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Erik Cortina is going to do the Backfire challenge
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<blockquote data-quote="marksman1941" data-source="post: 3072341" data-attributes="member: 68542"><p>as much as folks want to hate on it, it seems to me that the spirit of the challenge is to have people do some level of real world testing on their ability to reliably shoot variable distances at range.</p><p></p><p>The barrel heating dilemma is huge, but barring that (say you had the time to take cold bore shots only) it would be good practice and a good gut check for most shooters to see if they can hit a relatively small target at a variety of distances. No it's not an analogue for hunting, and each shooter should make their own judgement of their skill set after shooting, but I would expect many many shooters would walk into a challenge like this expecting to hit 80+%, and would walk out hitting well under half.</p><p></p><p>One would hope that it would make folks evaluate how reliably they can make a long range shot on an animal, and potentially some who should not be trying long range shots would be dissuaded from doing so. Or, at least convinced to practice more until they could reliably hit more</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="marksman1941, post: 3072341, member: 68542"] as much as folks want to hate on it, it seems to me that the spirit of the challenge is to have people do some level of real world testing on their ability to reliably shoot variable distances at range. The barrel heating dilemma is huge, but barring that (say you had the time to take cold bore shots only) it would be good practice and a good gut check for most shooters to see if they can hit a relatively small target at a variety of distances. No it’s not an analogue for hunting, and each shooter should make their own judgement of their skill set after shooting, but I would expect many many shooters would walk into a challenge like this expecting to hit 80+%, and would walk out hitting well under half. One would hope that it would make folks evaluate how reliably they can make a long range shot on an animal, and potentially some who should not be trying long range shots would be dissuaded from doing so. Or, at least convinced to practice more until they could reliably hit more [/QUOTE]
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