800 yard mule deer heart shot

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What’s up everyone! Thanks for checking out our video. I wanted to begin this with a little background information as I know this will be a little controversial because of the distance of the shot. I want to start off by mentioning that our friend Nolan was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis earlier this year. For those of you who are not familiar, MS is a disease that effects the central nervous system causing a variety of symptoms including Double vision, muscle weakness, trouble with sensation, and trouble with coordination. Due to this debilitating disease Nolan, who is an avid outdoorsman and hunter has had to rethink the way he can hunt. When I found out Nolan had enough priority to draw for an antlered mule deer in my area I knew I had the perfect spot for him to have an opportunity at his first mule deer, but I also knew this spot could potentially only present a shot that would exceed any shot the average hunter would ever consider taking. After talking to Nolan about the potential to to seal the deal on his first Mule deer buck he jumped at the opportunity, applied for his draw and was successful in drawing a tag. After drawing the antlered mule deer tag we knew (replace with then )we needed to get to work and spent countless hours shooting out to 1000 meters with my semi custom 300RUM with hand loaded 220gr Hornady ELD-X bullets, and my gunworks br2500 rangefinder programmed for my custom loads. After many many rounds I was confident he could make an ethical shot at an outrageous distance if the opportunity presented itself. With all this being said I hope you enjoy the video and I hope anyone out there who doesn’t think they can do something because of circumstances beyond their control gains some kind of motivation or hope from this video. Without further ado check it out!

https://youtu.be/cDCj4lVSBy0
 
Nice shot.

Personally, I would never take it, mostly because I have no way to practice out to 1000 like you guys did
Which to me is the key point - you practised and fine tuned your gear so you know he had a pretty good chance to make the shot given the conditions
And you have the gear to be able to accurately determine distance etc

Well done indeed !
 
Bigbubba said:
Nice shot.

Personally, I would never take it, mostly because I have no way to practice out to 1000 like you guys did
Which to me is the key point - you practised and fine tuned your gear so you know he had a pretty good chance to make the shot given the conditions
And you have the gear to be able to accurately determine distance etc

Well done indeed !
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Thank you sir! Conditions were near perfect also, there was basically zero wind. The night before there was a lot of wind and I told him he wouldn’t be shooting past 400
 
Yes, i could tell that - the grass was not moving at all. So perfect conditions.

I shot an antelope (broadside) in a pretty good wind at 300 yds with my 270 going 3100 fps and my point of aim was just in front of the back leg and I double lunged him.

Thats how much the bullet moved sideways at 300, (but i had practiced in the wind so I had a pretty good idea)

I can't imagine 1000 in a good wind

Good for you for telling him that.
 
Nice shot, what gun and chambering?

So, do you think you really had to whisper when the buck was 800 yards out? :)

thanks for sharing!
 
hawk-i said:
Nice shot, what gun and chambering?

So, do you think you really had to whisper when the buck was 800 yards out? :)

thanks for sharing!
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We joked about that afterwards. There were other deer closer to us though that we didn’t want to spook lol.

Rifle is a savage 110 in 300 RUM shooting 220 GR Hornady ELD-X reloads.

On a good day it’s Capable or 1/4 MOA I would never say any rifle is 1/4 MOA all day but she’s a right rifle lol.
 
hmmm ,,,,OP- "ethical shot at outrageous distance", sorry,, oxymoronic comment,,, controversial is correct..
 
iron cat said:
And just what is your aim responding to posts like this with an assinine comment like that?
Don't like it? too bad , he wasn't looking foor your appproval.
Cat
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And what is your aim responding to posts like his? Don't like it? Too bad, he wasn't looking for your approval either.

Sorta goes both ways, eh?

He's 100% correct in that there is literally zero hunting skill required to "hunt" at extreme range. Definitely shooting skills are required, but zero hunting skill, much like hunting from a truck....
 
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