I agree, practice makes perfect, and knowing your equiptment is everything, but there still has be limitations to all of this. For instance I shoot a-lot of 3-D targets with my Bow, I regularry practice out to 70yds because most of the longest 3-D targets are 50+-yds, so practicing at 70yds makes them 50yd shots easy.
Now I know this is with my Bow but I can 6 out of 10 times out the arrow in the 10 ring at 70yds, the rest are solid 10's. I know the yardage so all I have to do is aim and make the shot. I would never consider a shot at 70yds with my bow even if I ranged it and knew it was 70, too much can happen, and Im even sure that if I held high enough my bow could take a deer out at 150yds, but I'd never try that one either.
Now back to 300, I'd take this shot any day of the week with a rifle, it would be a good shot but no where near a unheard of shot, just because the rifle can shoot 2,000yds and more, does'nt mean Im going to take a shot at 2000yds just because it can shoot that far, I'd stick to a 500-600yd shot max. With a MLer it's not a rifle and a 300yd shot would be pushing it, even though you can hit the bull on the target at 300 still does,nt mean that just because you can do it, it's good to try the shot.
Just because you car has a speedometer that says it'll do 140 or faster, does'nt mean going that fast is a good thing to do.
I have nothing wrong with shots taken out to 200yds with a MLer, and even though you can punch the bull at 300yds with a MLer, remember it's just paper and not a real animal.
These comments are ment for no one, the express how I feel about my equiptment and what it's capable of reguardless of how good I can shoot or how far my equiptment shoots.
If it was me I'd put more time into figuring out how to get closer to the game than trying to accomplish shooting at it further. Now if there were no trees or brush or anything for the deer to hide behind or in, and it was nothing but wide open fields where we had to belly crawl to get within 300yds of a deer without it seeing us and running off, then yes I'd have to take 300yd shots, that's saying I could'nt use a rifle to do it and only my MLer.
(BP)