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BH, my last word on the matter to you is simply GFY.

You have no clue.

MM

Blackheart you are just wrong on this. I grew hunting black tail deer and my longest shot for years was just over 100 yards. When I started hunting Idaho and Nevada in many places there was no cover no way to get close. I have let a lot a deer walk because I couldn’t get within comfortable range at the time There are many different ways to hunt and take game. Your myopia is telling.

Slut

Every video in this thread that I have watched has shown substantial obstacles between the shooter and the target. If you had ever hunted open mountain terrain, you'd know that you have to take the shots the terrain and the time gives you. Walking closer to the animal isn't always an option. It's not like he's seeing animals at 200 yards and walking further away just to try to notch a long distance kill. I'll let him tell you this, but I suspect that he'll tell you that before he takes any long distance shots he evaluates whether or not the terrain will let him get closer in a timely manner. It's a matter of either not taking the shots at all or taking them shots at distances your skill level won't allow you to. There may be no feasible in between.

That's hunting. You ain't supposed to be able to kill every animal you see. The quarry is supposed to have a sporting chance of detecting danger and making an escape. How did they ever manage to get it done before the advent of rangefinders ? Folks today want to make everything as easy as possible, replacing skill and work with gadgetry.

Again, you ain't supposed to be able to kill every animal you see. See my post above for more on that. Do you people have any limits on sportsmanship or ethics at all ? If shooting animals from 5 miles away were possible, would that still be sporting or ethical or fair chase ? I swear I don't know why some of you don't just hunt at night with a spot light or night vision optics or just shoot your "trophies" inside a high fence. At some point in the future, the technology to kill from as far as you can see may be possible. Are you still going to consider that sporting and ethical and fair chase ?

I have every fuggin clue buckwheat. We have open country and opportunities for long shooting here if that's what you want to do. I simply choose not to hunt that way.

Much of the challenge of mountain hunting is the physical challenge. Just getting to where the animals are will have most people sucking wind. When you kill an animal, you don't go back, get the 4 wheeler and load it up. When I lived in Kodiak, I pretty much knew when I set out to hunt the mountains that I was going to bag a nice blacktail. All I had to do was put in the work to get to where they were. Then I got to enjoy the work of packing the animal out. Should I have passed on the opportunity because I pretty well knew I was going to kill one?

Hell, if you have killed 200+ animals, doing what you do can't be that much of a challenge. What's that, four deer per year for each year of your adult life? Sounds really difficult.

W Well, considering our hunter success rate on bucks runs roughly 15% statewide, which is far less than many states, I doubt it's that easy comparatively. Of course that success rate includes public and private land and areas of widely differing deer density and hunting pressure. Since I've filled my buck tags every year except for two when I didn't get to hunt, and mostly on public land, I'd say I've done alright. Oh yeah and ATV's aren't legal on public land here. You kill it, you're bringing it out on shanks mare. I might have brought out 5 or 6 via ATV in my whole life.

Now you have really made it sound like you need to add a new layer of difficulty to your hunts to make them more sporting. Maybe you could cover yourself in cougar piss and wear bells on your boots. If you are filling every tag every year, what you are doing isn't difficult. If I had the money, I'd pay to send you out west to hunt with Burns. I'd get a kick out of watching you suck wind and quit climbing.

Good gawd another perfectly good thread shot to chit. LOL

He's a legend in his own mind...................just sayin'.

Maybe even a narcissist too, to boot. Maybe rivals Daniel Boone.

MM

Relatively par for the course on this optics forum... I mean Leupold tactical in the military has a pile to do with hunting in the Adirondacks and how boring it is to hunt animals

Right????

Northern Maine, Northern New York, Vermont and New Hampshire are known for being some of the most challenging whitetail hunting in the Country, yet there are people who fill their tags year after year.

It's about what constitutes sporting, ethical and fair chase, what if anything doesn't and where you draw the line dummy.

Let's get back on track.

Marines getting it done with Leupold.

Btw my new batch of layin hens are doin stellar!! 😂😂

You don't get to draw another persons line. Draw your own.

Great picture.. Heard those Marines were probably ok with a long gun...

Kinda surprised they didn't break them though... Nothing to do with Leupold per se, but we've tended to break ball bearings.




Hell yeah... Great add on J Man!

I guess when you start killing some elk, bear, deer, lions, at your predetermined ranges that you deem sporting than we can concede your point, but I am pretty sure we're completely safe.

The dummy part was pretty good, that really drove the point home..