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<blockquote data-quote="D.ID" data-source="post: 689999" data-attributes="member: 14340"><p>"I do think they do the long range hunting community a disservice with their "boom, simple as that" marketing. You occasionally do see crappy shots on that show with guest hunters because lets face it, putting a Huskema on your rig and using their wind reader at your location, isn't going to cut it. With all the intricacies people talk about with equipment and shooting and color of your socks...blah blah blah, we all know that accurate long range shooting is not as simple as they make it out to be. You have to shake your head when they say "John here has never been behind this setup, and made a 1 shot 900 yard kill. That is the simplicity of our BOTW system.".........+1</p><p></p><p>I gotta admit they turned me on to bergers......Thanks. They expanded the public face of this sport...........Thanks. They attempt to over simplify the issue with a constant bombardment of whatever their peddling........<>..............I cut them allot of slack for the inroads they have made but I think they should guard that progress greedily and be careful and clear that It takes more than there gadgets and two practice shots to do it ethically at any range. I have had the pleasure of enlightening many people to the fact it can be done but have also bean disheartened a couple times by folks convinced all they needed was the gadgets. "Practice is a waist of time, My scope says 925 right on it" or "my BDC had better be dead on at 700, It said so on the website".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="D.ID, post: 689999, member: 14340"] "I do think they do the long range hunting community a disservice with their "boom, simple as that" marketing. You occasionally do see crappy shots on that show with guest hunters because lets face it, putting a Huskema on your rig and using their wind reader at your location, isn't going to cut it. With all the intricacies people talk about with equipment and shooting and color of your socks...blah blah blah, we all know that accurate long range shooting is not as simple as they make it out to be. You have to shake your head when they say "John here has never been behind this setup, and made a 1 shot 900 yard kill. That is the simplicity of our BOTW system.".........+1 I gotta admit they turned me on to bergers......Thanks. They expanded the public face of this sport...........Thanks. They attempt to over simplify the issue with a constant bombardment of whatever their peddling........<>..............I cut them allot of slack for the inroads they have made but I think they should guard that progress greedily and be careful and clear that It takes more than there gadgets and two practice shots to do it ethically at any range. I have had the pleasure of enlightening many people to the fact it can be done but have also bean disheartened a couple times by folks convinced all they needed was the gadgets. "Practice is a waist of time, My scope says 925 right on it" or "my BDC had better be dead on at 700, It said so on the website". [/QUOTE]
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