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Bob,

Got a tag for Bill place this year?



Rick,

I get what you are saying and continuing the logic we are all "incomplete" as hunters.

That, for me at least, is the fascination with hunting. There is always a skill set to improve, be it on the side of getting closer or on the side of adding reach.

I think some of the rub on the adding reach side is the equipment race. It takes the right tools, but just because a fellow spent a bunch of coin does not make him a LR killer. It just means he is ready to start practicing.

But you already knew all that and I am just preaching to the choir.

What stock do you shoot?

Laughing!.............

MegaDittos

Really? I know guys who only hunt with a bow, because that's how they want to hunt. They couldn't care less about long range hunting. They've hunted with rifles, but have moved on.

To call them incomplete hunters is just projecting your own personal ethic onto everyone else.

Now, if a guy wants to hunt long range, but can't hit at long range, then he has some work to do, and could be called "incomplete."

It's no different.

Guys are always trying to extend their effective range with archery as well.

Projecting personal ethics on others is what America is all about.


What ever tool you decide to use on a hunt should be mastered to a certain level of competency. I think folks should at least try to be as good as their equipment

You mean like the guys who choose to hunt with a traditional bow?

Yes, they practice so that they can maximize their range with that particular weapon.

To say they are pursuing "long-range" traditional bowhunting is laughable though.

Come to think of it, calling anything done with any kind of bow "long-range hunting" (which is what we're talking about) is laughable.

No doubt about that.

It's all relative.

I think there are long range shots with a bow, a pellet gun, a .22LR, etc...

Is stretching bow shots out to 100+ really that different? ( to keep the semantics out, I'm obviously talking about compound bows)

Ridiculous.

I go absent for a month or so and return to see this thread still kicking. Seems I've started a [bleep] storm. We may be accused of not having any common sense, any heart, or any clue but we'll never be accused of having no passion.

If you're driving a Bugatti that is capable of 240 mph top speed, but your driving skill only allows you to run it to 55 mph, you're an incomplete driver

Ridiculous argument rca.

I've seen the most competent, trained, snipers from here and abroad shoot thousands of rounds in the ever present TX Panhandle wind. These guys are as good as it gets, and their trainer is as good as it gets, period. The wind baffles them sometimes, and lots of times on shot #1. Why should I believe you or anyone else for that matter are more competent than they are?

You seem to think that if a shot is presented, be it 10 yards or 1000, it has to be taken.

At neither range is this the case

Not hardly. You're the one that said "if you're not capable of both, you're an incomplete hunter". I just pointed out why that is a ridiculous point of view, at least IMO, and stated why. You and nobody else on the planet are capable all the time. No headstamp, bullet, rifle, scope, wind meter, etc can come together to dope wind 100% of the time. That's my point. I have a rifle and ammo capable of 900yds easily with no wind.

Sure there are. Is that what you were talking about when you made the comment that I responded to? Bows and pellet guns?

If a hand fired projectile pokes a hole through clockwork.... and we get a dead critter post haste.... who gives a schitt how it got there... or from how far?