Originally Posted by BobinNH
Originally Posted by elkhuntinguide
Originally Posted by BobinNH
Good post. You would think guys dropping coin for hunts would pay more attention to this stuff.


Thanks Bob and I agree 110%...

Sad thing is, every year more and more guys show up, with their $6500 rifle, $3000 optic, Dope chart taped to the stock and think they are gonna run out and hammer stuff at 800 yds because they paid for the equipment to do it...Hell, they watched the video and the snakeoil salesman told them it'd do it... Most don't put in the time at the range, or prepare for the hunt to allow the stamina to stalk an animal... They show up in their new Kenetrek's ready to shoot long range without the ability to do so...

I love to see guys show up with their ?2.5-12? optic, duplex reticle, capped turret scope sighted in at 300 yds... Raggedy ole boots from miles of walking and ready to hunt... They are at PBR from 0 out to 350 or so and if its further than that we can creep in and get stuff killed... Those days are gone...


EHG: Well.....they aren't gone forever. smile

What you run into is a form of "target panic" aka a subtle form of buck fever brought about by a lack of preparation and too much to worry about when it comes time to kill.

All the technology is not always a benefit.


Despite reading about all these sexy European optics and hard built expensive turret twisting scopes, the simplicity of the Leupold VX3 keeps me coming back. I've been ready to roll out the dough for scopes costing 4x but when I think about what I would use them for while hunting it makes no sense to me. I'm not a good enough shot to take advantage of them and don't have a place to regularly shoot over 400 yds.

These are the problems of a southern red neck;-)