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Thanks for explaining the situation. It was a rare one I' m sure you will admit. Most hunters (99.9%) should not even think about attempting such a shot. You said a very KEY thing, " conditions were absolutely perfect" . When ever a hunter takes any shot he should feel that conditions are absolutely perfect to attempt that shot. Then wounded animals would be a very rare thing.

My longest shot was on a walking coyote at 480 paces (no range finders in those days). I was using a .264 win. mag. with my scope turned up to 9 power. The fact that he was walking made the shot extra tricky (and the success some what lucky). I had the horizontal wire on his nose and moved the vertical just ahead of his nose as I squeesed. Hit him in the chest.

I once shot a white-tailed buck with my .58 cal. muzzleloader at what I paced to be 213 paces. I had been shooting that gun quite a lot that year but there was probably more good luck than good management on that shot.

Robin