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What do you think long range is?
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<blockquote data-quote="davkrat" data-source="post: 950839" data-attributes="member: 6452"><p>I voted for 400 yards. My dedicated long range gun is a 7mm Rem Mag which is certainly capable of cleanly harvesting deer and elk at extended ranges. The most common gun I hunt with is my .308 though. The massive dedicated heavy long barreled ELR rigs some of you own on here are certainly capable of taking large animals at extreme ranges. For me that's not something I can afford or am all that interested in that style of hunting. For a standard big game caliber and a range finder anything out to 300 is pretty much a chip shot. Even my pig of a ,308 I can regularly make hits at 300 yards regardless of wind. At 400 I have to really start thinking about the wind and my bullet is falling fast enough that an accurate range measurement becomes a bit of an issue. For a gun I'm willing to hike up and down mountains with and not need a muzzle break than I consider anything beyond 400 yards to be definitely long range.</p><p></p><p>Also being in California I too have to deal with copper bullets now and from my experience the limiting factor with copper is velocity. I shoot Nosler E-Tips and they claim that they will expand down to 1800 fps but the expansion at that velocity is nothing to write home about. Personally I set my minimum threshold at 2000 fps. For my .308 that ends up being around 400 yards where I deer hunt at 8000' I can push that a bit further. The 7 Mag can maintain 2000 fps at a much further distance having a higher BC and starting off 300-400fps faster. In addition my scope turrets get around 550-700 yards with one revolution. I don't ever intend to take a first shot at game at those ranges with my rifles but I like to practice at that range so that I will be able to make a clean up shot at 600 yards if needed.</p><p></p><p>Just my .02</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="davkrat, post: 950839, member: 6452"] I voted for 400 yards. My dedicated long range gun is a 7mm Rem Mag which is certainly capable of cleanly harvesting deer and elk at extended ranges. The most common gun I hunt with is my .308 though. The massive dedicated heavy long barreled ELR rigs some of you own on here are certainly capable of taking large animals at extreme ranges. For me that's not something I can afford or am all that interested in that style of hunting. For a standard big game caliber and a range finder anything out to 300 is pretty much a chip shot. Even my pig of a ,308 I can regularly make hits at 300 yards regardless of wind. At 400 I have to really start thinking about the wind and my bullet is falling fast enough that an accurate range measurement becomes a bit of an issue. For a gun I'm willing to hike up and down mountains with and not need a muzzle break than I consider anything beyond 400 yards to be definitely long range. Also being in California I too have to deal with copper bullets now and from my experience the limiting factor with copper is velocity. I shoot Nosler E-Tips and they claim that they will expand down to 1800 fps but the expansion at that velocity is nothing to write home about. Personally I set my minimum threshold at 2000 fps. For my .308 that ends up being around 400 yards where I deer hunt at 8000' I can push that a bit further. The 7 Mag can maintain 2000 fps at a much further distance having a higher BC and starting off 300-400fps faster. In addition my scope turrets get around 550-700 yards with one revolution. I don't ever intend to take a first shot at game at those ranges with my rifles but I like to practice at that range so that I will be able to make a clean up shot at 600 yards if needed. Just my .02 [/QUOTE]
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