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<blockquote data-quote="hunter67wa" data-source="post: 1514132" data-attributes="member: 28295"><p>Great post Alex. My wife made the same shot at 530 yards on a whitetail buck in Idaho a couple years ago. I could tell when he was hit that it was high shoulder. I told her to grab the stuff and follow me best you can and hustled down the canyon and up to finish him. I didn't want her to feel bad and to finish the animal as quick as possible. It happens.</p><p> I also teach shooters for a school. I am the lead PR rifle instructor. I can tell you that everyone shows up on Friday morning with thousands and thousands of dollars worth of gear thinking it will make them great shots. I always have a less than desirable rifle that I teach with now and this year was a mauser in 6.5x55 nothing fancy sporterized stock and 2.5x8 leupy. This is a beginning class so we really work fundamentals and start shooting out to 400yrds sounds easy but we require MOA. Now most of you are laughing and have figured out my reasoning behind my rifle. We also shoot positions and moving targets. I have had the big egos not show up the second day due to not being able to shoot better than 3 moa the first day all in prone. We always demo what we want shooters to do and after checking targets they all ask what rifle/caliber/bullet are you shooting. lol I tell them it is not the arrow its the indian. My wifes buck and a 400yrd demo group with the swede.[ATTACH=full]111299[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]111300[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hunter67wa, post: 1514132, member: 28295"] Great post Alex. My wife made the same shot at 530 yards on a whitetail buck in Idaho a couple years ago. I could tell when he was hit that it was high shoulder. I told her to grab the stuff and follow me best you can and hustled down the canyon and up to finish him. I didn't want her to feel bad and to finish the animal as quick as possible. It happens. I also teach shooters for a school. I am the lead PR rifle instructor. I can tell you that everyone shows up on Friday morning with thousands and thousands of dollars worth of gear thinking it will make them great shots. I always have a less than desirable rifle that I teach with now and this year was a mauser in 6.5x55 nothing fancy sporterized stock and 2.5x8 leupy. This is a beginning class so we really work fundamentals and start shooting out to 400yrds sounds easy but we require MOA. Now most of you are laughing and have figured out my reasoning behind my rifle. We also shoot positions and moving targets. I have had the big egos not show up the second day due to not being able to shoot better than 3 moa the first day all in prone. We always demo what we want shooters to do and after checking targets they all ask what rifle/caliber/bullet are you shooting. lol I tell them it is not the arrow its the indian. My wifes buck and a 400yrd demo group with the swede.[ATTACH=full]111299[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]111300[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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