I am like most people on here - where I hunt the game until I can get close enough to make a good shot.

If you can make a 50 to 100 yard shot, there is no reason to shoot 500 yards.

Now if I was on one side of a ravine and the elk was on the other and it was the last day of hunting season and I thought that I could get the elk out - if I shot it and killed it. I would have no problems shooting 500 or even 700 yards - if my optics were good and my bullets were good and my rest was steady.

What upset me was that I was a member of a long range forum and there were people on there that had camera's and tape measures and range finders and the best rifles and optics. That said that THEY HAD TO SHOOT AN ELK AT 900 YARDS. If I was lugging around 100 to 200 lbs. of equipment - just so I could document that I shot an elk at X amount of yards. Then I would leave all that JUNK at home and just hunt alone - and get to a range - where I could ethically shoot an elk. Or I would just forget about it and hunt something else like BUNNY RABBIT'S!

A 300 Winchester Short Magnum has a lot more muzzle velocity and down range velocity than a regular old 30 / 06 Springfield and they had accuracy records in the military that stood for 50 years. 1000 yard target shots were not any big deal and could be done by most any sharp shooter in the Army.

But that person was TRAINED by the military to make those kind of shots and that was their job and they shot every day of the week. Not like some weekend warriors that sits ata desk every day and hunts one week out of the year and thinks that they are Daniel Boone.