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<blockquote data-quote="bigngreen" data-source="post: 1669747" data-attributes="member: 13632"><p>I think most of us from the earlier days of this site came here and hang out here so we can learn how to do a better job of hunting with emphasis on the shooting part, I don't really think I know anyone who simply wanted to just shoot farther but the distance is born out of the proficiency and the knowledge that comes with diving into doing the killing part of hunting with clean and lethal precision. Personally I think we owe it to the animals we hunt to take them as clean and quickly as possible in the least stressful manner, that's what drove me to this site many years ago.</p><p>As we work our way to precision we also add range so we have the resolution to see where we need to improve and to learn, when I had worked out to where I was hammering it at 800-1000 yards it was amazing the precision and the improvement there was at 300 or 400 yards, no longer was just getting one in the vitals an option but that drove the idea that I can target exactly where I want a bullet. Moving out farther to drive more resolution to improve simply give a guy more and better tools in the tool box, there are the occasions where we can push out into what seems more extreme ranges on the face of it but the reality the shot was take because getting closer was of no advantage, the hunting had been done and it was time to kill and that should be done with the animal in mind, hunt all you want before that but at trigger pulling time hunting it DONE and we owe it to the game to be as proficient at the killing aspect as we are at the hunting.</p><p>All of our longer range kills have come in places where we have shot the shot before, we shoot and practice in our hunting areas, I've hunting them so I know where they frequently move and pattern up so I can and do go in all of the year and shoot those spots and have them down pat, I walk all of the terrain with a wind meter, smoke and whatever else it takes to add to my knowledge on the shot. I have notes on each kill and small maps of the wind movement from the past. The precision with which I can kill a game animal has taken the value of my hunt to the next level, I hunt way, way harder now because not only am I looking for a specific animal I'm looking for a specific shot so when the hunt ends it was the best it could possibly be, it's not about range or size anymore but quality!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bigngreen, post: 1669747, member: 13632"] I think most of us from the earlier days of this site came here and hang out here so we can learn how to do a better job of hunting with emphasis on the shooting part, I don't really think I know anyone who simply wanted to just shoot farther but the distance is born out of the proficiency and the knowledge that comes with diving into doing the killing part of hunting with clean and lethal precision. Personally I think we owe it to the animals we hunt to take them as clean and quickly as possible in the least stressful manner, that's what drove me to this site many years ago. As we work our way to precision we also add range so we have the resolution to see where we need to improve and to learn, when I had worked out to where I was hammering it at 800-1000 yards it was amazing the precision and the improvement there was at 300 or 400 yards, no longer was just getting one in the vitals an option but that drove the idea that I can target exactly where I want a bullet. Moving out farther to drive more resolution to improve simply give a guy more and better tools in the tool box, there are the occasions where we can push out into what seems more extreme ranges on the face of it but the reality the shot was take because getting closer was of no advantage, the hunting had been done and it was time to kill and that should be done with the animal in mind, hunt all you want before that but at trigger pulling time hunting it DONE and we owe it to the game to be as proficient at the killing aspect as we are at the hunting. All of our longer range kills have come in places where we have shot the shot before, we shoot and practice in our hunting areas, I've hunting them so I know where they frequently move and pattern up so I can and do go in all of the year and shoot those spots and have them down pat, I walk all of the terrain with a wind meter, smoke and whatever else it takes to add to my knowledge on the shot. I have notes on each kill and small maps of the wind movement from the past. The precision with which I can kill a game animal has taken the value of my hunt to the next level, I hunt way, way harder now because not only am I looking for a specific animal I'm looking for a specific shot so when the hunt ends it was the best it could possibly be, it's not about range or size anymore but quality!! [/QUOTE]
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