Originally Posted by Garandimal
Originally Posted by Feral_American
Originally Posted by Garandimal
Originally Posted by Feral_American
Originally Posted by Garandimal
Originally Posted by Feral_American
One could spend weeks, probably months, getting in shape to spend most of the day, or days, getting in position on some of the most rugged and dangerous terrain on the planet, on a hunt of a lifetime, to take a 500, 600, 800 yard shot on a Ram or a Goat on the next slope over....and some random irrelevant knucklehead on the internet preaches it's just killing because it's over 300 yards.

Fly-Sh(t-in-the-Pepper fallacy, don't ya think?

In most cases, one doesn't spend any time at all gettin' in shape, or acquiring either woodsmanship or marksmanship skills, rides their 4-wheeler out to some stand or perch, and then shoots off a rest or table, using their range-finder, weather station, and dialing scope gimmickry.

Sad but true.



GR

Won't say that isn't true in a lot of cases but you're painting with a very broad brush trying to dictate your pompous personal ethics onto others. THAT is the "Fly-Sh(t-in-the-Pepper fallacy".

What is bein' addressed - is the modern culture of increasing range, for the sole purpose of increasing range, at the Exclusion of woodsmanship and marksmanship.

Which is Shooting, not Hunting.




GR

That's just your opinion, nothing less, nothing more. And from an anonymous random irrelevant individual on the internet.

And, I'm the wrong one to preach to on the subject.

I'm lucky to have some sort of deer season from September to March here. I hunt with my long bow and cedar shafts, because I want to. I hunt with a flintlock I built from scratch and roundballs I cast, because I want to. I hunt most of our rifle season with one of many Marlin lever rifles chambered in a host of calibers best suited for short range and "plain ol cup & core" bullets, because I want to. But if I choose to just sit up on a ridge a day or two and watch the open hollers and ridges on the farm with my 18lb 300WM, big glass, range finder, and slick bullets, I'll damn well [bleep] do it and not even remotely owe you an apology for it.

Just an opinion? Really?

Long Range Hunting

There are entire websites dedicated to it.

It's a culture... or even a cult.

It has driven an entire industry of hyper-precise rifles, artificial rests, range-finders, dialing scopes, and ultra-high-BC hunting bullets.

The point is - at some point, Hunting becomes Shooting, but that's another thread.




GR

So freaking what?

Show us on the doll where the long range hunter defiled you.

Mybe you should just worry about doing you Sport.

I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children may live in peace. ~~ Thomas Paine