Ignorance.
It's not about hitting a running animal, there's something called an ambush method for example, where you let them walk into your shot. Without going into depth here. It will be combined with your wind call. It's not that weird.
What's a "gamer?"
I learned in the military and I "hunt" with what I know. There's plenty of people on this forum and others that hunt with MRAD, and FFP scopes.
Ok. So, your wind changes. You have dope on a high wind and a low wind, or simply wind average. Ok. You're planning to shoot your dope for wind average which we will call 1.6 mils, but the animal stands up, and is about to bail for whatever reason, and now the wind is gusting…you simply take your wind peak….say it's 2.4 mils, put it on the animal and press the trigger. What are they suppose to make that's more dumbed down than that?
A gamer is someone that shoots in competition with made up arbitrary conditions. There's nothing wrong with that. It's just miles from hunting realities. Because it's so popular, or at least the scope manufacturers cater almost entirely to it, those conditions drive what is designed for. Which is extreme precision. Which is great. The problem is it's at the cost of far more useful things. Like being able to see the reticle. Or low light.
The issue is the reticles are all useless on low magnification because they're designing for things that do not exist in hunting. If they did, they could have the reticle big enough close enough to the center to use it at the lowest magnification.
In order to actually need the reticles offered, the conditions have to be quite terrible. So terrible that the vast majority of hunters couldn't possibly pull off the shot. And we can see that in reality vs the ultra super snipers people are on forums vs the you tube challenges where people absolutely cannot make a lot easier shot than that reticle would allow for with full on custom ultra heavy guns and all the time in the world.
That all said, I think you're not understanding my complaints. I like FFP. I like MRAD. No one makes one worth a crap for hunting.
In my example, I chose a pretty terrible combo for anything long range, but it's a very common load for a lot of hunters. If I chose something more appropriate for long range like a 6.5prc and a 147eldm, in a 30mph wind 5mils is at 1100yards.
If the animal is moving at a brisk walk(5mph), that's a fine moving shot, 5 mils is past 2000y.
Let's put them together, a very reasonable 10mph wind and a 5mph moving target. You're still not to 5mils until 1000y. I just can't see very many hunters capable of that shot. There are some, but it would not be enough people to sell enough scopes to recover 10mins of the r&d on it, let alone make any money.
