RE: Talk about long-range shooting...read this
I'll say that 99.9% of deer hunters out there have no business shooting anywhere beyond 400 yards, if that far.
I'm a former USMC expert rifleman, almost set the new Corps' shooting record one day in '88. (I'm really not that good, and it would have been a fluke, but I was hot that day.) Thus, I have experience shooting at 500 yards, but on big game I consider my max range to be 300 yards. Long range shooting may be great for putting lead into an enemy on a battlefield, but in my opinion has no place in the ethical harvest of a game animal.