I'll continue to try to stick with the 300 yard limit for my first shot.

I have a range finder and reticles that will get me to 500 yards but I don't like doing that on live elk or deer except under rare circumstances. The canyon country we usually hunt simply has too much wind for my taste.

Coyotes are excepted of course.

I did kill one deer at 465 yards [paced at 30 inch pace]. I didn't like the bullet performance and I haven't done it since.

I shot on base teams in the Marines and 500 meters is pretty familiar to me. So is wind. It is the real problem past 500 yards especially.

Our range has 100, 200, 300, 600, 800 and 1,000 yard ranges but I don't get to use them except the shorter ranges. Maybe I should make the time.

I do know where all my main rifles shoot to 300 yards for sure. And that is from positions, off my sticks and off my pack not just off a bench.

My '06's, a 35 Whelan and my 338 I know out to 400 yards. This is with two loads only per rifle. One is a practice load with a Core-Lokt or Hornady and a second load with a premium bullet/factory premium load.