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Ethically speaking how does one count deer antler points at beyond 300?
Not unlike so much of what you read and hear the long range hunting fad reeks of bravado and bullshit! 100 yards becomes 300. 250 yards become 800.
How many hunting stories have you heard where the teller will yap about their 400 yard shot on a deer sized animal and when asked about hold over or drop compensation their answer is merely a dumb look or something of the like?
I totally agree.If someone wants to hunt long range targets join the US Marines and hunt Taliban .When you wound one of these animals you are still saving a decent persons life by putting them out of action. These long range hunters are a disgrace ,most are unethical fools on some kind of ego trip . I have seen some of these "long range " hunters shoot and I actually believe people who think like this should never be allowed to hunt. In Switzerland you cannot hunt with a telescopic sight on your rifle until you are 50 for this very reason. While I do not agree with this law I can see what Switzerland is trying to prevent :The idiot with a magnum rifle that blazes away at animals at ranges much too far for the hunters skill and ethics of hunting ,missing ,or worse yet wounding and in many cases to far away to find out. This is not hunting.
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Re: Is the .308 Win a viable long range caliber???
