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<blockquote data-quote="yobuck" data-source="post: 1712048" data-attributes="member: 12443"><p>Careful there Don, i Sence a bit of senility might be setting in with talk of shooting a 270 to those distances. Lol</p><p>But then I don't believe you mentioned anything about hitting anything.</p><p>Fact is though I had my first experience of long range deer hunting by watching a guy kill a deer with a 270.</p><p>I'm no doubt older than you, as i was 20 years old in 1955 when I witnessed the incident. A group of us were driving on a dirt mountain road in the northern most part of Clinton Co. PA.</p><p>We had to stop our vehicle due to a guy laying prone right on the road. He was shooting at a deer way off laying down. He had brass laying all over the road, and after a couple more shots he quit and stood up, out of shells. Apperently the deer didn't even realize he was a target.</p><p>Anyway, 2 other guys were standing there watching thru spotting scopes, and when the guy quit one of them asked if he minded if he shot. The guy said I'm done, so go ahead if you want to shoot at him.</p><p>The guy then yanked the back seat out of his car and layed it on the road. He then pulled out a standard model 70 with a Unertle scope on it. His buddy watched while he shot, and i cant say wether there was any communication between them, but i assume there was. Anyway on the third shot the deer was hit and died right in his bed.</p><p> I remember asking him how far it was and he said 700 yds. </p><p>I don't know how he knew that, but about 20 years later i bought a Barr&Stroud range finder, as i was then myself involved in L/R.</p><p> One of the first things i did was check the distance of that shot. And surprisingly the guy was spot on the money as for the distance. And yes i bought the Barr& Stroud from Harry Kieser in Williamsport. Lol</p><p>But the biggest irony of all, is that 50 years later, almost to the day, at age 70, i killed my first and only PA black bear from a lookout on the side hill directly above that spot on that road.</p><p>700 YDS, and within about 100 yds to the left of where i had watched that buck kill.</p><p>In all those years, i only know one guy whose word i would trust, claiming to have killed a buck at 1 mile in PA.</p><p>And that was an old 1000 yd shooter by name of Hubie Hakes, with a 338x378 using a 250 gr SMK.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="yobuck, post: 1712048, member: 12443"] Careful there Don, i Sence a bit of senility might be setting in with talk of shooting a 270 to those distances. Lol But then I don’t believe you mentioned anything about hitting anything. Fact is though I had my first experience of long range deer hunting by watching a guy kill a deer with a 270. I’m no doubt older than you, as i was 20 years old in 1955 when I witnessed the incident. A group of us were driving on a dirt mountain road in the northern most part of Clinton Co. PA. We had to stop our vehicle due to a guy laying prone right on the road. He was shooting at a deer way off laying down. He had brass laying all over the road, and after a couple more shots he quit and stood up, out of shells. Apperently the deer didn’t even realize he was a target. Anyway, 2 other guys were standing there watching thru spotting scopes, and when the guy quit one of them asked if he minded if he shot. The guy said I’m done, so go ahead if you want to shoot at him. The guy then yanked the back seat out of his car and layed it on the road. He then pulled out a standard model 70 with a Unertle scope on it. His buddy watched while he shot, and i cant say wether there was any communication between them, but i assume there was. Anyway on the third shot the deer was hit and died right in his bed. I remember asking him how far it was and he said 700 yds. I don’t know how he knew that, but about 20 years later i bought a Barr&Stroud range finder, as i was then myself involved in L/R. One of the first things i did was check the distance of that shot. And surprisingly the guy was spot on the money as for the distance. And yes i bought the Barr& Stroud from Harry Kieser in Williamsport. Lol But the biggest irony of all, is that 50 years later, almost to the day, at age 70, i killed my first and only PA black bear from a lookout on the side hill directly above that spot on that road. 700 YDS, and within about 100 yds to the left of where i had watched that buck kill. In all those years, i only know one guy whose word i would trust, claiming to have killed a buck at 1 mile in PA. And that was an old 1000 yd shooter by name of Hubie Hakes, with a 338x378 using a 250 gr SMK. [/QUOTE]
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