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<blockquote data-quote="del2les" data-source="post: 1739201" data-attributes="member: 9299"><p>As a 15 y/o, seeing deer across bean fields, crossing large clear cut utility ROW's, and other, I just had to have something with better reach then the 30-30 M94. Then reading numerous outdoor/hunting magazines with Western hunts stimulating my curiosity, I was bit.</p><p></p><p>The next year I saved my summer work money and bought a 30-06 bolt gun and 3-9x scope, had a Sierra 165GK load at 2,800fps shooting 1/2 MOA, and I was zeroing for 250yds to take anything from wood's range to those up-to 1/4 mile bean field deer I could only look at prior. My first kill beyond 300 hooked me on distance shooting, and it only went up from there. Soon crows, coyotes, soda bottles and other critters were falling to my man's rifle.</p><p></p><p>THEN, military service put me on the path of precision shooting, and once I discovered NRA National Match, BR and other LR comp shooting, I was joining a local shooting club and learning from some real bullseye masters. A fire was lit, and I had no idea it would consume me for the next 40 years or so. The more I learned to shoot at longer and longer ranges at smaller and smaller targets/varmints, I found something I had a real talent for. Even though most people at the time advised against it, hunting game at those same ranges was just a simple transition, but I found I was fairly alone in my new sport and often criticized for taking such shots. So, I had few friends I would talk to about LRH, varmints or game.</p><p></p><p>Once I moved back West, was stationed here in the 70's during the Air Force, I found a different group with a similar mindset about real LRH. Even then, only a few, but now the numbers are growing, and I don't feel so out-of-place discussing LRH/ELRS</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="del2les, post: 1739201, member: 9299"] As a 15 y/o, seeing deer across bean fields, crossing large clear cut utility ROW's, and other, I just had to have something with better reach then the 30-30 M94. Then reading numerous outdoor/hunting magazines with Western hunts stimulating my curiosity, I was bit. The next year I saved my summer work money and bought a 30-06 bolt gun and 3-9x scope, had a Sierra 165GK load at 2,800fps shooting 1/2 MOA, and I was zeroing for 250yds to take anything from wood's range to those up-to 1/4 mile bean field deer I could only look at prior. My first kill beyond 300 hooked me on distance shooting, and it only went up from there. Soon crows, coyotes, soda bottles and other critters were falling to my man's rifle. THEN, military service put me on the path of precision shooting, and once I discovered NRA National Match, BR and other LR comp shooting, I was joining a local shooting club and learning from some real bullseye masters. A fire was lit, and I had no idea it would consume me for the next 40 years or so. The more I learned to shoot at longer and longer ranges at smaller and smaller targets/varmints, I found something I had a real talent for. Even though most people at the time advised against it, hunting game at those same ranges was just a simple transition, but I found I was fairly alone in my new sport and often criticized for taking such shots. So, I had few friends I would talk to about LRH, varmints or game. Once I moved back West, was stationed here in the 70's during the Air Force, I found a different group with a similar mindset about real LRH. Even then, only a few, but now the numbers are growing, and I don't feel so out-of-place discussing LRH/ELRS [/QUOTE]
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