I- for one, do not believe in shooting at our big game in excess of 200 to 250 yards. It is simple in this local, to get within 100 yards of 95% of the big game. Thus, it is easy to pass up on those you can't get within range of.
; For this reason, I see no reason for the Ultra Mags and other super magnum rifles. Companies desiring to fatten their pocket books bring all these huge ctgs. out an merely promote 'sky shots' as Ackley or Keith used to call them. It is one thing to have the ability to shoot long range on big game, and an entirely different matter to go out to buy one of the new large cased rifles because it promises to have the power to kill at long range.
: Fully 90.5% of those who buy those rifles have no worthwhile experience shooting, don't practise due to the cost of the ammo and the recoil, and don't even know that bore sighting didn't sight the rifle in for them.
: I see it every time I go to the range to practise or test ammo myself. Someone arrives with his 'new' cannon, complains the range is only 200 meters, because his 'new' rifle shoots moose at 500 meters". He sets up a target at 200meters and wonders why he can't hit it off the bench, afterall, the guy in the gun shop "set it up 2" high at 100" so it will be on at 200". Makes me sick.
: I've never had to shoot at a deer, moose, bear or elk beyond 100 yards. I believe a hunter never has to. One should do his hunting before pulling the trigger, not guessing whether or not he even hit the animal, after shooting.