"The idea you killed a game animal at spitting distance is no big deal now-a-days with sent blockers and Hecs clothing."
Bullshit.
I'm prepared to kill as far as my Leupold 800si will read an animal, but no farther. Conditions pending... More than 300 yards is mere technology. My last 2 caribou kills, a couple minutes apart, were at @ 290 estimated, and a ranged 433, with a sub MOA rifle zeroed to 300 yards. Easy-peasy, but the "hunting" was all in running the country (snowmachine) and finding the 'bou... .not in a stalk. And yes, I had a helluva good time...
The killing was the least/worst of it. But I gotta say, I was satisfied with the skill of it.
It is far more challenging, and satisfying to me (YMMV), to get within "spitting distance", especially in open country, than to "rangify" my kills.
But I like to eat....
