It seems to me that too many folks are quick to label someone "slob hunters" because it's not the way they prefer to do it.
Sorry but anytime you put your finger on the trigger to attempt a shot at a deer that you are only able to make 1 out of 10 or 1 out of 50 times you are being reckless and showing a blatant disregard for hunting ethics. The distance itself is not the issue. The distance at which a man can consistently hit the kill zone on an animal may vary greatly from person to person but EVERYONE should know their own range and stay within it. If these SLOBS are capable of being off enough to cleanly miss 10 or more times at this distance then they are clearly attempting shots beyond their ethical range and are certainly going to also miss just enough to wound and maim animals as well. And probably more often than they would like to admit. Lord knows how many deer they maim each year.
Its one thing to stick together as hunters but God help us if we censure ourselves to the point that we are scared to call a spade a spade. If this story is inaccurate well thats one thing and if you have evidence of that then show it, but the actions described in this story are just wrong and nobody short of God or Jesus will brow beat me into thinking differently. Want to see if you can hit something 1100 yards away? Go to a shooting range. But when it comes to game animals "KNOW" you can make the shot or don't attempt it at all.
Man, most of you are making it sound like these are some beer swilling slob hunters who do nothing but make every hunter look bad.
I don't recall the article mentioning beer but other than that, yes thats exactly what they are.
O.K. So your saying because they love the challenge of long range shooting their "slob hunters"?
No there are plenty of people who love the challenge of long range shooting that are the best and brightest among us. 99 percent of them however make a clear distinction between extreme long range "TARGET SHOOTING" and "HUNTING". Its one thing to see "IF" you can hit a silhouette target from 1000 yards away and another thing entirely to see "IF" you can hit a real deer 1000 yards away. It doesn't matter if you hit a silhouette target in the a$$, leg or blow the tip of its nose off. The animals we hunt however deserve a little more respect than that.
Typical! IMO , it's hunters with attitudes like yours that will do the most damage to hunting!
No its jackasses like the trigger happy, gung ho, so what if we him'em in the a$$, yahoo slobs in that article that hurt the image of hunters nationwide. Look at the overwhelmingly negative reaction that we hunters have had to this article. Now imagine what a neutral person would think of those guys? And you want me to stick up for them? To defend them to all the neutral people and non hunters out there? Sorry but those guys are not representative of me or my values. In fact if they were to set up shop near me their aim would probably be even more adversely affected by my foot hanging out of their a$$.