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<blockquote data-quote="jarnold37" data-source="post: 1872203" data-attributes="member: 29241"><p>Growing up, I was told that people would exaggerate more about two things. How fast there car could go and how much gas mileage their car could get. But there is a third most exaggerated thing. And that is how far someone shot a deer. My interest in guns increased and over time the more I learned the more I realized how little I actually knew. Started shooting longer and longer distances which involved a lathe, chambering many different chamberings, ballistics, triggers, good scopes, and sighting in many many rifles from the community. I certainly learned early on that distances were greatly exaggerated. I remember A friend brought me a 30-06 to glass bed and he said he had shot a dear at 500 yards with it. I asked him how high he hekd over deer and he said he held right on as it was a good shooting gun. The front screw was finger tight and there washay under the action. Another friend said he killed his deer at 650 yards and asked how he did it and he said heard it coming in the leaves and held right on off hand, with a 6lb trigger. I'm not going to say that a hunting rifle cant hit a softball at 1000 yds, but there are many that say they can when they cant. Experienced bench shooters with the best equipment will tell you how hard the egg is to hit at 500 yards. Not to mention myself shooting at a very big buck in a hayfield, 200 yards broadside, offhand and missed, and that is no exaggeration.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jarnold37, post: 1872203, member: 29241"] Growing up, I was told that people would exaggerate more about two things. How fast there car could go and how much gas mileage their car could get. But there is a third most exaggerated thing. And that is how far someone shot a deer. My interest in guns increased and over time the more I learned the more I realized how little I actually knew. Started shooting longer and longer distances which involved a lathe, chambering many different chamberings, ballistics, triggers, good scopes, and sighting in many many rifles from the community. I certainly learned early on that distances were greatly exaggerated. I remember A friend brought me a 30-06 to glass bed and he said he had shot a dear at 500 yards with it. I asked him how high he hekd over deer and he said he held right on as it was a good shooting gun. The front screw was finger tight and there washay under the action. Another friend said he killed his deer at 650 yards and asked how he did it and he said heard it coming in the leaves and held right on off hand, with a 6lb trigger. I'm not going to say that a hunting rifle cant hit a softball at 1000 yds, but there are many that say they can when they cant. Experienced bench shooters with the best equipment will tell you how hard the egg is to hit at 500 yards. Not to mention myself shooting at a very big buck in a hayfield, 200 yards broadside, offhand and missed, and that is no exaggeration. [/QUOTE]
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