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<blockquote data-quote="NeoConShooter" data-source="post: 1667430" data-attributes="member: 28881"><p>I know they will. There is a very certain thrill with making a kill at very long range! However, I still believe that you have a very real moral obligation to treat the game animal ethically. ( Varmints excluded regardless of size!) As range gets longer there are many ways that things can and do go wrong. Most of the time, everything goes right, but when it does not... At the same time, I believe in self responsibility and fee will! You make the choices that you have to live with. Elmer Keith was one of my heroes when I was growing up. That 600 yard shot with a .44 revolver was a legend that I admired and tried to emulate during all the time I was in the ASA. I grew up in Illinois and shooting was so close a 12 gage with ordinary slugs was a sure winner. Later I lived in Colorado and Utah and had many opportunities to hunt mule deer and elk at very much longer ranges. As luck would have it, my stalking skill, more likely a better fiend/guide let me harvest many animals mostly at ranges under 100 Meters. When I retired, I had more time to think on it and my military experience. I evolved and now choose not to shoot at live game past the point blank range of the weapon system and ammo. It is my choice and I am glad to let each of you make your choice, what ever it is because I know that you and not I will have to live with the results of those choices. If you crave the thrill of long range shooting at unknown distances, enter sniper matches, hone your skills where there is no ethical trap for a shot gone wide. Do not risk the guilt of knowing you let a gravely wounded animal escape to die days, or weeks later.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NeoConShooter, post: 1667430, member: 28881"] I know they will. There is a very certain thrill with making a kill at very long range! However, I still believe that you have a very real moral obligation to treat the game animal ethically. ( Varmints excluded regardless of size!) As range gets longer there are many ways that things can and do go wrong. Most of the time, everything goes right, but when it does not... At the same time, I believe in self responsibility and fee will! You make the choices that you have to live with. Elmer Keith was one of my heroes when I was growing up. That 600 yard shot with a .44 revolver was a legend that I admired and tried to emulate during all the time I was in the ASA. I grew up in Illinois and shooting was so close a 12 gage with ordinary slugs was a sure winner. Later I lived in Colorado and Utah and had many opportunities to hunt mule deer and elk at very much longer ranges. As luck would have it, my stalking skill, more likely a better fiend/guide let me harvest many animals mostly at ranges under 100 Meters. When I retired, I had more time to think on it and my military experience. I evolved and now choose not to shoot at live game past the point blank range of the weapon system and ammo. It is my choice and I am glad to let each of you make your choice, what ever it is because I know that you and not I will have to live with the results of those choices. If you crave the thrill of long range shooting at unknown distances, enter sniper matches, hone your skills where there is no ethical trap for a shot gone wide. Do not risk the guilt of knowing you let a gravely wounded animal escape to die days, or weeks later. [/QUOTE]
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