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Or maybe the most absurd thing is the encouragement of shooting game from field positions at much past 250 yards with any gun & cartridge!"

Amen, brother, amen. In addition to my agreement on the first point, shooting any game at long distance should be done from a rest, prone using a support, and only if that is the ONLY way to approach game in the first place (i.e. varmints, mountain critters, etc, all of which must be hunted at 300+ yards.) There are many of us who go out West and tag prairie poodles at way beyond that range, using a portable benchrest and big optics. There is no way to get close enough to shoot offhand if you were silly enough to try. And, would any humane or sane hunter shoot any animal at long range where the risk of wounding it and not following up quickly to finish the job was a possibility.

Remember the old hunting adage, "First, get as close as you can, THEN GET TEN YARDS CLOSER BEFORE YOU SHOOT!"

Dave

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What you say is true, I find that most shooters in the field can't keep all their shots on a 55 gal drum at 300 yds under hunting conditions, off hand, and some from a rest. My thing is "get close, the closer", but that is not what started this thread!

The thread started with a little tongue in cheek snikering, implying that a double rifle was useless for long range shooting at game! That implication is what I was addressing, not should anyone shoo that far!

The fact is a double rifle properly loaded, is just as capable as any single barrel hunting rifle,of like chambering, if the owner knows what he is doing at the loading bench, and when zeroing his sights, scope, or iron!

I would say there are those on this website, who know how to zero a scope for double rifle shooting, some who own, and shoot double rifles do not! They think they do, but the fact is they do not. Addtionally most who do not own, and shoot doubles, are clueless for the most part! These people try to zero the scope on a double the same way he does on a single barrel rifle and that will never work past the point where he zeroed it!