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I may have been aiming for a chess shot. But due to is inability to hit it in the ear.

You've stated the problem succinctly without even realizing it; you believe ethics are a matter of individual perspective when that is the exact opposite of ethics. Out of curiosity do you run the rest of your life in a similar fashion? You, you, you with every decision rationalized with you at the center of it all? People like yourself do the rest of the hunting community a huge disservice. Whether you think or can hit at that range demonstrates no small amount of skill and an equal amount of luck but it isn't part of the sporting ethic which it seems you don't know much about. Just because one can does not mean one should. When you actually understand this you will be on the road to ethical behavior.

Time of flight is the main reason I quit shooting at animals past 300 yards or so.
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Wasn’t there another video floating around here on the forum of a (called) 700 yard antelope head shot?

Oh, a thoughtful schit stirrer.

Here is a head shot gone wrong and since this was a shotgun state it was relatively short range,, nostril shot off and destroyed everything above the upper palate which allowed him to eat. He was shot at least a year or more ago since he was fully healed and you can see his skull exposed and the skin fused to it. And believe it or not he was attempting to breed a doe. The hunter was my hunting buddy. We inspected him and he bore a nice set of antlers he was underweight for a deer of his age and to add to his misery his rear quarter was infected from a recent 22 lead bullet
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Head shots are not unethical or poor percentage some of the time. I limit mine to 30 yards or less, on non-moving moose, or finishing shots close up.

My last one on moose was about 15 yards, using the snow machine windscreen as a rest. It's do-able..... at least with a 3.5-10X scope set on 6.....

The one before that was a near miss - about 20 yards, offhand, head on. He ducked and started to turn to run just as I shot. Took the top of his brain pan off instead of 'tween the eyes. An inch higher, and I'd have had to wing shoot him with the second - but he wasn't going anywhere, much.

I agree. The "margin of error" he speaks of at 900 yards on a head shot is nil. Really- at 900 yards in the field, can anyone place a bullet within an inch, or at most two, of intended with absolute (call it 90%) confidence on a "head shot" ?. I don't think so. Lucky shot. Really stupid if that was the intent, but still a lucky shot.

I've made a couple "lucky shots" , myself. Not stupid- just AFU...I try to avoid them.

But I don't lie about them.

Usually. Less so since I quit alcohol.

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She spined him at 200 with '06, not where she was aiming, she said - I suspect she deliberately held high as he looked like he (small 2 yr bull) was a long ways away. And who believes a range-finder in her husband's hand? She hit him where the crosshairs were, but maybe not where she thought they were. Of course.

I'll take lucky ( but never count on it!) , if the wounded animal is recovered.

I finished him at 20 with .260. He wasn't going anywhere.

It says the video is private