Talk about long-range shooting...read this
#11
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Pine Hill Alabama USA
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RE: Talk about long-range shooting...read this
We shot 50 shots one day at a buck and as far as I know that sucker's still out there,'' John says.
#13
Nontypical Buck
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Location: Pine Hill Alabama USA
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RE: Talk about long-range shooting...read this
but each to their own
#16
Giant Nontypical
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RE: Talk about long-range shooting...read this
...well, I'm sorry but that guy is just an unethical P O S. The guys in that article aren't hunting...they're playing. Targets were made for playing, not deer.
#18
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Maine
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RE: Talk about long-range shooting...read this
John, who has hunted deer from long distance for 30 years, knows better.
Because of the touchiness of the subject, the Mifflin County hunter asked that his real name not be printed.
Because of the touchiness of the subject, the Mifflin County hunter asked that his real name not be printed.
#19
Typical Buck
Join Date: Dec 2003
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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.
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.
#20
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Rifle, Colorado
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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