I'm with you on that and I shoot off a camera tripod out there to make sure of my shots. It's mainly because my eyes are getting bad as I get into my mid 60s and not because any of my rifles won't take an animal way past that 300 yards you mentioned. IMHO there are an awful lot of people that I see on my Wyoming trips that are shooting at much longer distances than they should be, especially on small antelope, and many are doing it freehand! That tells me they don't know much or don't care and are not being fair to the animals they are hunting.