Re: 1426 yard deer
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Silver_Bullet_00</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: eddybo</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The vitals of an elk are much greater than 6x6, but vital size should always be taken into consideration. I will not take a shot where I am not 100 percent confident of putting a bullet through an animals vitals whether it be 120 or 1200 yards.
I leave for my long range cow elk hunt Dec.2. I will have to take some video. Usually five or six of us go and we always fill all our tags. We have taken elk from 36 yards to 1187 yards. This is not a hunting trip, this is a grocery getting trip. If presented with a shot in the right conditions 1426 yards would not slow me down a bit.
It would tickle me to sit here and watch the wailing and gnashing of teeth of people who wish to force their perceived morality upon me.
Especially when I do not give a damn what they think. This thread has guaranteed that I will break our 1187 record just for the entertainment value of rousing up the tree huggers. </div></div>
I wish you luck, at least for a clean kill.
But I have to wonder how many shots have you have missed or how many times you have wounded an animal? I bet you don't proudly post those shots.
Someone that wants to kill an animal ethically and not take a risk with a bad shot is not a tree huger. I am all for hunting of animals, not poaching, not for grocery shopping as you call it, and not for careless minded so called hunters who take risks and make our tradition look bad.
I am for conservation of our forests, so my children can enjoy hunting. So if that makes me a tree huger so be it.
You got it right by not posting it in the hunting section. You yourself said you aren't going on a hunt. So I'm glad to see you bragging about your lucky shot in the long range shooting section instead.
Just to explain how risky the shot is- at 1426 yards 1MOA is 14.93 inches. So if your hunting rifle is 1 moa capable at 1426 yards you basically have 15 inches of where the bullet could strike even if you make a perfect shot, which is more than enough for a miss. At 2 MOA we are talking 30 inches. This is not taking into account wind and coriolis.
Someone please correct me on the above figures if I am wrong, Thanks.
So you are basically bragging about a lucky shot that an ethical hunter would not have taken. </div></div>
I wonder how much some of yall have even shot at long range and the level of your equipment. How often have you shot at 1500 yards?
Yo can prepare yourself to kill an animal at extreme ranges if you have the time money and inclination. I will start shooting the rifle that I intend to hunt with exclusively about Nov.1 I will burn about 150 rounds confirming my new long range system. When I get to my hunting area I will fire several shots through out the day while we move from area to area to ranges out past a mile making sure that everything is working. If we set up in an are where a long shot is possible I will usually find something to shoot to verify my drops and wind calls.
My rifle is more like a 1/4 MOA rifle. All of my long range hunting equipment is about as good as I can afford. I shoot thousands of rounds every year preparing for shots like this. My guide knows of my physical limitations and enjoys long range hunting also.
BTW I cannot claim that I have never missed an animal at long range. I have, due to stupidity in forgetting to dial my scope back to zero before dialing my dope. That has to my shame happened twice, both times resulting in very clean misses. I missed an oryx at long range because I was given the wrong incline and range from my guide, we were looking at two different animals. That was the first time we long range hunted together.
I have never wounded an animal that was not recovered within 100 yards of the shot, most are DRT. I have never lost an animal at long range......ooops I forgot I did lose one pig shot at 1600 yards, but did get the other two that were with him. I could have recovered that pig but the land owner said two was enough to skin and he wanted them all dead anyway. I was riding with him that day so I could not really argue the point. He wanted me to shoot the pigs like we do prairie dogs and just leave them lay(Never killed a PD further than 1200). In fact he wanted us to gut shoot them and let them run off and die. We killed probably 20 hogs at that farm. All but the one were recovered and the meat was processed and used or donated. Most of those hogs were killed at distances further than 1400 yards, some as far as a mile. I have also helped a couple buddies who own ranches in TX clear out a bunch of wild goats that they wanted gone. Most of those animals were DRT but some did run off. We were not particularly interested in doing anything other than getting them dead, none were purposefully wounded, but it may have happened. We did not take as much time on them as we may have a bug game animal, there were just so many targets. The area we cow elk hunt in is overpopulated, according to the state but we are still very careful when filling our tags. Nobody wants to be eating an animal that has been running around near shock full of adrenaline. I responded to your questions, now answer mine above. Tell me all about your experience shooting long range. Tell me how you know this is all so difficult and that all long range kills shots are all just luck.
