How does lack of hunting skills have anything to do with killing a deer you ask?
That's easy, barring the use of monstrosity rifle/scope combos, if a guy does not have the requisite hunting skills (ie. ability to get sportingly close to an animal) then he's not at all likely to be a successfull hunter. A successful shooter perhaps, but not a successful hunter.
Reloading and trigger time on the range has very little to do with hunting.
Take a guy that takes to the hills every year with a bow and fills his tag. This same guy can put 'em in tight out to 800 yards on paper. Now, take another guy that only has the tools and skills to shoot out to 800 and kill paper targets and/or animals.
The former is a hunter , the other is merely a shooter . By extension, one is hunting and the other is shooting.
Thus, my rationale for why this particular forum should be more aptly titled Long Range Shooting, instead of Long Range Hunting.
