This year cariboo hunting... Rifle set for 600 metres...

hawk-i said:
Nice pics Boomer!
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Thanks.

I hope Caramel takes a look at them, as they tend to illustrate the problem. Do you notice how few animals are broadside? Most are either quartering or head on. Notice how the difference in target angle changes the apparent target size. Some of those don't present much of a target at all, and a long range shot would likely end up in the hip. Another thing about caribou is that they are seldom stationary, they are constantly moving, perhaps 3-5 mph while grazing, so the long range firing solution must be fluid. Now caribou are sucks and tend to give up easily compared other game with similar bullet wounds. But that does not justify a marginal shot. No shot on game should be taken if the outcome is not sure. The proper place to challenge one's marksmanship is on the rifle range.
 
So I guess if you find yourself at 200m away from a nice, large Caribou, you will ask him to stay there while you move out another 400m to a more "challenging" position to take the shot? Hmmmm.... seems reasonable...
 
With a BC of 475 Nosler Accubonds at 2900 FPS ?? Conventional wisdom is 1000 ft lbs for deer, or black bear, 1500 for elk, moose.
your load is just giving 1200lbs of energy at 600 guess your just making it ???
manitou
 
BigUglyMan said:
Good luck with the hunt. If you only take shot you're sure of then the haters will have nothing to bray about. Mind you, bray they will.
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Haters of what? Wounding animals? Yup, I freely and openly admit that I hate wounding animals and dislike it when others do, so I tend to only take shots I'm reasonably sure of making and certainly hope I'm not alone in that thinking.
 
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bearkilr said:
Haters of what? Wounding animals? Yup, I freely and openly admit that I hate wounding animals and dislike it when others do, so I tend to only take shots I'm reasonably sure of making and certainly hope I'm not alone in that thinking.
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You are not alone, thats for sure! Did anyone else notice the OP didn't return to this thread? Seams like a trend . . . . . . Anyone remember the coffee can at 800m Laugh2
 
I personally don't care if the OP takes the 600 yard shot or not.He has his mind made up of what he is capable of.

Would i do the same or am I capable, maybe , maybe not , but I am not the one who has to live with the wounding of an animal or long tracking job.

Heck, I was 23 yards away from game yesterday and wasn't presented the right shot!!!
 
My personal longest is 515 yards on a white tail buck . Atmospheric conditions were perfect , a standing broadside shot and my rig and i are capable of it . In fact , capable of longer under the conditions in which i'll shoot which are clinical conditions shooting at game . I've shot several from 350 to 450 yards . In calm air i can easily ring the 10 inch plate , 10 for 10 at 700 and do the same on a 24 inch plate at 1,000 . A caribou at 600 yards , under the conditions in which i'll shoot live game , yes , i'd take the shot , and i'd make the shot .
 
caramel said:
Because i challenge myself to it, kind of a little pleasure of life, i will probably miss but if i succed i will be proud, got the rifle, got the will, why not...JP.
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Do you have much experience shooting WT deer at varying distances with the same rifle and load?
And how is your wind reading abilities?

Your "probably miss" statement could easily be "probably wound it" also.

No offence intended, but these kind of flipant statements make me wonder of your big game harvest experience or lack thereof.
 
caramel, caribou aren't terribly difficult to hunt. They certainly don't spook as easily as a whitetail might. You don't need to shoot at 600 yards, and probably shouldn't, even if you can. Hunting is more than shooting.
 
Seems to me he wants to kill at long range. Not hunt.
On a two way range it's a different thing altogether if you wound a target. The goal is to render the target no longer combat effective. Dead or severely wounded fills that bill.
An animal that you are hunting deserves the respect of a clean kill, an assured clean kill. I know that I am not sure of that at 600 yards therefore I would not even consider it.
 
If i take the shot, i wont miss, if the conditions are not perfect, i will pass and as far I will probably miss, i dont really believe that... JP.
 
Caramel, please stop posting stuff that is so easy for the antis to use. If you make hunters look like idiots, people will think hunters are idiots.

We don't want that. Maybe it doesn't bother you, but hunters don't want that.
 
I smell troll! I am a hunter, and there are many animals I would like to shoot at longer ranges than what I am capable of. (Work in progress:)) But caribou is not one of them. I can easily get within comfortable distances. A moose I could understand, I have seen some lying on a hill 600 yards away. No breeze, beautiful morning. And if I had the skills to shoot that shot I would have done so. But if it was a caribou I would simply get closer and hopefully catch my animal.

I could go on. But seriously, this Post Carmel was not good. I smell Troll!
 
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