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<blockquote data-quote="ATH" data-source="post: 1668558" data-attributes="member: 1656"><p>I limit myself to 800 as well, but also use rifles others say are good to much further rather than one that is "just enough". Yes, one needs to factor recovery into the decision to take a shot. I have passed on shots I was fully capable of taking because it was too close to dark and I was not confident we could find the animal before leaving the field for the day and taking chance on predators/scavengers.</p><p></p><p>Things can look A LOT different from the position of the animal vs the shooter, so if you have more than one person hunting my method is to have the shooter stay put after the shot and keep their eye on the animal. Have another person go out and locate the animal. If it is hard to find the animal or sign, the shooter can use their rangefinder and hand signals to walk their partner into the shot location. Several times we've "walked the arc" like this at the range of the shot to find an animal in difficult terrain. Once my buddy shot a muley at 550 and we went out there and just could not find it. I went back to the shooting position and found where I thought it should be and guided him along an arc at the range and sure enough he found it only feet from where we had been looking, curled up in a depression we had walked right over 10 times.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ATH, post: 1668558, member: 1656"] I limit myself to 800 as well, but also use rifles others say are good to much further rather than one that is "just enough". Yes, one needs to factor recovery into the decision to take a shot. I have passed on shots I was fully capable of taking because it was too close to dark and I was not confident we could find the animal before leaving the field for the day and taking chance on predators/scavengers. Things can look A LOT different from the position of the animal vs the shooter, so if you have more than one person hunting my method is to have the shooter stay put after the shot and keep their eye on the animal. Have another person go out and locate the animal. If it is hard to find the animal or sign, the shooter can use their rangefinder and hand signals to walk their partner into the shot location. Several times we've "walked the arc" like this at the range of the shot to find an animal in difficult terrain. Once my buddy shot a muley at 550 and we went out there and just could not find it. I went back to the shooting position and found where I thought it should be and guided him along an arc at the range and sure enough he found it only feet from where we had been looking, curled up in a depression we had walked right over 10 times. [/QUOTE]
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