What's different about instances like the OP described, of course, is nowadays many hunters think they can BUY the ability to kill big game animals at whatever they consider "long range" after very little real practice.
On the money there.
I've seen some pretty unbelievable things from people. This year a guy was using his new scopeon a hard to draw hunt..sighted in, then the dope was taken right off the factory drop chart on the cartridge box..
If that weren't enough, the range he shot at the first elk at called for 38" of drop, so he promtly dials in 38MOA.
I bet he was good to 1k if you had asked him before he started shooting.
Unbelievable
