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<blockquote data-quote="D$tring" data-source="post: 2405137" data-attributes="member: 114263"><p>I have always enjoyed challenges. I missed a dream Rocky Mountain Bighorn Ram and had I been able to shoot more than 300 yards I could have set up at 600-700 and shot him from his bed. Instead I had to sneak up and around and play the wind. I played it right which is a great challenge in and of itself, but he switched beds in the time it took me to get over across the canyon and around the backside and up and over the top of his position. After about stepping on him; figuratively, but well within archery range, I spotted him in a rock pile. We locked eyes at the same time and in a blink my rifle was off and I was taking an offhand shot, and in that same blink he jumped up from his bed and jumped off the little ledge he was on. There was a puff of dust across the canyon above where he jumped off the ledge. I went to the ledge and rocks below and could see where he landed and took off. I saw him across the canyon flying up the steep hillside and then he stopped taking a quick look back rubbing in that he had gotten the upper hand that day. I looked for any signs of a hit; blood, hair, anything—but there was nothing. I Followed his tracks for almost two miles until they merged with a ton of other sheep tracks, then went back with my head hanging pretty low. Had I been able to shoot those 600-700 yards he would have been dead; either early that morning as he peacefully fed and bedded or after I jumped him out of his bed and he stopped to get one last look. I sat there and glassed a giant basin for him or for more rams and contemplated every scenario for success until dark. I resolved right then and there that I would learn how to get first round hits at 1000 in any conditions so that I could kill game out to 800 yards if needed, and kill them while they had no clue I was there. So began my long range journey. </p><p></p><p>The first ring of steel at 1000 is like a drug; it is euphoric in a way that is hard to describe, and then comes the quest for perfection, tighter groups at longer ranges, first shot hits out to 1200, 1500, 1800; first shot hits at 1000 in nasty wind, rain etc etc. That quest has become an obsession for me and it all goes back to sitting on the mountain miles deep in one of the toughest patches of rock on the planet, broken hearted at the one that got away.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="D$tring, post: 2405137, member: 114263"] I have always enjoyed challenges. I missed a dream Rocky Mountain Bighorn Ram and had I been able to shoot more than 300 yards I could have set up at 600-700 and shot him from his bed. Instead I had to sneak up and around and play the wind. I played it right which is a great challenge in and of itself, but he switched beds in the time it took me to get over across the canyon and around the backside and up and over the top of his position. After about stepping on him; figuratively, but well within archery range, I spotted him in a rock pile. We locked eyes at the same time and in a blink my rifle was off and I was taking an offhand shot, and in that same blink he jumped up from his bed and jumped off the little ledge he was on. There was a puff of dust across the canyon above where he jumped off the ledge. I went to the ledge and rocks below and could see where he landed and took off. I saw him across the canyon flying up the steep hillside and then he stopped taking a quick look back rubbing in that he had gotten the upper hand that day. I looked for any signs of a hit; blood, hair, anything—but there was nothing. I Followed his tracks for almost two miles until they merged with a ton of other sheep tracks, then went back with my head hanging pretty low. Had I been able to shoot those 600-700 yards he would have been dead; either early that morning as he peacefully fed and bedded or after I jumped him out of his bed and he stopped to get one last look. I sat there and glassed a giant basin for him or for more rams and contemplated every scenario for success until dark. I resolved right then and there that I would learn how to get first round hits at 1000 in any conditions so that I could kill game out to 800 yards if needed, and kill them while they had no clue I was there. So began my long range journey. The first ring of steel at 1000 is like a drug; it is euphoric in a way that is hard to describe, and then comes the quest for perfection, tighter groups at longer ranges, first shot hits out to 1200, 1500, 1800; first shot hits at 1000 in nasty wind, rain etc etc. That quest has become an obsession for me and it all goes back to sitting on the mountain miles deep in one of the toughest patches of rock on the planet, broken hearted at the one that got away. [/QUOTE]
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