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<blockquote data-quote="angus-5024" data-source="post: 681480" data-attributes="member: 10306"><p>When I started my Long range hunting endevor The big thing was 1000 yards. Everyone thought that would be unbelievable. Then "Best of the west" came out and started dropping animals at around that magic 1k mark. Now that the boys at Gunwerks have a good system going (very expensive sytem) everyone thinks that their Walmart special can do the same thing. It drives me nuts. (kudos to the Davidsns by the way).</p><p> </p><p>I have freinds that have said they have shot game at 600 yards, they "ranged" it. I go shooting with them thinking maybe I've found someone that I can share my passion with. Set out a target at 600 yards and they shoot 5 rounds at it withouth getting on the 4'x4' backstop. After hearing them say something like "musta bumped my scope''or similar a few times I just give up.</p><p> </p><p>1500 yards is far. reloading far. custom work far. knowing what cartige to use far. </p><p> </p><p>just wondering... do you know what bullet you were using for that 850 yards elk??? impact velocity? TOF? Azmith? Relative humdity? Angle of incline? </p><p>These things are huge factors at 1500 yards. </p><p> </p><p>Im curious what your impact velocity would have been on that bull at 850... and was it above the expansion threshold?</p><p> </p><p>Ive never shot game past 600 yards. a fair number of rocks out to 1100, but no elk.</p><p> </p><p>Sorry that it came off like I got a case of the grumps, its just the truth. I honestly wish you a warm welcome to longrangehunting.com. I just want to see more people succeeding and less tall tales.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="angus-5024, post: 681480, member: 10306"] When I started my Long range hunting endevor The big thing was 1000 yards. Everyone thought that would be unbelievable. Then "Best of the west" came out and started dropping animals at around that magic 1k mark. Now that the boys at Gunwerks have a good system going (very expensive sytem) everyone thinks that their Walmart special can do the same thing. It drives me nuts. (kudos to the Davidsns by the way). I have freinds that have said they have shot game at 600 yards, they "ranged" it. I go shooting with them thinking maybe I've found someone that I can share my passion with. Set out a target at 600 yards and they shoot 5 rounds at it withouth getting on the 4'x4' backstop. After hearing them say something like "musta bumped my scope''or similar a few times I just give up. 1500 yards is far. reloading far. custom work far. knowing what cartige to use far. just wondering... do you know what bullet you were using for that 850 yards elk??? impact velocity? TOF? Azmith? Relative humdity? Angle of incline? These things are huge factors at 1500 yards. Im curious what your impact velocity would have been on that bull at 850... and was it above the expansion threshold? Ive never shot game past 600 yards. a fair number of rocks out to 1100, but no elk. Sorry that it came off like I got a case of the grumps, its just the truth. I honestly wish you a warm welcome to longrangehunting.com. I just want to see more people succeeding and less tall tales. [/QUOTE]
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