Moose and others,
I met a couple of those guys shooting across a reservoir in Warren County back around '99. Came to where I was working and asked could they access the "back 40" ( A hillside on the Allegheny NF). I asked why, they said they had a deer down back there. I asked did they shoot it from up top and it went downhill, as I hadn't seen anyone accessing from this side. They told me nope, we shot it from across the lake, with a .30-378 and it didn't go anywhere. That's where I first heard of the 1000yd club.
Set up benches and stuff in an overlook and spotted deer across the lake. At the time I thought it was "interesting".
The new 6.5 might just work well for it too.
Geno
