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How well does the average big game hunter shoot?
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<blockquote data-quote="memtb" data-source="post: 2835742" data-attributes="member: 75451"><p>Shooting across a draw can certainly introduce some very high wind velocitie!</p><p></p><p> Many years ago, the wife and I had a group of elk, with 2 rag horn 6x6's in the group. It was a relatively short shot of only about 200 to 250 yards across a draw. We had a good breeze we're we were at, with no clue how fast across the draw…. But, it must have been pretty darn high.</p><p></p><p> We picked out our bulls, the wife shot first with my shot immediately after. Both were broadside shots, and we both always go for a behind the shoulder shot on a broadside presentation. We both wounded our bulls, later to find that both bullet impacts were remarkably similar….both gut shots.</p><p></p><p> Thankfully, both of us shot higher caliber rifles with moderately heavy bullets. Both elk were quite sick from the wounds, and closing on them and finishing them off was pretty easy/uneventful!</p><p></p><p> To this day, I wonder how fast that wind was to cause that much drift on a short range shot as this! memtb</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="memtb, post: 2835742, member: 75451"] Shooting across a draw can certainly introduce some very high wind velocitie! Many years ago, the wife and I had a group of elk, with 2 rag horn 6x6’s in the group. It was a relatively short shot of only about 200 to 250 yards across a draw. We had a good breeze we’re we were at, with no clue how fast across the draw…. But, it must have been pretty darn high. We picked out our bulls, the wife shot first with my shot immediately after. Both were broadside shots, and we both always go for a behind the shoulder shot on a broadside presentation. We both wounded our bulls, later to find that both bullet impacts were remarkably similar….both gut shots. Thankfully, both of us shot higher caliber rifles with moderately heavy bullets. Both elk were quite sick from the wounds, and closing on them and finishing them off was pretty easy/uneventful! To this day, I wonder how fast that wind was to cause that much drift on a short range shot as this! memtb [/QUOTE]
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