In regards to long range shots, or what people THINK are long range shots, the funniest experience I had was when I worked at a gun store several years ago. Some wiseacre comes in with a Browning autoloading rifle in .300 Win mag and asks me to mount and boresight a scope on it for him. He then hands me this enormous Burris 36X benchrest scope.
I ask him why on earth he would want to mount this scope on this gun. He then promptly explains that he regularly shoots moose with this rifle at 1,000 yards and wants a more powerful scope so he can, "see the moose better" as last time out he had to fire TWO rounds at it before it went down.
There was about 5 minutes of stunned silence on my part, and I tried valliantly not to laugh. I then explained to him that this scope is specifically designed for bench-rest shooting from a solid table and rifle rest, and that your heartbeat alone caused the scope to waver all over the place. Besides the fact that the rifle itself would hardly be capable of that level of accuracy over that distance, and no one in their right mind would really want to shoot game at such extended range.
He insisted that he did it all the time, and that he had shot 3 moose at that range already. Now, if you really want to test a person to see if they know what they are talking about, ask these simple questions:
[1] What range is your rifle zeroed at? His answer - I don't know, whatever the guy who mounted the scope last time boresighted it at. Hmmm. That's good for 100 yards. On paper. Maybe.
[2] How much do you hold over at your 1000 yard shot? His answer - what is holdover? I just aim and shoot dead on. Hmmm again.
My conclusion was that his 1000 yard moose shots were actually more along the line of 100 yard shots, if that, not to mention this clown didn't even have the basic intelligence to sight in his damn gun in the first place; boresighting is NOT sighting in! (You would be surprised at the number of so-called hunters that do that.)
In the end, I just mounted the damn thing and sent him on his merry way. He probably ended up shooting some tree stump across the field, or whatever brown object happened to appear in his crosshairs. Yup, long range shooting at it's finest! Carlos Hathcock would be green with envy....