Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Ask The Gunwriters What Does It Take - to Hunt Medium/Large Game at 600 Yards?

As I've said before, it would be simple to outlaw the use of lazer range finders for big game hunting and that would take care of most of these 500+ yard pokes. I'm not and wouldn't advocate for that but it wouldn't be anything I'd be upset about either. On the other hand, don't expect me to be impressed by the "sportsmanship" or "fair chase" ethics of these 800+ yard killers because I'm not.

You flatter yourself in thinking anyone cares whether you're impressed.

Hunting seasons can't get here soon enough.......

Obviously these long range "hunters" seek to and think they are impressing somebody, judging by all the videos and hero pics/stories they post on the web. It's almost as obvious as you seeking to impress with your incredible intellect.

So do long range “hunters” back up if game is spotted to close?

Asking for a friend.

My intellect is about average. But I understand why you think it's amazing.

I don't and neither does anybody else except you and that's obvious to anybody who reads your posts. Kind of pathetic but then old hippies always are.

I’ve asked similar several times…..though, it was pertaining to the use of very fragile bullets on large big game! memtb

Not nearly as pathetic as old aššholes.

Old hippies are old ass holes. It's a universal fact.

Ever wonder why you're consistently at odds with other members?

LOL. As if you had room to talk. The entire purpose of Raferman is insult and instigate.

:-) Yeah, I have posted a number of times on this thread! According to my count, a dozen times before this one.

Blackheart matched that 21 hours ago--and is now up to 17!

You're at 23...:-)

Maybe so but I'm not the one chiding others for posting on the thread.

Your count is off by the way.

Obviously not.

Yap, you're right. According to my latest count I'm at 18 posts here, counting this one.

You're still ahead of me by several.

Thought I was plain about being amused by the entire thread, including both our posts, but maybe not....

If you run into one ahole, you ran into an ahole. If you run into aholes all day long, maybe you're the ahole...

Another comment I'd like to make is on this broad comment by Blackheart--which implies that hunters in general have a broad consensus of what "fair chase" means.

They do not. I've been lucky enough to hunt in over half of the 50 United States, along with over a dozen other countries, some of them several times. The regulations concerning legal "weapons" vary considerably, including cartridges, bullet diameters and weights, as well as bows, muzzleloaders, etc. Legal shooting hours also vary considerably: While most American states (and Canadian provinces) pretty much stick to a half-hour before sunrise to a half-hour after sunset for "game" animals, some allow an hour before and after. Some states and countries also allow all-night shooting--some only for certain animals, and some not.

There are also widely varying laws about the use of artificial lights, baiting, etc. In fact in some parts of the world (including in the U.S) I have talked to hunters who are completely baffled by how somebody might hunt a wild big game animal by just going out and looking for them--rather than sitting near to a pile of potatoes, a "greenfield", an automatic corn-feeder--or sitting in a stand where trained dogs push animals near the hunter.

Some allow hunting any sort of big game with dogs, while others ban it completely. A few allow night- or dog-hunting for some species, but not others.

If I included the methods allowed for fishing this could go on forever--but my main point is that no, there is no consensus "on what technology can be employed with respect to sportsmanship, ethics and what constitutes 'fair chase'."

It might seem so to somebody who's only hunted in a very limited part of the world, such as Blackheart in New York. But there is no world-wide, sport-hunting consensus on what constitutes "fair chase."

I'm aware of all of that and did not intend to imply broad consesus about what is sporting or fair chase across state lines. And here you are increasing your post count on this thread again.

If you don't run into ass holes every day you either don't go anywhere or aren't very aware of what goes on around you because there sure as hell ain't a shortage of them.