Ok amateur ballisticians and expert range estimators, what's wrong here...

He merely forgot to tell you that he was extreme mountain hunting and the shot was at a 75 degree angle. Come on, this is obvious :)
 
canuckchap said:
Quite a deer. Anyone know what a buck that size would score. ;) LOL
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I don't know, but if I run into him I'm going to need a bigger gun.

OP, you should print off a trajectory sheet for the 30-06 and ask the storyteller how that all works out in the real world. Or maybe he has a special 30-06 that shoots WAY hotter and flatter than a 338LM. I want one of those myself.:D

Mark
 
the old"HAIL MARY" shot. Maybe he should have mumbled some verse from the bible or something like those snipers do on the movies when they are looking through the scope about to waste the enemy.
 
I would love to see the deer that has a 60'' inch chest top to bottom:rolleyes:

That sucker must be 18 hands high at the shoulder and weigh 1200lbs:rolleyes:

Someone should let him know that if he mounted the scope the right way he wouldn't aim high thinking a animal was 700 yds when he was actually 200;)
 
I just hope that someone so woefully inept in their understanding of ballistics would never attempt such a shot.

On the other hand, I would hate to know the number that do.
 
pharaoh2 said:
I'm talking to a co-worker today who was telling me his story about his hunt last week. Him and his buddy spot a deer at a little over 700 yards. He knows that was the range for a fact...

Now my guy says he lines up on the deer with his .30-06 shooting factory loaded 180 grain soft points. He fires his first shot and knows he shot over the deers back. His partner was spotting for him on this 700+ yard deer. He reloads and settles the crosshair right on top of the deers back and fires again. Down goes the deer, so they go after it quite proud of the 700+ yard shot. When they arrive, the deer is gone nowhere to be seen. They searched all over but had no clue where it ended up.

So now I ask this fellow how high his rifle shoots at 100 yards, and he tells me about 3 inches....

Now, figure out whats wrong with this story. :D :D :D
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So the confirmed range of 700 yds.... alot of folks don't realize just how far that is....
Your buddy isn't Bob Lee Swagger by any chance is he??
 
Listen to this one. A co-worker and I are talking guns and he tells me about shooting his 22lr at the 500m gong at the local range. He says that people are amazed at how accurate it is. I ask him how high do you have to holdover, he replies "about six feet over the rams back". I didn't have the heart to tell him I was there the weekend before plinking with my son trying for the 300 and holding what seemed like 30 feet high to get a hit. Oh yeah and he knows where all the record deer are, they never move you know.
 
This story is true! I witnessed it! I am also a necromancer, and before the person could come to the deer, I brought it back to life as a zombie deer and brought it to my garage of zombies and moon cheese. The deer is now eating a diet of corn and corn fed vegans(deer become slightly carnivorous after becoming zombies). When the deer becomes too violent, my pet porcupine Sticky will put a venomous quill in his neck and kill it. Then my hunchbacked assistant, who is also the world's tallest midget, will clean the deer and I shall have zombie venison for dinner.
Tell your friend I cursed him. That 30-06 causes alot of meat damage. Do you know how bad bullet damaged zombie meat is? That's why I use the deadly porcupine quills.
I think I need to head to bed now.
 
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