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What happened to the good old hunting rifle?
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<blockquote data-quote="Deleted member 115360" data-source="post: 2147592"><p>There is much mental masturbation in many rifle decisions, and I'm right in the middle of it. Most of my hunting opportunities are well inside of 200y, as are most opportunities in general. Those shots would work with a 4moa rifle, but I want one that shoots .2 moa. Sometimes I drag a 30" barrel rifle into the woods to spots where I will sit in a stand where I can't see anything beyond 100y. How accurate are you standing offhand, or on a pile of packs? Not enough that you can honestly justify that $6k custom rifle that makes bugholes. Now, none of that will dictate my purchases, because maybe tomorrow is the day when I get that 1,000y trophy of a lifetime opportunity, (but probably not). I'm 40 for a few more days, and a short 30 years ago, when I began my obsession with killing whitetail deer, putting 3 shots in a paper plate at a distance that was kinda probably close to 100y, give or take 30y or so, and you were ready to hit the woods. Sure the machining is better, but so is the technology, ammo, and distribution of ballistic understanding. </p><p></p><p>However, If you want to apply practicality to my hunting rifles, then we cannot be friends. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😂" title="Face with tears of joy :joy:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f602.png" data-shortname=":joy:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Deleted member 115360, post: 2147592"] There is much mental masturbation in many rifle decisions, and I'm right in the middle of it. Most of my hunting opportunities are well inside of 200y, as are most opportunities in general. Those shots would work with a 4moa rifle, but I want one that shoots .2 moa. Sometimes I drag a 30" barrel rifle into the woods to spots where I will sit in a stand where I can't see anything beyond 100y. How accurate are you standing offhand, or on a pile of packs? Not enough that you can honestly justify that $6k custom rifle that makes bugholes. Now, none of that will dictate my purchases, because maybe tomorrow is the day when I get that 1,000y trophy of a lifetime opportunity, (but probably not). I'm 40 for a few more days, and a short 30 years ago, when I began my obsession with killing whitetail deer, putting 3 shots in a paper plate at a distance that was kinda probably close to 100y, give or take 30y or so, and you were ready to hit the woods. Sure the machining is better, but so is the technology, ammo, and distribution of ballistic understanding. However, If you want to apply practicality to my hunting rifles, then we cannot be friends. 😂 [/QUOTE]
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