Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Long range "hunting". What say you?

Knew a guy who was a great camping pardner. Lotta fun to be around, never shirked chores, a great cook, always willing to do whatever was needed around camp. Dispose of garbage or "kitchen" cleanup.....BUT.....he was ALSO well know for his 8 shot, 600 yard kills! 😡

There will be no end to this ethics, stuff it it gets legislated. What is hard for one, to make the shot, is a piece of cake for another. What a nightmare for LEO's ,when trying to say ,the shooter was 10 yards to far.

The longest shot I've made is a little over 900 yds on a hog, have killed a few deer at 4-500, most have been under 200 yd, did almost hit a coyote at well over 1000 using Kentucky windage with the 45-70 guide gun, hit 3 ft to the right of it on the 3rd shot. two members here witnessed that, I was holding what I figured was 75ft over it. It took off before I could adjust for windage.

Ethical? Not?

This isn't what I expect from a good hunter, but for the sake of selling a few guns, Gunwerks thinks this is a good endorsement, even when the kid missed the elk, it was a long range and that is all that mattered. I don't care for the shot and care less for the video...

Seems to me that it would be mighty difficult to find a blood trail if the animal doesn't drop right there. I've had a tough time finding game in sagebrush that were dry. .

How many time is this discussion going to come up on this site? And is it going to get any more ridiculous in the 500th discussion as it was in the first?

I know lots of guys who have a tough time hitting a deer at 50 yards, much less 400, but I would never tell them they should get closer....

And when I'm lining up a shot- no matter if it is 125 yards or 600 yards, I don't really worry too much about what some yahoo on 24hourcampfire thinks I should be doing... but I do think about whether I can make the shot while I am setting up. Do I have a sufficient rest? Is there any obstacles in the way? What is the actual distance and what does my dope sheet say? Can I retrieve the animal from where it will drop? What will I cook for dinner?

A lot of you guys worry way too much about what others do and not enough about how you come off when spouting your "world according to me" opinions.... it's almost as if a lot of guys on this site forget that some of us hunt in different situations than you do and need different skill sets to accomplish our goal...

Well then, you should do what I do. Stand up and sing the first few bars of The Star Spangled Banner before you shoot, that'll make it more sporting.

You can't regulate the range of a shot a hunter takes at big game. I've seen and heard a bunch of terrible shooting by friends and clients that come here hunting. I like when some dumbass says "it was a clean miss" some people get really excited. How the he'll do you miss a deer with a scoped high powered rifle?

Hasn't our very own Johnny Vicarious Burns made a claim that he started the long range hunting trend in a post here.
And saying he was kinda a big deal because of it.

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My thoughts on long range hunting

1) It is not of any interest to me, i prefer to limit my shots to about 200 yards maximu, but this what i enjoy

2) If you enjoy it and are proficient with right equipment, no skin off my nose. Enjoy what you like to do.

3) if you choose to shoot game at very long rabges ( however uou may define that for yourself) please own the right equipment and practice enough to accurate at those ranges.

He invented it according to assskisscamuglia.

Like others, I have seen plenty of "long range" kill shot videos.

Ya, there is a difference between hunting and shooting.

Personally, I would prefer those shooters stick to steel, but I can't name a magical yardage cut-off point.

I do know this: you will not see the video of the shooter hitting the animal in the guts, or ass, never to be found. Those don't get posted.

Actually, there was some retard posting a vid of some elk getting its ear blasted off at 950 yards on this site several years ago.

That might have been John Burns. I seem to recall his long range elk kill took more than one shot… I could be mistaken tho… but not about the retard part…
But in all fairness, he did have kyles balls in his hand when he pulled the trigger

Was at the range with my buddy couple weeks ago. He was getting his rifled dialed in for a Moose/Caribou hunt. He kept fiddling with his turret. I go that thing have a zero stop on it. He goes its not that, its this pos turret I got from Wyoming arms. I started laughing I said the guy that owns that, is a turd and I wouldn't buy chit from him.

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What about long range trapping. Is that OK?

I watch NRL Hunter matches on You Tube. Good shooters w/ exotic gear shooting from difficult positions using everything from bags to tripods. It is rare for every stage to get cleaned by any participant. A good hunter should shoot enough to know his limitations and restrict himself accordingly. It takes a lot of practice to know your limits in all conditions of distance,position wind and slope angle. It only takes being honest w/ yourself to pass on shots that are a "probably, most of the time".

YMMV


mike r

Sure! Set the trap house at 100 yards and use an intercom to call for the bird.
Shouldn't be any harder than long range skeeting!

I’ve seen rodeos on both sides of the isle, but as a general rule I think you’re correct… I won’t endorse some jackass aiming 10 feet high and hoping for the best but I think people taking jackass shots like that aren’t as common as some make them out to be. The bigger threat of wounding critters comes from people taking any shot they’re not comfortable with regardless of range: not just those taking “long” shots, whatever that is defined as.

There’s several people on this very thread bitching about long range hunters that I wouldn’t trust to make a 50 yard shot responsibly, based on some of the things they have posted in the past.

I know a couple of the Wyoming people quoted in the OP’s article and they’re not the kinds of people whom I’d take hunting advice from.