I'm still waiting for a reply to my last post which was both a counter to your twisting things around that I've said , and also a question asking if you see the point I'm trying to make about your definition of a slob hunter.
Bow if you can read that article and find nothing in it that disturbs you then I seriously doubt I am going to be able to say anything to convince you. That doesn't mean you are right. It could just mean you are stubborn as hell.
Suffice it to say I think you are backing a losing horse to defend these suckers.
As for a definition of a "Slob Hunter". Well slob is derived from the word sloven for which one text book definition is: \Slov"en\, n. [D. slaf careless, negligent.
For me its someone that doesn't give a d@#*. Someone who is reckless, careless and negligent. What they don't dive a d@#$ about may vary. It could be safety related, ethics related or the fact that they can't hit a barn door at 50 yards yet do nothing to attempt to improve that situation. It could be people who often take shots at ranges that they have never practiced from. Or as described in that article it could just be people who take shots from ranges that are just too far period regardless of skill level. A man that continously shoots at a deer from a range that often takes him 20 or more shots to score a hit doesn't give a d@#* about the animals he is hunting. Doesn't care if wounds them and loses them; doesn't care if he blows a hole through and ruins both back hams; doesn't care if he condemns the animal to a slow horrible death from infection or even starvation depending on the nature of the injury. To me that labels him SLOB.
Rack also made a great point about the kind of energy a bullet has left at such ranges. The less energy a bullet has the more crucial shot placement becomes. Yet at those extreme ranges precise shot placement is a virtual impossibility. CAN YOU NOT SEE THE PROBLEMATIC TRUTH OF THAT PARADOX?
Another reckless aspect of what these guys are doing is the fact that at those ranges even with a spotter and some of the best optics on earth there is no way to always know you missed. A gut shot deer isn't going to cut a back flip especially when hit with a bullet that has nearly exhausted all its energy. Heck I've shot deer at 40 yards with a 30-06 that didn't act like they were hit at all. Only walking over to where they were standing and seeing the blood revealed the truth. Do these guys send a runner over to check after every deer they shoot at? I seriously doubt it.
Bottem line, these guys aren't hunting they are playing a game. A game with live targets that bleed.