot not so easy.
I guess what I'm trying to say is there are far too many variables to take into consideration to just say a 100 yard shot is easy with an iron sighted firearm.