what was your Longest kill shot
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tylerjwitty
CGN frequent flyer
- Location
- Northern Ontario
who cares?? a wolf shows much less considerations. atleast we don't rip its quarters off while its alive. i don't see why we need to be much better. too much liberal thinking. sure we don't live in the bush but we hunt for meat let us not forget this.
Jordan Smith
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
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- Calgary, AB
You're right. We should all just revert to a society of raw, animal behavior
A wolf may rip its quarry's hind quarters up, but it's over in a few minutes, or at most an hour or two. Put an expanding bullet through the guts of a BG animal and it could suffer for days or even weeks before death.The one thing that sets us apart from the animals is our capacity to feel compassion and honour. We can still fill our freezers with meat while doing so ethically. Not to mention that you'll find that people who do long-range hunting ethically are usually much more successful because they are well prepared to take advantage of a situation, rather than just blasting off without having spent the time and money to develop the skills necessary to ensure a kill shot.
The real question is how many did you wound at long range? I spent some time in the forces and the best talk percentage of kill shots at range. No one learned to connect with killing shots on wild game at 500 meters in the field first shot and every shot from the first time out. Our armed forces spend a fortune to train the very best riflemen in how to do that with a partner.
Mine is funny was hunting goophers with the 223, saw a crow on fence post so far away, it was quiet on the gopher departement ( shot them all ) so decided to take a wack at that crow had to dope my shot by at least 24 inchs shot, wait like 2 seconds and it went down now i had to measure that, i walked to the crow 710 paces plus or minus, i guess it was a 700 yards shot, surely was very luky but it is a very very long shot. Still make me happy to remenicence that event... JP.
- Location
- Ottawa Ontario
I've done a pile of shooting over the years, in uniform and after and on many a real 1000 yard range as well. Range estimation to target is an art that is cultivated by training and experience, unless you spend the time to learn it and then use it continually the skill erodes quickly. Few of us really do it very well. I've seen a hell of a lot of 300 yd shots that when measured by the laser range finder were only a mere 125 yds in reality. Caveat emptoir... I suspect that some of those long range snipers are smokin' the good stuff....
99% of the time those 300 yard shots are actually 300 feet.
Mine was 430 yards. Measured with a handheld GPS, I had a good signal so the error was about +/- 10 yards at each end so +/- 20 yards in total. I'll probably go back with a rangefinder and laser it to confirm.
Range estimations are useless unless they are measured by a rangefinder or GPS or some other instrument. No, pacing does not count. Neither does "oh I held over bout two feet or so."
Mine was 3 yrs ago....nice wide 10 pt...following a doe about 5 minutes behind her....352 yards... ranged yards. My buddy said "how in da F** did you even see him from here...I can't even see your tree stand" 300WSM 180 gr/handload
300WSM 180 gr/handloadOff hand I shot through the leg of a moose my buddy wounded at 425 long paces. I did that with a 7x57 with 175 grain RN at about 2300 fps. It did not kill it, as it was already heart shot, but it did anchor it, so it would die close to the road. It was an accident, as I had the cross hairs about a foot over its back. I was young and did not yet know that it was a once in a lifetime shot.
RememberTheSomme
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
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- Nova Scotia
Frozen Water jug at 1.1 km according to my Toyota 4X4 odometer, with actual distance corrected because of hill to perhaps 700 meters.
.270 Winchester featherweight, all Winter Camo and me, shooting my coyote load of 100 gr Hornady Spire points@3360, 2x-7X tasco World Class . Lots and lots of spotting rounds fired prone in the midle of the Road on my sling,with one glorious hit! Drop calculation was anyones guess. It was zeroed for 2500yds. If a Coyote was the target ,all he had to do to stay alive, was hold still and not stray into my shed sized group. Later years with the internet and all the great online long range calculators I found my drop was about -114 inches!!
Winter Coyote hunting is the only time I can really stretch my Rifles legs and see my Long Range shortcomings. Miles of Deserted woods roads and hundreds of meters of clear cut choppings.Love it!
.270 Winchester featherweight, all Winter Camo and me, shooting my coyote load of 100 gr Hornady Spire points@3360, 2x-7X tasco World Class . Lots and lots of spotting rounds fired prone in the midle of the Road on my sling
,with one glorious hit! Drop calculation was anyones guess. It was zeroed for 2500yds. If a Coyote was the target ,all he had to do to stay alive, was hold still and not stray into my shed sized group. Later years with the internet and all the great online long range calculators I found my drop was about -114 inches!!Winter Coyote hunting is the only time I can really stretch my Rifles legs and see my Long Range shortcomings. Miles of Deserted woods roads and hundreds of meters of clear cut choppings.Love it!
