It is always so easy to find one example to prove ones point. An exceptional reader of animal body language had the unique experience of seeing a Bull Moose and how it reacts to being bit on the nose, and then can extrapolate that perhaps once in a human lifetime event to the ethics of LR shooting. Just wow....
I once saw a Moose Cow look and then ignore me from perhaps 70 yards. Therefore, all Moose Cows will probably give you a look and then go on and ignore you. That is my one experience. Wow....
You're the one doing the extrapolating. You introduced ethics. I avoided ethics and said so. I merely told the tale. Do with it what you want but own what you do with it. Animals move. Sometimes they move when we don't expect them to. Deal with it. It is reality. Movement may not be likely at a given moment but the possibility is reality. On any shot any of us take we try to reduce the odds of a miss as low as possible, at long or short range.
It is curious why a significant percentage of long rangers are so defensive. This started with a question (that seemed defensive or sarcastic) about how fast an animal can move, as if that is a stupid topic when one is shooting at the animal. Since my reply about how fast this old animal can move, all I have said is that other things being equal, distance reduces odds of a hit and I agreed with someone that no one can totally control nor predict wind nor animal movement. That is mere reality. Reasonable people agree, do what they can to improve their odds and take their shot. Good for them. Defensive folks call it idiocy and being judgmental.
