I remember my one and only 300 yard kill and I thought that was a loooong way off. It was a good while back, after I had gotten the long range hunting bug. I bought a Remington 700, .308, added a Leupold scope (it's on a .22LR now, where it belongs...). What did they call that triangle barrel rifle? The first two shots out of it were good, after that, the triangle barrel that wasn't supposed to move, moved. I changed the trigger to a Jewell and set it to 1#. I tuned my loads (learned a lot about reloading). Finally... deer season was here. I hunted a nice little high fence ranch in the hill country. The owner had a 8 point or better rule and we saw an s-ton of 8 point or less bucks. His son couldn't convince his dad to manage his deer. Anyway, By the end of the weekend nobody had a deer so he relaxed the 8 point rule and said we could take a doe too (under pressure from his son). The last morning they put me on a stand on a powerline right of way and left me to my "hunt" (I'm just going to say, native Texan here, I've bow hunted and rifle hunted in NW Louisiana, sitting in a box isn't hunting). The sun was well up when a deer eased out way down the sendero. I ranged him, dialed the scope up, and looked at that tiny little target for a long time. I finally talked myself into taking a shot. The deer ran in a circle for a few seconds then fell over dead. That was the most nerve wracking experience of my hunting life. And I was pretty fired up that I made a clean kill at a legit 300 yards.
As much as I would like to try it again, with my upgraded equipment, I don't know... there's a lot more to shooting medium to long range than what I experienced on level ground. A few degrees of up or down angle, a little cant, altitude vs what my reloads were tested at, etc, etc.
I stepped into the F-class spiderweb for a little while but I don't have the time or dinero (not even counting the rifle, that's not an expense, just more happiness) to compete in F-class (not saying I won't try some day lol). My reloading ability picked up a bunch of notches...
As much as I would like to try it again, with my upgraded equipment, I don't know... there's a lot more to shooting medium to long range than what I experienced on level ground. A few degrees of up or down angle, a little cant, altitude vs what my reloads were tested at, etc, etc.
I stepped into the F-class spiderweb for a little while but I don't have the time or dinero (not even counting the rifle, that's not an expense, just more happiness) to compete in F-class (not saying I won't try some day lol). My reloading ability picked up a bunch of notches...
