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What happened to the good old hunting rifle?
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<blockquote data-quote="Deleted member 115360" data-source="post: 2147938"><p>I killed a whitetail doe at 550y with a Winchester model 70 in .270 win in about 1997, shooting walmart factory ammo and what I now know to be a really inadequate Simmons scope. At that moment, and with 2 of my friends watching as I rested my rifle on a stump of near perfect height, I believed I had unlocked the secrets to long range hunting. At that time I knew nobody who could claim a kill beyond about 150y. About a year later I made an accidental head shot on a small buck at about 400y, again, witnessed by two people. I was a long range legend among my teenage friends. I can tell you now that those ranges were a guess, I had no idea what I was doing, and I probably wounded a dozen or more unrecovered deer in the next 5 years because I thought my long range shooting skills were infallible. I had no idea what I was doing. I would read the trajectory posted on the side of the ammo box, and get to shooting. Years later when I began to really understand, (and will always be learning), what knowledge one really needs to make shots like that with any consistency, I was amazed that I ever hit anything. The internet put the knowledge that was formerly only available in the minds of wizards into the hands of everyone with enough time and patience to study it. That has accounted for most of the evolution that we've witnessed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Deleted member 115360, post: 2147938"] I killed a whitetail doe at 550y with a Winchester model 70 in .270 win in about 1997, shooting walmart factory ammo and what I now know to be a really inadequate Simmons scope. At that moment, and with 2 of my friends watching as I rested my rifle on a stump of near perfect height, I believed I had unlocked the secrets to long range hunting. At that time I knew nobody who could claim a kill beyond about 150y. About a year later I made an accidental head shot on a small buck at about 400y, again, witnessed by two people. I was a long range legend among my teenage friends. I can tell you now that those ranges were a guess, I had no idea what I was doing, and I probably wounded a dozen or more unrecovered deer in the next 5 years because I thought my long range shooting skills were infallible. I had no idea what I was doing. I would read the trajectory posted on the side of the ammo box, and get to shooting. Years later when I began to really understand, (and will always be learning), what knowledge one really needs to make shots like that with any consistency, I was amazed that I ever hit anything. The internet put the knowledge that was formerly only available in the minds of wizards into the hands of everyone with enough time and patience to study it. That has accounted for most of the evolution that we've witnessed. [/QUOTE]
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