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How well does the average big game hunter shoot?
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<blockquote data-quote="R. Cram" data-source="post: 2837339" data-attributes="member: 116633"><p>if a 10 inch vital area is to be hit that only allows for a wind call to be off by 5 inches if your shot happened to be perfectly centered, I have shot with some of the best long range high power shooters including those on the palma team and to make wind calls to that degree of accuracy past 600yds is for sure a thing of luck when the wind is blowing. at camp perry there is a match called infantry trophy where 5 or 6 shooters with service rifles would start at 600 yds prone with a sling and iron sights and when the targets were popped up they shot very rapid fire for a minute or two then the targets were pulled down and every one found out how good the wind call was, the team coach made the wind call before the shooting started and at perry 3 or 4 minutes of wind would be common. If the call was off by 1 minute that could yeild a lot of misses on the silhouett target. One year our junior team, 50 % young ladies, out shot the marine corp. team. good fun. I don't think well over 98 % of hunters have any buisiness shooting over 300 yds. I try all the time to get anybody around here, Boise area, to come to a long range match at Vale , oregon because at a match every shot will be pulled and marked so the shooter will get feed back from every shot and will get very good info as to what the wind is doing to each shot. I haven't seen the wind to be steady very often most of the time you have to evaluate the shot each time. nobody has any buisiness trying to shoot animals past 500 yds without some experiance shooting distance so wind effect can be determined. only experiance helps learn this. also people need to get off the bench unless they are going to be bench rest shooters the bench is a waste of time, how often do you see people at a range shoot in their position they would likely use in the field. I have never been to a military range that has benches</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="R. Cram, post: 2837339, member: 116633"] if a 10 inch vital area is to be hit that only allows for a wind call to be off by 5 inches if your shot happened to be perfectly centered, I have shot with some of the best long range high power shooters including those on the palma team and to make wind calls to that degree of accuracy past 600yds is for sure a thing of luck when the wind is blowing. at camp perry there is a match called infantry trophy where 5 or 6 shooters with service rifles would start at 600 yds prone with a sling and iron sights and when the targets were popped up they shot very rapid fire for a minute or two then the targets were pulled down and every one found out how good the wind call was, the team coach made the wind call before the shooting started and at perry 3 or 4 minutes of wind would be common. If the call was off by 1 minute that could yeild a lot of misses on the silhouett target. One year our junior team, 50 % young ladies, out shot the marine corp. team. good fun. I don't think well over 98 % of hunters have any buisiness shooting over 300 yds. I try all the time to get anybody around here, Boise area, to come to a long range match at Vale , oregon because at a match every shot will be pulled and marked so the shooter will get feed back from every shot and will get very good info as to what the wind is doing to each shot. I haven't seen the wind to be steady very often most of the time you have to evaluate the shot each time. nobody has any buisiness trying to shoot animals past 500 yds without some experiance shooting distance so wind effect can be determined. only experiance helps learn this. also people need to get off the bench unless they are going to be bench rest shooters the bench is a waste of time, how often do you see people at a range shoot in their position they would likely use in the field. I have never been to a military range that has benches [/QUOTE]
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