Long shots on game

[Silverado]

It's interesting to me JP that your 300 Win Mag is zeroed at 100yards...

That seems awful close to me... do you use a ranging or ballistic reticle of some kind?

I keep my 30-06 zeroed at around 225 depending on the load. I think I'd zero a 300mag a bit further out yet if it were me...

For a long shot rig, I'll likely be zeroed at 300 yards or so, depending on the exact ballistics of the round I end up with.

 

[catnthehatt]

It's interesting to me JP that your 300 Win Mag is zeroed at 100yards...

That seems awful close to me... do you use a ranging or ballistic reticle of some kind?

I keep my 30-06 zeroed at around 225 depending on the load. I think I'd zero a 300mag a bit further out yet if it were me...

For a long shot rig, I'll likely be zeroed at 300 yards or so, depending on the exact ballistics of the round I end up with.

I ran that data throiugh my quikload, Silverado ( 180Game King @2950FPSwith a 60 degree angle). I'll contact you today.
Interesting that would would hold over the ears of that doe, JP.
Cat

 

[catnthehatt]

So if you see a game animal and it's 200 yds away, are you going to keep walking until it is 400 yds. away? Seems to me to be a lot of hassle to keep checking back over your shoulder with your rangefinder until you are 400yds. away, the animal may get wise to you because this year everyone with a T-3 in WSM is using TSX for 400yd. shots!

The river here averages 400 yards plus across.
Add the height and distsnce of the upper edge of the bank and you get some interesting conditions.

The interesting thing is , on the river you can get likely 5 shots isnide 150 yards for every shot outside!
This rock I am shooting at is 590 yards away, up the side of the bank.

Cat

 

[44fordy]

This just seems weird to me.....maybe it's just me...

If you want to master your rifle....go to the range. Ya sure, you can shoot game at 5-600 yards, whatever, but you run a higher risk of botching your shot and wounding the animal, which is about the uncoolest thing you can do.

Your want to be a marksman, spend hours at the range.

You wanna be a hunter, see how close you can get to the animal and take him quick and clean.
(Of course all that range time just makes you move effective in the field, and if posed with a long shot, you will be able to take it.)


My 2 cents...

 

[Silverado]

Agreed 100% 44fordy... and I'll state again that I wouldn't take the shot under less than ideal conditions.

My longest shot on an animal to date is about 150 yards, and the rest have all been well inside 100. I've never had to shoot twice, and I've never lost an animal (well, except for a grey partridge once...)

The appeal to me is just that it's a different kind of hunt. Living in Alberta, I've spot & stalked, tracked in the snow, still hunted, stand hunted, even road hunted some backwoods logging roads when it was damn cold outside. What I haven't done however, is hunted the open grassland and coulee/desert areas of the province. I plan to do that next year, and I'd like to be able to reach out a long way and drop a mulie or antelope when I do.

Am I going to walk farther away to make the shot? Of course not.

On the flip side, I also plan this year to fill one of my doe tags with a shotgun/slug, and I'm passing on the archery hunt this year because I'm just not confident enough about my shooting yet. (Wasn't able to put the time in, you see...)

 

[dw]

251yrds on a blacktail deer.....so size comparison thats like a 800yrd shot on a moose right?

Practise lots, burn alot of powder and bullets....use a great rest and know your limitations....good luck on the hunt