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Good shooting to earn that. I still stand by my comment. Battue interperted his vision of the fire. I didn't agree, thats how it goes!

What scope did you use, and how did you dial it from shot to shot?

Also, nobody who takes long shots brag about their screw ups or walks over the 500-700 yards where the animal was standing to check for blood.

Dang, I knew he was pretty good at shooting clays, but I didn’t know he used a friggin rifle!

It wasn't me who posted pics of animals or lake houses that weren't mine and claimed they were.

That makes two of us. But, unlike you, I have posted pics.

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And you're a perpetual braggart. Your job, promotion, rich wife, lake house, the big money you make. The list is nearly endless. I don't need to impress you. Apparently you have a need.

Oh, but iI was never a famous gunsmith like you. I only know because you felt the need to tell us.

No pics of your work though.

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Never claimed to be a famous gunsmith. Said my name was mentioned as co builder of a rifle in a magazine article and it was. Not only are you a proven liar but you exaggerate and make shyt up to suit your story of the day. Just two of many reasons I don't care to impress you.

Have to admit that is a good one!!!!

Participate as you wish...However, there was little interpertation in how I see the the Fire...It was reality. Daily pics and come hunting season they will increase. New gun pics, target pics, camping pics, truck pics, fishing pics, Dog pics, vacation pics. Long written stories of an adventure. And any who tell about their repeated success will eventually be asked for some proof. Pics are not any different than some saying "I killed this many, I've killed this many with this, killed them with a bow, rifle, handgun.”, whatever. If you want to be truthful, writing up about success is little different than actually showing it..Blackheart for example has bragged on about how many Deer he has killed. Iron sight, scopes, etc, etc. He is no different than the rest of us with a bit of A+ personality. Makes no difference if he writes about it or shows pics. Both are a form of bragging. However, one of them is significantly more convincing.

Yeah, I like how posting pics of trophy animals isn’t “bragging”, but posting pics of trophies is

LMFAO

Here I thought this was the “Hunting Optics” forum. I love being able to dial the scope on my 6.5 creedmoor & reach out over 1,000 yards on targets but that isn’t hunting for me.

My range at home is 225 yards but I have an elk vitals sized rock at 500. I don’t own a center fire rifle that can’t consistently hit near the center of the rock with holdover. Will I win a target competition that way? - not hardly. Will I get to eat lots of delicious dead stuff- all day long.

I use a calibrated reticle that is good to 800 but simple holdover is all 90+% of hunters will ever need and is so much faster than dialing its more practical for hunting.

There's more than one way to hunt. Just because I'd have to cut down trees to shoot over 125 yards anywhere on the land I hunt doesn't mean dialing isn't a good options for others hunting elsewhere.

I think this whole thing is being presented backwards. The scopes *I* have that are truly “set and forget” are my Nightforce’s, Zeiss V4’s, etc. IE, the extremely mechanically precise, robust, and stable scopes that I dial to hell and back. A Leupold (say) where a guy needs to check sight-in every year before hunting season and make adjustments to get it back on zero is not set and forget! Where’s the “forget”?! It’s set and reset and reset and reset......

Like daylight saving time. You will always have to readjust your Leupold.

The new long range craze made possible by rangefinders is very technologically interesting & will allow practiced operators the ability to reach way out. That doesn’t change the effects of wind, the stability of rests in the field, or the likelihood of animals moving unexpectedly. Even here on the lunatic fringe most guys won’t shoot many animals past 500 yards.

I know a sniper “instructor” who sets up to shoot bears at 600 yards in steep mountains where recovery is maybe 50% but he gets to brag when he gets one. It’s not my idea of ethical hunting but he wants to be the alpha marksman. Your selection of your tools is your own business- buy a Ferrari to go to the grocery store or a 25x Nightforce to shoot Minnesota Whitetail bucks at 90 yards. But telling me they are necessary is silly.

^^^now that is signature line material par excellence^^^^

My scope needs changed a lot when I moved to the south.

Whitetails in the pines are like elk in the timber but I'm no longer sniping prairie dogs, deer, elk or antelope at distance as I once did.

300 yards across a hay field is as far as I'll be shooting any more so a scope with holdover dots has me covered.

I like to dial the 22 LR rifle but simplifying is working fine for me.

A rangefinder is still nice with the 22s or when I'm hunting a buddies property and I don't know the distances to landmarks across his fields.

Most of my experience tells me that the time from seeing the target animal to acquiring a steady sight picture seldom allows time for fiddle-f***ing around dialing scope turrets.

Even at the typical ranges where a guy would be dialing?

Seems like when I see game 600-800 yards away it usually either isn’t aware of me at all or doesn’t care.

Keep in mind even a guy inclined and equipped to dial can be walking around with their rifle set to MPBZ.... for example it’s as simple as dialing 6 clicks to be 1.5” high at 100 as just a standard, walkaround, “zero”. Does that make sense? So my scope is zero’d at 100 yards; if the dial is at zero, then bullet impacts are dead on at 100. But if I want to have the advantages of max point blank zero I can just click it up 6 clicks and be “zeroed” 1.5” high at 100. But my drop chart is still correct... because my scopes zero point is still the same (100 yards).

Sorry if I’m being annoying, I’ve tried to explain this in years past and failed so I’m trying to say it multiple ways here. In the context of this thread, when you trust your scope it ain’t no thang to dial it around like that. Whereas the set and forget guys get real spooky about it... “don’t touch that dial!”, haha.

I found a target out on my loading bench the other day from when I first got my NF SHV and built my 6.5 SAUM. I did a test with it where I zeroed at 100, fired a single shot, dialed it like crazy, then back to zero, fired a single shot, repeat 5 times. So, the group is at the bullseye at 100 yards, but each shot has a ton of dialing between it and the previous shot. The 5-shot group is around .7”. That’s the kind of mechanical precision/repeatability us “dialers” are talking about.