Good points Tom.
Question Tom, at what ratio of clean kills vs. wounded animals are acceptable to you? 10 kills, 3 wounded? 3 kills, 10 wounded?
In my state, wanton waste of game, not recovered by a good faith effort is illegal and punishable. How does this play out in a scenario where 'pot shots' might be taken at game, and said animals are never recovered?
What about wounded game that may have been taken cleanly by other hunters not out to snipe game? What about unrecovered animals, the meat not eaten by a hunter, and they are taken out of the reproductive pool?
What about hunters who get '2nd dibs' on shot opportunities, when bullets are flying over them towards game they are stalking?
Thoughts? Are ANY and ALL LR Game Sniping shots justified? Or should one consider the true costs of shots gone awry?
Whats an acceptable range? 800 yds? 1200? 1600? 2200? Where does this trend end?
You are delving way off course here... Folks get shot past all the time on public grounds... it isn't only LR folks that might do that by accident... hell I've seen folks do it much shorter ON PURPOSE...
As to acceptable... beat to death its been, but you cannot put a distance on it... it all depends... its up to the shooter to know that he is 200% sure... and an LR guy is generally... while the weekend wally world bore sighted warriors blaze away at game up close, wounding more, loosing more... not even going to look... the LR shots are by far the LEAST of your concerns ethically by far.
