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400 yard trophy?
02-05-2007, 12:31 PM
#161
Join Date: Aug 2006
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RE: 400 yard trophy?
Please tell me you're kidding about the maturity remark. Anyway, what is ridiculous about a 1000 yd shot? Given the proper equipment, technique, and practice 1000 yds is very do-able. I'm not there yet, but it's fun to push your limits. As for a sniper wannabe, I don't think so. I spent 6 yrs working for good ol' uncle sam, and that's one job that never really appealed to me. What will you do to expand your horizons once you get to the point that getting to within 20 yds of a whitetail is no longer a challenge?
ORIGINAL: M77man
Ha ha, pebble sized mind, now that's funny....I guess?
Anyway, I'llbethe first to admit that I am an in-experienced hunter having hunted from a tower blind with a 300 yard firing lane for the past few years nowusing either a 7mm Rem Mag or a 30-06 and to be honest, a 300 yard shot is rather easy with a 7 Mag. But a 1000 yard shot? C'mon you have to admit that's ridiculous. And it's obvious that we have "sniper" wann-a-be's onhere.All I am saying, is that I personally would rather learn how to stalk and hunt then sit from a tower and shoot at long range. 400 yards is fine. Actually, if it were the trophy of a life time I would take a shot at 500 yards but not much further.
Please try to showsome more maturity in your posts in the future also.
Be with Jesus bra
ORIGINAL: kingofspring
Brother, I've taken more deer inside of 20 yards with a rifle and bow than most people will ever see in a lifetime. To me, there's more of a challenge in doing something you've never done beforethan the same old thing over and over. I'll continue to bow hunt during archery season, and will also continue to hone my long range ability for a different challenge. To live inside you're own little pebble sized mind with no room for expansion is what is truly ridiculous.
Brother, I've taken more deer inside of 20 yards with a rifle and bow than most people will ever see in a lifetime. To me, there's more of a challenge in doing something you've never done beforethan the same old thing over and over. I'll continue to bow hunt during archery season, and will also continue to hone my long range ability for a different challenge. To live inside you're own little pebble sized mind with no room for expansion is what is truly ridiculous.
ORIGINAL: M77man
I would ratherlearn how to stalk and hunt, then fire no more then say 250 yards. I would get way more pleasure learning more about the animal and be able to track it down and get closer in on it then to launch a pebble at 1000 yards, is ridiculous.
I would ratherlearn how to stalk and hunt, then fire no more then say 250 yards. I would get way more pleasure learning more about the animal and be able to track it down and get closer in on it then to launch a pebble at 1000 yards, is ridiculous.
Anyway, I'llbethe first to admit that I am an in-experienced hunter having hunted from a tower blind with a 300 yard firing lane for the past few years nowusing either a 7mm Rem Mag or a 30-06 and to be honest, a 300 yard shot is rather easy with a 7 Mag. But a 1000 yard shot? C'mon you have to admit that's ridiculous. And it's obvious that we have "sniper" wann-a-be's onhere.All I am saying, is that I personally would rather learn how to stalk and hunt then sit from a tower and shoot at long range. 400 yards is fine. Actually, if it were the trophy of a life time I would take a shot at 500 yards but not much further.
Please try to showsome more maturity in your posts in the future also.
Be with Jesus bra
02-05-2007, 01:51 PM
#163
Fork Horn
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Upstate NY
Posts: 174
RE: 400 yard trophy?
I would not shoot. For one main reason I would not be able to make that shot. I have never even target shot past 250yards!! Hell where I livethree quarters of the rangesdo not have more than 200 yards to shoot!!I hunt in NY, close up east coast hunting. The area I live is shotgun only, my longest shot on a deer is about 90 yards. Out of 33 deer with shotgun only one has been over 60 yards, most between 25 and 50 yards, a couple under 10!! Out of 11 with bow, longest at 33 yards closest at about 3 yards! I have shot one with a rifle up north he was about 40 yards! It is just the type of hunting I do, thick cover. I do not hunt ag fields or power lines. I can and will shoot my bow out to 35 yards, my shotgun to 100 yards, my ml to 100 yards and my rifle to 200 yards. I have a 30 30 for up north and a 7mm mag.
The 7mm I bought when I took a couple trips out to hunt Idaho a couple times. I practiced and felt comfortable out to 200. You can definetly shoot long distanses out west. The weird thing for me is out past 250 or so they are just targets. I need to get closer. That is just me, I have nothing against anyone who can make those shots. Actualy quite the opposite, I am impressed! Guys out here yelling about to risky? Hell I bet if you had any way to get true info the long range shooters probably miss less than your average Joe, I base this just on that in my opinion specialized people tend to practice more.
To each their own.
The 7mm I bought when I took a couple trips out to hunt Idaho a couple times. I practiced and felt comfortable out to 200. You can definetly shoot long distanses out west. The weird thing for me is out past 250 or so they are just targets. I need to get closer. That is just me, I have nothing against anyone who can make those shots. Actualy quite the opposite, I am impressed! Guys out here yelling about to risky? Hell I bet if you had any way to get true info the long range shooters probably miss less than your average Joe, I base this just on that in my opinion specialized people tend to practice more.
To each their own.
02-06-2007, 07:16 AM
#166
Typical Buck
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: st. louis missouri.
Posts: 810
RE: 400 yard trophy?
i would never do it because it is cheap and stupid. o i shot a deer at 431 yards no one cares i think a better challenge then shooting that far is getting closer because it just seems cheap to me.
02-07-2007, 05:31 PM
#167
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Gleason, TN
Posts: 1,327
RE: 400 yard trophy?
Seems to be a rather touchy subject... Well, my biggest buck dropped with one shot at 500 yards from my 300win mag. It was a mule deer out on the South Dakota prairie, and there was no way to get closer. The furthest shot I've ever taken on a whitetail was about 350 yards. Not that I wouldn't feel comfortable shooting further, just that it's rare to get a shot like that in whitetail country. Now, all this about 1000 yard shooting? I would do that if I had a tripod mounted MK-19. But there may not be a trophy left after a hit with that.
02-07-2007, 08:19 PM
#168
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location:
Posts: 106
RE: 400 yard trophy?
ORIGINAL: spudrow
Most shots out west for antelope are at least 300 yard shots.
If you practice, practice, and practice, know your ammo, your gun, and the surrounding conditions, it isn't that hard to reach out and touch them.
If you aren't comfortable with long shots then by all means don't take them. But to say people that do are morons is ridiculous.
Good luck to you.
Mac
Most shots out west for antelope are at least 300 yard shots.
If you practice, practice, and practice, know your ammo, your gun, and the surrounding conditions, it isn't that hard to reach out and touch them.
If you aren't comfortable with long shots then by all means don't take them. But to say people that do are morons is ridiculous.
Good luck to you.
Mac
02-07-2007, 08:41 PM
#169
Typical Buck
Thread Starter
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Navasota Texas
Posts: 854
RE: 400 yard trophy?
ORIGINAL: mudtutl
Agreed. Try hunting lopes inEastern Montana. Sometimes there is no way to get closer, and you cancrawl on your belly through prickly pear only so far. 400 yards is no easy task, but it's not an unethical shot under the right circumstances. The trick is to knowyourself and your equiment well enough to know your limits.
ORIGINAL: spudrow
Most shots out west for antelope are at least 300 yard shots.
If you practice, practice, and practice, know your ammo, your gun, and the surrounding conditions, it isn't that hard to reach out and touch them.
If you aren't comfortable with long shots then by all means don't take them. But to say people that do are morons is ridiculous.
Good luck to you.
Mac
Most shots out west for antelope are at least 300 yard shots.
If you practice, practice, and practice, know your ammo, your gun, and the surrounding conditions, it isn't that hard to reach out and touch them.
If you aren't comfortable with long shots then by all means don't take them. But to say people that do are morons is ridiculous.
Good luck to you.
Mac
02-08-2007, 07:27 PM
#170
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location:
Posts: 66
RE: 400 yard trophy?
I shot a 10 point this year at 403 ranged yards with my Ruger 7MM mag shooting a 140 grin Acuubond and dropped him in his tracks. On my Lease a 200 yard shot is concidered close in. But I do admit I shoot allot and at ranges out to 600 yards and would not recommend shooting these distances unless you really know your rifle and Pracitce allot with it.
