ORIGINAL: akbound
What many people tried, in vain, to point out is that they required "different skills" and that maybe the level of the "hunting skill" required to "set up the long shot" was not any less of an achievement.
I don't know how many more times I can say it before you will either read it or understand it. I already said numerous times that there is a big difference between someone busting hump just to get that shot and someone who just pops a squat with a great view and snipes. You seem unable to comprehend this fact because you keep repeating "What about the guy who works hard to set up that shot" I don't know what else to tell you.
(The fact of the matter is one of the biggest bucks I ever shot I did so as he snuck under my 12' high tree stand and he may have been 15 yards at the shot. He was really close....and it had taken very little skill on my part. I had been placed on a stand by "draw" on a Federal Installation. He was close...and he was easy. So how skilled was that?
Not very.........but so what?? A LOT of successful hunts are not the result of super skilled woodsman. Guys get lucky, deer get pushed and sometimes you are in the right place at the right time. Getting the drop on a deer 15 yards away at least takes SOME hunting skill. If you make even a small noise or move too quick he is gone.
the deer killed at long range....required "no hunting skills".
I asked you to tell me what hunting skill is used to sit in a blind/fort/stand and snipe a deer 400 yards away??? Hunting skill.......not shooting skill. You did nothing before hand.......it's a friends fort and he said you could come shoot a deer because he knows your a good shot.