Now time and tide wait for no man,. Once upon a time 1950+ yard shots were green lighted, but currently I limit myself to 300 yard shots on large table game, but small vermin are hit or miss propositions so they don't fall into the same category in my book. So what is your definition of long rage hunting, and on what game?
What is long range hunting and what is hunted?
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liber
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Perhaps I neglected to mention with what equipment. Back in the day I shot silhouette with factory pistols out to 400 yards on steel critter plates from the creedmoor position. Yet unsupported free hand with a rifle 200 yards was more than enough. Does shooting position factor in?
That's some pretty good shooting. It takes a lot of practice to place a round into the 8 inch vital zone of a deer at 1K yards. Are you using the clean cold bore? Or the less accurate fouled bore three shots average Zero to base your shooting solution on?
Jon Bischof
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Well, it all started when my slingshot broke and I discovered the wrist rocket...
Then I found Estes rockets go way farther than bottle rockets.
You can shoot "strike anywhere" wooden matches out of your BB gun too. Just be careful what you set on fire.
As to what is hunted, any critter that you used to not take the shot because it was too far but now you regularly kill at the same distan and farther--that is LRH
So distance is always relative to the size of the kill zone and the conditions.
Recently I was forced to shoot flying squirrels at night. So again long range is relative to what you can reliably kill at a certain distance.
After flying squirrels and nearly setting the neighbors house on fire, deer are really huge. They get smaller beyond 600 yards, but you can get used to it with practice.
Then I found Estes rockets go way farther than bottle rockets.
You can shoot "strike anywhere" wooden matches out of your BB gun too. Just be careful what you set on fire.
As to what is hunted, any critter that you used to not take the shot because it was too far but now you regularly kill at the same distan and farther--that is LRH
So distance is always relative to the size of the kill zone and the conditions.
Recently I was forced to shoot flying squirrels at night. So again long range is relative to what you can reliably kill at a certain distance.
After flying squirrels and nearly setting the neighbors house on fire, deer are really huge. They get smaller beyond 600 yards, but you can get used to it with practice.
I have a lot of rifles but each kid has a specific rifle to them. There is a huge reason, each shooters needs vary. Length of pull, barrel, type, of hunting, packing etc. They each learn their own trigger pull weights and feel.
Ones that are used the most are browning xbolt in 6.5 Creedmoor with trigger. For some reason this one has been great.
6.5 SAUM pierce, McMillan,TTdiamond, proof.
338 edge defensive edge build.
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Not a clean barrel. But yes cold bore. Deer have a larger vital area than a 8" in my opinion. Fouled bore that were recently cleaned are not less accurate in my results.That's some pretty good shooting. It takes a lot of practice to place a round into the 8 inch vital zone of a deer at 1K yards. Are you using the clean cold bore? Or the less accurate fouled bore three shots average Zero to base your shooting solution on?
Yup, I got off to a BB gun start myself. At 125 feet in the basement I wasn't allowed to attempt extinguishing birthday candles alone until I perform 100 continuous head shots on green plastic army guys. Guess it sucks to have an Army Infantry Platoon Sergeant for an Instructor/Father. LOL.Well, it all started when my slingshot broke and I discovered the wrist rocket...
Then I found Estes rockets go way farther than bottle rockets.
You can shoot "strike anywhere" wooden matches out of your BB gun too. Just be careful what you set on fire.
As to what is hunted, any critter that you used to not take the shot because it was too far but now you regularly kill at the same distan and farther--that is LRH
So distance is always relative to the size of the kill zone and the conditions.
Recently I was forced to shoot flying squirrels at night. So again long range is relative to what you can reliably kill at a certain distance.
After flying squirrels and nearly setting the neighbors house on fire, deer are really huge. They get smaller beyond 600 yards, but you can get used to it with practice.
GSRetrievers
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I'd shoot 5 rounds into the ditch bank before I took a clean bore hunting when it counts. I will always choose a fouled bore over clean.That's some pretty good shooting. It takes a lot of practice to place a round into the 8 inch vital zone of a deer at 1K yards. Are you using the clean cold bore? Or the less accurate fouled bore three shots average Zero to base your shooting solution on?
Have you annotated your clean cold bore shots? You may come up with a different calculation plotting your line clean cold bore results. YMMV.
Agreed. I think I'm getting trolled here. Lol
Well I got trained a little differently. When you get the time annotated your group with ten cold clean bore shots, now attempt to shoot a 3 shot groups with a fouled bore that betters it. YMMV.
GSRetrievers
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There is a reason I say I'd fire 5 shots into the ditch bank. Because tens of thousands (or more) LR and ELR shots have told me that.
