Rich,
apology accepted and thank you Sir...
Please forgive my ignorance but what is a "mall ninja"?
Let me try to offer how I go about setting up for shooting deer at long-range -
I have 3 wide open fields where I "shoot" deer. These fields are approximantly 400 yards wide and in excess of 1,300 yards long. At the 1-yard line, so to speak, we have a concrete bench set up that we shoot from. It is located at mid point at the end of each field, meaning 3 different fields and 3 different shooting benches...
Starting at 600 yards, measured from the shooting bench, on each side of the field are placed 10 ft. tall posts with 6 inch wide ribbons attached to each one that is at least 8 ft. long. 600 yards has a green flag, 650 yards has a white flag, 700 yards has a red flag, 750 yards has a pink flag, 800 yards and so on and so on...
Our rifles are set to hit point of impact at 600 yards with a drop table being made in 50 yard increments out to the length of each field. the scope is set for each exact yardage tith no guess and no hold over...
Now say that a deer walks out on either side of the field and is closest to a "pink flag". Our chart shows that the pink flag is exactly 750 yards away. We then go to our ballistics chart for the gun that we are shooting, dial the scope in to exactly 750 yards, put the cross hairs on the top point of the shoulder and very gently squeeze the 6 ounce trigger. And it is basically that plain and simple...
Our rifles, like the green stocked one on the first page weighs 29 pounds. Shooting from a concrete bench, with a gun of this weight, with a trigger pull of 6 ounces, it is quite easy to make shots at extreme ranges. The flags on the poles also make good wind flags and as such, if there is any wind blowing, we can correct and allow for that as well...
Like I said before, it took us literally thousands of rounds of practice ammo and shooting at long range targets before we ever thought about shooting at a game animal. Counting myself, there are 7 of us that have been shooting deer this way for the past 9 years. And in all this time, I am proud to say that we have never lost a deer, wounded a deer or had to shoot a deer twice. All shots have been 1-shot kills. If they don't go down within a few steps, it is very rare. Also, no deer has ever made it out of the field after being shot and we all take great pride in our shooting record...
I know I skipped a lot of stuff but, I hope you get the general idea of how we go about our long range shooting for deer. Yes, we do hunt in the woods and at that time, we use nothing but scoped revolvers and love every minute of it. These guns are fully customized as well....