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<blockquote data-quote="SBruce" data-source="post: 509048" data-attributes="member: 21068"><p>FWIW, when it comes to most "normal distance" hunters. I agree with you, but that is one of the few rules on this forum; we don't discuss the right-wrong or Ethics of Long Range Hunting and Shooting.</p><p> </p><p>As a deer and antelope guide for nearly 30 years now, I've seen a whole lot of people wanting to attempt shots further than they're prepared/practiced to shoot. Granted, alot of this is the illusion of open country, the game is further than they thought it was. But alot of it also is that they haven't prepared enough to even know where their gun shoots at X distance. </p><p> </p><p>John Doe says "They're only 500 yds, I can make that, I hear of other people doing it all the time." He thinks that because he's got a rangefinder now with a ballistic curve in it, that he's GTG. When in fact, John Doe has never even shot his rifle at 500 yds before, and **** sure hasn't done it in the Wyoming wind. He has no idea that his rifle is shooting a 7" horizontal group at that distance and the wind is going to blow him off another 12". So he attempts the shot...........shoots the flank and hind leg off the animal and now attempts running shots at a wounded antelope that keeps getting further and further away. Some family drives by on the nearby highway and see's this wounded antelope caught in the fence because it could'nt get through with only 3 legs and guts tangled up in the wire.<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite11" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll Eyes :rolleyes:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /></p><p> </p><p>I agree with you, it is disturbing to see this. However, hopefully forums like this one are helping give those people some idea of the prep work needed to make long distance kills. <strong>The new technology is nice, but the 7P's still apply.</strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SBruce, post: 509048, member: 21068"] FWIW, when it comes to most "normal distance" hunters. I agree with you, but that is one of the few rules on this forum; we don't discuss the right-wrong or Ethics of Long Range Hunting and Shooting. As a deer and antelope guide for nearly 30 years now, I've seen a whole lot of people wanting to attempt shots further than they're prepared/practiced to shoot. Granted, alot of this is the illusion of open country, the game is further than they thought it was. But alot of it also is that they haven't prepared enough to even know where their gun shoots at X distance. John Doe says "They're only 500 yds, I can make that, I hear of other people doing it all the time." He thinks that because he's got a rangefinder now with a ballistic curve in it, that he's GTG. When in fact, John Doe has never even shot his rifle at 500 yds before, and **** sure hasn't done it in the Wyoming wind. He has no idea that his rifle is shooting a 7" horizontal group at that distance and the wind is going to blow him off another 12". So he attempts the shot...........shoots the flank and hind leg off the animal and now attempts running shots at a wounded antelope that keeps getting further and further away. Some family drives by on the nearby highway and see's this wounded antelope caught in the fence because it could'nt get through with only 3 legs and guts tangled up in the wire.:rolleyes: I agree with you, it is disturbing to see this. However, hopefully forums like this one are helping give those people some idea of the prep work needed to make long distance kills. [B]The new technology is nice, but the 7P's still apply.[/B] [/QUOTE]
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