troy fairweather
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I try to cap out at about 500 yards on deer, I've hunt with some cartridges that have to energy to reach out more and have plenty of energy and speed. But I've always felt after 500 there to many thing to happen and chances to miss a animal or worse injure the animal.
Even if you know the drop and wind which can be hard some places I just think the small amount of time from when you pull the trigger to when the animal is hit is a bit to much after 500 yards. The animal could move quite a bit in the time the bullet needs to travel.
The longest shot I've made in a deer is about 540 from the gps, I was on a big hill on the farm I used to hunt, are shooting range was there. A week before I was shooting my 270 at the time there and hitting a large rock next to the cow pond and had the drop figured out. The wind is pretty light there because it was like a small valley. That day out hunting I'm walking up the hill from a spot I sat in the morning and see the bucks and does by the pond.
I sat there for 20minutes watching them and the weren't moving much so so I decided to shoot the bigger buck. It was grasp enough I could see the vaper trail, the buck dropped dead.
So whats the farthest you feel comfortable nshooting.
Even if you know the drop and wind which can be hard some places I just think the small amount of time from when you pull the trigger to when the animal is hit is a bit to much after 500 yards. The animal could move quite a bit in the time the bullet needs to travel.
The longest shot I've made in a deer is about 540 from the gps, I was on a big hill on the farm I used to hunt, are shooting range was there. A week before I was shooting my 270 at the time there and hitting a large rock next to the cow pond and had the drop figured out. The wind is pretty light there because it was like a small valley. That day out hunting I'm walking up the hill from a spot I sat in the morning and see the bucks and does by the pond.
I sat there for 20minutes watching them and the weren't moving much so so I decided to shoot the bigger buck. It was grasp enough I could see the vaper trail, the buck dropped dead.
So whats the farthest you feel comfortable nshooting.