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<blockquote data-quote="Brandi" data-source="post: 2626929" data-attributes="member: 24446"><p>I'm torn on shots like that. I've seen a lot video of hunters taking 400, 500, 600+ yard shots and hit exactly where they intended but even if you are an amazing marksman with the best equipment and have the skill to consistently make those long rang shots on targets I still don't think it's right on an animal. Slight changes in wind at that distance could move the bullet inches or feet and you can't read that wind. I was watching some show where they showed a school that taught long distance shooting for target shooters and hunters. They used smoke grenades to show how much the wind changes in between the shooter and the target and how it's impossible to read it. The instructors said they teach students to shoot at 500-600 yards so that 200-300 yard shots are easier for them. The one instructor said "We teach these shooters to shoot at extreme distances not so they will be able to shoot animals at that distance but to show them why they shouldn't" (referencing how it's impossible to read the wind at that distance well enough to justify shooting an animal).</p><p></p><p>I don't know, but I will say the distances that I used to consider ethical for hunting are a lot longer than I used to think (for those skilled enough, not for me) so I'm not so quick to judge something unethical anymore.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brandi, post: 2626929, member: 24446"] I'm torn on shots like that. I've seen a lot video of hunters taking 400, 500, 600+ yard shots and hit exactly where they intended but even if you are an amazing marksman with the best equipment and have the skill to consistently make those long rang shots on targets I still don't think it's right on an animal. Slight changes in wind at that distance could move the bullet inches or feet and you can't read that wind. I was watching some show where they showed a school that taught long distance shooting for target shooters and hunters. They used smoke grenades to show how much the wind changes in between the shooter and the target and how it's impossible to read it. The instructors said they teach students to shoot at 500-600 yards so that 200-300 yard shots are easier for them. The one instructor said "We teach these shooters to shoot at extreme distances not so they will be able to shoot animals at that distance but to show them why they shouldn't" (referencing how it's impossible to read the wind at that distance well enough to justify shooting an animal). I don't know, but I will say the distances that I used to consider ethical for hunting are a lot longer than I used to think (for those skilled enough, not for me) so I'm not so quick to judge something unethical anymore. [/QUOTE]
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