Didn’t read all the post , but people who do these long range shots are sometimes people who don’t do and realize the time and effort it takes to become efficient at this game
Myself ? Not a long range shooter , but know of lots of people who think they’re a crack shot cause they got lucky and killed a deer or bear at several hundred yds off handed
Then set down on a bench and shoot with them and they’re shooting 3-4” groups off a bench and you see how much of crack shot they really are
These same people go around continually taking these shots and do indeed Fugg up some game and billy bob sees this and puts them in a LR shooter class and gets an I’ll gotten opinion of it

Hell I went to a match a couple years ago and couldn’t even see the bulls eye at three hundred yards
Centered on paper and shot a good group , but score sucked
But the guys who had actually invested in upper level glass shot some fantastic scores
And this was just 300 yds
So I do get it that there are skilled shooters out there that are capable of getting it done .
Kenneth