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Kudu11,

Maybe you didn't notice, but you posted in the Long Range Hunting forum. Just a heads up to a new guy.

I don't understand the mindless stupidity and monstrous ego of anyone who would try something as stupid as this,and post it on Youtube with all the production hoopla,knowing the animal was wounded and lost.

I think he needs counseling and should have his hunting license yanked for wanton wasting of game.Pathetic.

Lucky? How? He never recovered it!

It has absolutely nothing to do with getting closer or proper hunters get closer. This is a long range hunting forum . The OP is getting knocked down for taking a very risky, low percentage head shot when he had a broadside body shot available.

Ringman, just a heads up for a guy who doesn't get it. This has nothing to do with being a new guy. The two most accomplished and vocal proponents of long range hunting on the forum have already roundly criticized this bozo.

To me it isn't the distance...it's the shot placement selection, lousy execution,and disregard for the animal.

The deception with the flowery video and failure to recover is deceiving and dishonest. Anybody hawking this kind of garbage has the scruples of a crocodile.

If what Tanner says is true,it takes a lot of nerve to ask us "what we think", deliberately leaving out the part about not recovering the animal.

I agree in general that distance is not the issue. In particular though, if you're gonna do a head shot, you need to get closer.

Posting a video of a risky botched shot is just plain idiotic.

Notice the road on the map, even the laziest road hunter could have strolled a lot closer.

Thinking an updraft along a couple of those ridge lines, might have easily botched that shot....

A quarter MOA load doesn't leave a lot of room for the brain pan at 900. Pretty arrogant to claim confidence on that shot.

Those elk were on the move. Given the time of flight of a bullet over 900 yards,there's no way in hell of knowing where that elk's head would be when the bullet got there without a crystal ball.

If he had spent the time doping his crystal ball, he may have made this.

perhaps crystal ball AI?

either way, I'd just like to hear it from the horses mouth if the recovery issue is true, and what was the reason for the post.

She had those guys made, the only reason she held that position for so long.

Being a long range forum should not throw common sense out the window. In fact y'all should condemn all such shenanigans and try to keep others from trying such schitt for the infamy of it. Just as surely as ATV's got a lot of ground posted, slob shooters with a video camera will hurt long range hunters that try to do the right thing. You will all be lumped together. miles

All but one have condemned it.

The thing the stands out to me the most is that he apparently registered here just to show off that shot. I don't think this is the crowd he thought and won't be back most likely.

what a fuggin idiot. Looks like a 1ear'd elk with a close shave on one side

I've got a little bit of "incriminating" evidence screen-shotted, but I'll give coldboremistake the benefit of the doubt and let him come on here and tell the real story.....

Tanner

Should I remind you, you suggested he get closer? That's why I reminded you this is the Long Range Hunting forum. What others posted about the video doesn't change the fact you wanted a hunter, who posted in the Long Range Hunting forum, to get closer.

Dennis, it shows that he registered on 02/22/12, and had 4 posts in Feb. and March of 2012, and then showed back up with this. I have not read his old posts, but they might be interesting. miles

Biggest mistake the douche made was slowing the impact down. Easily visible it was a grazing shot -

Definitely little man syndrome -

And that would be me.
If you read my post, and watched the video, I commented on the TECHNICAL aspect of the shot, and I also made some ASSUMES. If you have not read it, please go back and do so.
Most all but one, me, posts here are on the ETHICKS of the shot. All I will say is that everyone has thoughts on the subject, as some think 25 yrds is sane, others 2500. Ethicks boil down to the indiviual shooter, as it should.
If ethicks are the primary concern, the Long Range Hunting forum should not be promoted here, maybe changed to Long Range Shooting, with no HUNTING videos permitted. I think then most P.& M. would stop, and I could actually learn something.

Thank You