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<blockquote data-quote="fta0303" data-source="post: 3068481" data-attributes="member: 43503"><p>Effective long range (1000 yds) shooting contains some magical elements. Let your rifle be perfectly accurate, shooting to exact point of aim time after time, and let your shooting technique be equally perfect. Those are the elements that you can control. You can't influence wind and you can't influence whether the animal stays till or moves. The bullet will take ~ 1.3 seconds to make the 1000 yd flight. How far can you move in 1 second? 10 or 15 feet, if moving quickly, 3 or 4 if moseying along. A slow movement by your 1000 yd target will defeat all of your efforts toward perfect accuracy. Then there's the wind. you may get lucky - there's no wind. But you may have a 5 MPH crosswind at the muzzle, which you can measure and compensate for, but there's no guarantee that the wind is constant all along the bullet's path, in fact, in nearly any mtn hunting situation, the wind may blow 6 different directions along the bullet flight path. I guess this is where experience comes in, judging the effect of wind. But cues are usually few, and assembling them into meaningful hold information very difficult. Wind may totally defeat your attempts at a proper shot placement at these distances. </p><p></p><p>Belief in reliably placing a shot at 1000 yds relies on a large amount of magical thinking. I don't dispute that people do it on stationary targets with some regularity (though that may take a two man sniper team to accomplish). Exceptional long distance shots are made. But on any game that isn't sleeping, you are tossing the dice, due to the animals ability to move, even if you are perfectly accurate. Sudden target movement can be a problem even at normal hunting ranges.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="fta0303, post: 3068481, member: 43503"] Effective long range (1000 yds) shooting contains some magical elements. Let your rifle be perfectly accurate, shooting to exact point of aim time after time, and let your shooting technique be equally perfect. Those are the elements that you can control. You can't influence wind and you can't influence whether the animal stays till or moves. The bullet will take ~ 1.3 seconds to make the 1000 yd flight. How far can you move in 1 second? 10 or 15 feet, if moving quickly, 3 or 4 if moseying along. A slow movement by your 1000 yd target will defeat all of your efforts toward perfect accuracy. Then there's the wind. you may get lucky - there's no wind. But you may have a 5 MPH crosswind at the muzzle, which you can measure and compensate for, but there's no guarantee that the wind is constant all along the bullet's path, in fact, in nearly any mtn hunting situation, the wind may blow 6 different directions along the bullet flight path. I guess this is where experience comes in, judging the effect of wind. But cues are usually few, and assembling them into meaningful hold information very difficult. Wind may totally defeat your attempts at a proper shot placement at these distances. Belief in reliably placing a shot at 1000 yds relies on a large amount of magical thinking. I don't dispute that people do it on stationary targets with some regularity (though that may take a two man sniper team to accomplish). Exceptional long distance shots are made. But on any game that isn't sleeping, you are tossing the dice, due to the animals ability to move, even if you are perfectly accurate. Sudden target movement can be a problem even at normal hunting ranges. [/QUOTE]
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