Oh really, what's my assessment of all Northeast hunters ? I don't recall giving one.
It’s pretty easy to see BH, you think if folks don’t see things the way you see it they’re doing something wrong and it’s somehow not hunting in your narrow scope of the world. Many folks learn to hunt multiple different ways and adapt to the situation. You assume that since many folks that take longer shots than what you do in your little corner of the world they don’t know what they’re doing or know how to hunt.
You asked what the cut off for LR was and it was probably boring or somehow unsporting to shoot at an animal further than what you typically do. That’s a pretty broad brush of nonsense. Just because you choose to hunt deer in the woods and like to still hunt around doesn’t mean most of the folks that know how to track, stalk and shoot couldn’t do it in the Adirondacks or any other hunting ground anywhere.
I have taken game in the open at several hundred yards distance in the past. I don't find it terribly exciting. The further away you are from game, the less likelihood of detection, that's pretty simple and universal. Many here assume if we use the wrong scope or choose not to shoot at long distance that we are not good marksmen. In fact , over and over we've seen the optics geeks say anybody who doesn't use XYZ scope simply isn't a good enough shot to know if their scope holds zero or not. Nothing could be further from the truth.
