my 2 cents. to this topic. i think long range shooting and accurracy is sweet. 1000yd. shots within 2 to 4 inches consectuvely is nothing short of impressive and phenonimal. i thinks those talents are few and are earned by extreme training and good restraint. to me they have a specific place, snipers, taking out enemy targets, hostage situations, and people that are trying to kill you or your own, what better talent to have to stay alive and keep others alive.
like above posts, theres too much commercialization of open up a box and bolt it on, or watch this video, and now you can kill anything within a quartermile.
takes alot of time behind the rifle in alot of variables to walk away with the confidence of 100yd absolutes..
and like the above posts, many are not going to check for blood or any other kind of evidence across canyon or brushy draw...
and now that i have been enlightened on being able to see animal hits with a 338 edge i know what i have been doing wrong.
double lunged a doe this year with a 270wsm at 60 yds, her response was like shooting straight up in the air. hit a bull moose with a 340 wby at 90 yds twice, double lung, it never moved, stood there just staring like it was blind and deaf. didnt run fell over dead, but no sign of a hit, shot a bear sitting in the center of the chest, took of like a coyote getting shot at, dead as a door nail within 70 yds. actual shot taken at 130. a big feeding buck at 60 yds in the snow quartering away behind the shoulder then up into the next, no exit out of a 284, the buck semi sat down and gone with the wind, found about 70 yds away, not ONE drop of blood in a field of snow. shot a bull elk at 380 yds. double lung in the pouring rain, him and his cows took off to the timber, looked and sounded like a clean miss, dead just inside the timber 40yds...
all these animals would have never been recovered if i would have never checked, also killed with perfect shot placement at close range.
and i am only one hunter, and my stories ring true with alot of others every year.
animals are not paper targets and steel plates, i say give them the respect on proper shot placement according to your level.
to those who can absolutly do it at 1000yds, more power to ya,
to most hunters i think we would prefer to get closer thats part of the sport.
