IMHO I honestly believe that the reason long range hunting gets negative feedback is because it's referred to as "long range hunting". ...
The distinction between "hunting" and "LR hunting" makes people assume that the goal is to shoot animals as far away as possible without attempting to close the distance...
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So the whole thing comes across as long range target practice on living targets even though that's not always the case.
Excellent and perceptive post, even though it is a bit naive. You nailed it exactly with this sentence:
The distinction between "hunting" and "LR hunting" makes people assume that the goal is to shoot animals as far away as possible without attempting to close the distance...
That is precisely the goal as expressed overall in this forum.
For confirmation just read recent titles of threads in this forum, and a random sampling of posts, starting with the first sentence of the original post that started this thread.
