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<blockquote data-quote="LRNut" data-source="post: 2698248" data-attributes="member: 3230"><p>I was on a deer hunt a few weeks ago in eastern CO. My guide was phenomenal; he spotted a deer bedded down in an open field from several hundred yards. We crept withing 450 yards and he asked me if I could shoot it from there. The wind was howling from about 11 o'clock and switching from 10 to 12. I said I could, but there was a house about 300 yards behind the deer - it looked abandoned, but we were not sure (it was a huge swath of private property). Additionally, it was so flat I wasn't confident that he measured the range correctly - I was getting anything from 177 to over 500. I was shooting a 300 RUM - my guide said if you hit him anywhere, we will find him, but that isn't exactly my cup of tea. We decided to belly crawl and we got about 150 yards away, where we waited 4 1/2 hours. Just before sunset, he got up and I whacked him.</p><p></p><p>I don't have a gong at exactly 450 yards at my house, but I do have one at 400 and 620 (10"x12"). I can't remember the last time I missed at 400, but like you said, there are a lot of factors in real life hunting situation that made me opt for getting closer, not the least of which was if I wounded that deer and didn't recover it, my hunt was over. On the first day of a $10,500 hunt, that shot was a bit too far. My guess is most of us on this site taking long range pokes are DIY hunts, and wounding an animal is not going to result in a punched tag. But like it or not, the long-range craze has resulted in a lot of wounded animals, and guides and outfitters are making those who wish to take such a shot forfeit their hunt should they wound an animal and not recover it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LRNut, post: 2698248, member: 3230"] I was on a deer hunt a few weeks ago in eastern CO. My guide was phenomenal; he spotted a deer bedded down in an open field from several hundred yards. We crept withing 450 yards and he asked me if I could shoot it from there. The wind was howling from about 11 o'clock and switching from 10 to 12. I said I could, but there was a house about 300 yards behind the deer - it looked abandoned, but we were not sure (it was a huge swath of private property). Additionally, it was so flat I wasn't confident that he measured the range correctly - I was getting anything from 177 to over 500. I was shooting a 300 RUM - my guide said if you hit him anywhere, we will find him, but that isn't exactly my cup of tea. We decided to belly crawl and we got about 150 yards away, where we waited 4 1/2 hours. Just before sunset, he got up and I whacked him. I don't have a gong at exactly 450 yards at my house, but I do have one at 400 and 620 (10"x12"). I can't remember the last time I missed at 400, but like you said, there are a lot of factors in real life hunting situation that made me opt for getting closer, not the least of which was if I wounded that deer and didn't recover it, my hunt was over. On the first day of a $10,500 hunt, that shot was a bit too far. My guess is most of us on this site taking long range pokes are DIY hunts, and wounding an animal is not going to result in a punched tag. But like it or not, the long-range craze has resulted in a lot of wounded animals, and guides and outfitters are making those who wish to take such a shot forfeit their hunt should they wound an animal and not recover it. [/QUOTE]
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