ORIGINAL: RugerMike
Unbelievable?
If you can't get closer to game than 500yards?
Change your stalking tactics?
Just my opinion?
Now if your target shooting ONLY, then that is a different story,HOWEVER some think that just because their target rifle with group at 500,600,700, ... They can take game in adverse conditions the same way? NOT!
Get real it ain't going to happen, PERIOD!!!
Your just going to miss or worst yet, wound game animals.
Please reconsider your options?!?
You've never been to the plains in SD, you can see deer for 2 miles in WIDE OPEN territory here.... I shot my rifle deer this year at 516 yards with my 7mm Rem Mag. There is no stalking unless you can sneak on a fully alert deer in FLAT ground with no cover and snow....
Then again, I shoot more at 300+ yards preparing for season than most guys spend sighting in their rifles. I have no objection to shooting past 500 yards, becuase I know when I squeeze off a round its a dead critter at the end of my barrel.