Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Long Range Hunting What is your definition of 'long range'?

"500 is probably the outer limit for most rifle/shooter combos"

I'm pretty comfortable on antelope at 400, elk at 500. 600 on elk would have to be perfect conditions, even though I've hit about 40$ on clay pigeons at 600 with various rifles.

Daughter #1 passed on an elk at 476 last fall because she wasn't comfortable, even though she practices out to 600. Good for her. We got to her comfort rage of 400 and the elk were in the trees by then. Oh, well.

Later that day she too 3 shots at a mulie buck at 116 yards. (Dumb-asss buck.) Then another at around 200-300 (I forget the yardage). Something had gone wrong with her rifle. She then used her hubby's .300WSM, which she had never fired before, to nail the second (another dumb-ass) buck.