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<blockquote data-quote="Mike Matteson" data-source="post: 2705287" data-attributes="member: 101791"><p>If you are hunting elk in the woods. Good luck.</p><p>Now if you are using different loads the arc of the bullet probable would be different too. So now where are you to hold to shoot. Pull out the cheap sheet and figure it out. The only problems with that is having the animal stay in one spot while you determine which round you are going to use. Today scopes are set up to cut all the guessing game out. or most of it. You have range finder to determine distance. You have to do some range shooting to know how the bullet flies. Depending on temp outside and type of powder you are using can change the point of impact greatly. Under 500yds not so much, but beyond that it's a difference story.</p><p>On Large game I use rifles that product about the same velocity, which turns into about the same drop at different yardages. That way the drop almost mirrors the same in each rifle. I didn't have to rethink the drop in each rifle. I use a simple scope too. A 2x8 duplex Leupold scope. With the duplex to determine the range of the animal. With that I know where to hold the crosshairs on the animal to shoot. This is done within 500yds. I used a 721 Rem bolt action for years to hunt deer, and made several shots at different yards with several at 500yds or so.</p><p>I was around a man in Africa that used a 30/06 and a very nice rifle. He had a nighforce scope on it. It had all the bells and whistles. A top of the line range finder too. Max ranges under 150 yard mostly. Under 50 yds he wounder an animal. He wouldn't shoot again with the animal moving a few yards. He would check his range finder to range, then adjust his scope. he had several shots, but never fired. He was adjusting his scope to shot. Findly the animal walked off. They never found the animal either. It cost him $600.00 for the animal that he never took home.</p><p> That's my thinking, and I am sure lots of other people have difference ideas.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mike Matteson, post: 2705287, member: 101791"] If you are hunting elk in the woods. Good luck. Now if you are using different loads the arc of the bullet probable would be different too. So now where are you to hold to shoot. Pull out the cheap sheet and figure it out. The only problems with that is having the animal stay in one spot while you determine which round you are going to use. Today scopes are set up to cut all the guessing game out. or most of it. You have range finder to determine distance. You have to do some range shooting to know how the bullet flies. Depending on temp outside and type of powder you are using can change the point of impact greatly. Under 500yds not so much, but beyond that it's a difference story. On Large game I use rifles that product about the same velocity, which turns into about the same drop at different yardages. That way the drop almost mirrors the same in each rifle. I didn't have to rethink the drop in each rifle. I use a simple scope too. A 2x8 duplex Leupold scope. With the duplex to determine the range of the animal. With that I know where to hold the crosshairs on the animal to shoot. This is done within 500yds. I used a 721 Rem bolt action for years to hunt deer, and made several shots at different yards with several at 500yds or so. I was around a man in Africa that used a 30/06 and a very nice rifle. He had a nighforce scope on it. It had all the bells and whistles. A top of the line range finder too. Max ranges under 150 yard mostly. Under 50 yds he wounder an animal. He wouldn't shoot again with the animal moving a few yards. He would check his range finder to range, then adjust his scope. he had several shots, but never fired. He was adjusting his scope to shot. Findly the animal walked off. They never found the animal either. It cost him $600.00 for the animal that he never took home. That's my thinking, and I am sure lots of other people have difference ideas. [/QUOTE]
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