As much as I love a close range hunt(bow or firearm), there is a different type of excitement that exists whenkilling a game animal at long range.... weather it be a whistle pig at 400yds or a trophy whitetail.

Ok, there's 180 inches of mohagany, 400 yards out,standing in a 200 acre field of harvested horsecorn in Iowa.....lets see, I'd be laying in the prone position, bi-pod opened on the 300Win-mag, hat turned backwards, tip of finger gently on the trigger......exhaling veeeeeery sloooowly...........and happier than a hog in doodie.

It kinda happened that way on a muledeer/antelope hunt inWyoming. My friend Ron and I crawled about200 yards or so in wet snow, through a herd of cows(funny as hell and very hard not to laugh) on The TTT ranch. After about 45 minutes of that, we reachedour goal. Itwas the edge of a ravine where6 or eight muleys weregrazing on the other side of it...one of which was ahuge 5x5.I didn't think twice about it. I used the fence post as a rest and put the cross-hairs of the 300 right on the line of thedeers back(knowing it was roughly 400 yds).....and pulled. The buck droppedin the scope faster than the gun blast echoed through the ravine. While retrieving the animal, our guide ranged it at 420 yds.

I really enjoyed that hunt. It was different for me because Iusually never get a chance to shoot that far in wide open plains. There wasdefinatelyfeelingof accomplishmentand excitement, and would shoot that far againin a heartbeat.