Well said, I shot 1000 YD BR for a number of years. I concur with you. The thing about target shooting is that we got to shoot sighter so SEE if the wind was what we thought - we only had to try and match the conditions as we went along. With hunting, it is very difficult to see where your bullet hits sometimes and no guarantee that the deer will stand around for a 2nd poke!
You shot BR... I shot service rifle. NO sighters at any yard line in CMP matches.... and once I learned what a crutch sighters were, I never used them ever again if allowed by rules not to. You learn a LOT more that way. When the first shot is do or die. And that wasn't a slam at BR either. Just commenting that my particular chosen favorite sport was no sighters. Of course our ten ring was a "bit".... larger than yours ever was.
