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<blockquote data-quote="Buffalobob" data-source="post: 242882" data-attributes="member: 8"><p>They asked Matt Kenseth why he wouldn't wreck Jimmie Johnson in the last race so Carl Edwards would win the championship. Kenseth's reply was "Common sense".</p><p></p><p>That is pretty much the answer to your question. A good shot at each distance is that it is within the kill zone of the animal you are hunting. I was very pleased when my daughter finally managed to keep 50 out of 50 shots in the black of an F-class target. That meant she had less than 2% error under controlled conditions on a target roughly the size of an elk kill zone at ranges of 800 yards to 1000 yards with a slow 308 Win. Moving up to a high speed super magnum with ULDs provided her with additional insurance. She made a really beautiful shot on a deer at 700 yards. She was confident and sure of her abilities because she had worked hard to achieve those skills.</p><p></p><p>So that is the way I see it. You should be capable of consistently placing bullet after bullet into an area that is the size of the kill zone of the animal you hunt and limit the range to the distance that you can achieve those results. In my experience it usually is not so much an issue of distance as it is of wind. A lazer rangefinder will reduce distance errors but wind is really difficult and can cut your effective range down to really trivial distances. When the wind gets over 10 mph I don't like to shoot much over 500 or 600 yards and 600 is really pushing it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Buffalobob, post: 242882, member: 8"] They asked Matt Kenseth why he wouldn't wreck Jimmie Johnson in the last race so Carl Edwards would win the championship. Kenseth's reply was "Common sense". That is pretty much the answer to your question. A good shot at each distance is that it is within the kill zone of the animal you are hunting. I was very pleased when my daughter finally managed to keep 50 out of 50 shots in the black of an F-class target. That meant she had less than 2% error under controlled conditions on a target roughly the size of an elk kill zone at ranges of 800 yards to 1000 yards with a slow 308 Win. Moving up to a high speed super magnum with ULDs provided her with additional insurance. She made a really beautiful shot on a deer at 700 yards. She was confident and sure of her abilities because she had worked hard to achieve those skills. So that is the way I see it. You should be capable of consistently placing bullet after bullet into an area that is the size of the kill zone of the animal you hunt and limit the range to the distance that you can achieve those results. In my experience it usually is not so much an issue of distance as it is of wind. A lazer rangefinder will reduce distance errors but wind is really difficult and can cut your effective range down to really trivial distances. When the wind gets over 10 mph I don't like to shoot much over 500 or 600 yards and 600 is really pushing it. [/QUOTE]
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