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A few photos from my Scotland trip
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<blockquote data-quote="Brown Dog" data-source="post: 58545" data-attributes="member: 1622"><p>Dave,</p><p></p><p>Yup, the weak 'granite' joke was based on the fact that the chance positioning of carcass relative to rock in the photo made me think that, rather than being shot, it looks like the beast was killed by the application of a large rock to its head /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif</p><p></p><p>The perception of long range in UK? Obviously I can't speak for all, but I'd say very very few people in UK have the equipment, practice-honed skills or even the real estate to tackle what many on this board define as 'long'.</p><p> </p><p>Obviously I can't speak for all, but at deer, shots at anything over 200m [excepting shots to drop an escaping wounded beast] are unusual, anything over 300m extremely unusual –less distance for the smaller species. </p><p></p><p>By way of illustration, on the trip shown above, we were on a new estate with a professional stalker previously unknown to us. I took the shots at the 540m rock partly because 'I could' and partly to plant the thought with the professional stalker that I am not the run of the mill 'fat-banker-up-from-London-for-the-weekend' quality of marksman. After I shot the 252m beast, he commented 'I wouldn't have let you take that shot if I hadn't seen you hit that rock'. </p><p></p><p>That's the mind set over here (I must say at this point that he was actually a bloody good bloke!). Personally –and bear in mind this is from someone with 16 years (and counting!) in the British Army sad enough to buy his own AW- I can't imagine that I will ever take a shot at an unwounded deer beyond 400m; that's my self imposed limit at deer –I'm obviously brainwashed too! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brown Dog, post: 58545, member: 1622"] Dave, Yup, the weak ‘granite’ joke was based on the fact that the chance positioning of carcass relative to rock in the photo made me think that, rather than being shot, it looks like the beast was killed by the application of a large rock to its head [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] The perception of long range in UK? Obviously I can’t speak for all, but I’d say very very few people in UK have the equipment, practice-honed skills or even the real estate to tackle what many on this board define as ‘long’. Obviously I can’t speak for all, but at deer, shots at anything over 200m [excepting shots to drop an escaping wounded beast] are unusual, anything over 300m extremely unusual –less distance for the smaller species. By way of illustration, on the trip shown above, we were on a new estate with a professional stalker previously unknown to us. I took the shots at the 540m rock partly because ‘I could’ and partly to plant the thought with the professional stalker that I am not the run of the mill ‘fat-banker-up-from-London-for-the-weekend’ quality of marksman. After I shot the 252m beast, he commented ‘I wouldn’t have let you take that shot if I hadn’t seen you hit that rock’. That’s the mind set over here (I must say at this point that he was actually a bloody good bloke!). Personally –and bear in mind this is from someone with 16 years (and counting!) in the British Army sad enough to buy his own AW- I can’t imagine that I will ever take a shot at an unwounded deer beyond 400m; that’s my self imposed limit at deer –I’m obviously brainwashed too! [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] [/QUOTE]
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