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<blockquote data-quote="Paparock" data-source="post: 1525357" data-attributes="member: 106235"><p>Well this is going to be slightly off topic in a way as I was "in the day" one of "those guys" that started talking about setting up shooting benches up on the "Continental Divide" up in Wyoming and sandbagging in .50 caliber sniper rifles for shooting elk at what we shall say was across valleys on other mountains as we aged. Now, I know the stories got around and laws were passed that made such things illegal and the facts were that I and no one else that I personally know of ever did such a thing. It was just an exercise in what if we did this what would it take to make it feasible type of thing. Many of the guys I knew shot at over 1000 yards so it was not unfeasible with the right equipment, spotters, etc. and we had huge expanses in Wyoming being the most unpopulated state in the USA to practice in. </p><p></p><p>In the end we all decided against it because the variables were just to great and we did not want to wound any animals. The odds of following up on a wounded animal from such great distances were abysmal and we all agreed the animals came first!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Paparock, post: 1525357, member: 106235"] Well this is going to be slightly off topic in a way as I was "in the day" one of "those guys" that started talking about setting up shooting benches up on the "Continental Divide" up in Wyoming and sandbagging in .50 caliber sniper rifles for shooting elk at what we shall say was across valleys on other mountains as we aged. Now, I know the stories got around and laws were passed that made such things illegal and the facts were that I and no one else that I personally know of ever did such a thing. It was just an exercise in what if we did this what would it take to make it feasible type of thing. Many of the guys I knew shot at over 1000 yards so it was not unfeasible with the right equipment, spotters, etc. and we had huge expanses in Wyoming being the most unpopulated state in the USA to practice in. In the end we all decided against it because the variables were just to great and we did not want to wound any animals. The odds of following up on a wounded animal from such great distances were abysmal and we all agreed the animals came first! [/QUOTE]
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