Not if he can not reliably make a 400yd shot in good conditions.
Just the way it is.
So there were no riflemen before long range became all the rage?
Reach has always been "all the rage"......
To be, unequivocally, stymied by a 400yd shot is the mark of a duffer.
Long-range hunting is all the rage with some.
Up close is with others. Interestingly, for lots of people, getting close is "all the rage." It's not that they're "stymied" by a 400-yard shot, it's just that it holds no interest for them.
