Posted on 07/13/2016 10:32:57 AM PDT by w1n1
Recent advances in technology enable hunters or anybody to take shots at extreme ranges (TrackingPoint), no untrained shooter would even consider shooting an animal at such range.
Video from Extreme Outer Limits highlights hunters successfully making a 1,315 yard shot on a mule deer. These hunters were using a rifle chambered in .26 Nosler using 140gr Berger VLD bullets with a ballistic coefficient of .612 (an extremely aerodynamic bullet).
There's a mixed sentiment conversation taking place out in the online world whether it is ethical or not.
Some comments were: – the bullet duration time of flight taking too long, even for a high end long range cartridge. With the lag time other what could have happened was that the animal could have moved and be struck to only wound it.
– takes most of the "hunt" out of the experience and turns the experience into target practice on live animals. See the video here. What do you all think about this?
Agree with your sentiments 100%
Another odd Cal Sportsman video. Last time it was some guy killing a pig with a spear. In this one, the range seems far too great to consistently insure a clean, humane kill. And if you simply wound, you now have a much more difficult stalk to finish the botched job. I’d save the long range shooting for prairie dogs, not deer. Yes, in my view it’s unethical.
Target practice, not hunting.
“I got two coyotes with head shots with a .22 LR at 340 yards which is the best I’ve ever done. The bullet drop was almost 36”.”
A 22 LR will drop 120” at 300 yds, you better remeasure your field.
Same here, but I also include loose pit bulls in the county too.
That’s not hunting. That’s “Let’s go shoot something.”
I understand your feeling on the dogs. When we were running cattle we used to have to go shoot the dogs and it was usually golden retrievers that were the worst. Don’t know why.
Now we run bison and all we have to do is once in a while pick up the stomped-flat corpses of dogs who mistook bison for cattle.
Memo to dogs: They are NOT the same thing!
two guys blasting away multiple times? couple misses but keep shooting?
yeah, target practice on live animals. but not “hunting”.
doesn’t mean you don’t have venison burgers that month though.
did you se the yellow rope around the one deers hoof?
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