Why the yardage exaggeration

Wounding really honks me off. Missing even more so. I take pride in shooting well.....and shooting well on game. Yup....screwed up before and those still p*ss me off. Twice i shot lumber.....once my trigger finger was replaced at the last nanosecond by a crowbar. NEVER flinched on a deer before ....or since.....but by golly it happened. I killed that deer w a followup. Neither easy shots. But there was no excuse for that massive error. Even after listening to that buck chase does for half an hour.....only seeing flashes of him. Pops up in a spot on edge of safe shootin. Kill him there cause if he walks any more hes off limits. Standing on tip toes...to clear branch. 25 ft up in stand.....at the last bit i just lost focus. Raging mad as I knew what i did when it happened ...the 870 in recoil cycled and the next dropped him. 50 yards broadside......clean miss. Almost laughable twenty yrs later. Almost

Shooting is shooting. No time for getting wound up if the target has fur. Put your projectile on the X. I dont get buck fever. Too busy working on the shot. AFTER the deer is hit and down......have been known to have a bad case of jimmy leg. Which can make climbing out of a stand pretty spooky.

Do think w less access.....less time......getting older......hunting has more emotion to it. Always strong but different now. Maybe more serious and less fun.....maybe that is why folks embelish tales? I dunno.

Hell nothing is as much fun as it used to be. Everything is a hassle and costs more too. Maybe 500 yard deer taste better and justify the expense.

Holiday weekend...who was at the club? Me and my dad. Just like the old days at prev club. The superbambislayer guys were not there. Hot...buggy......rainy...,pffffft....they only need shoot the weekend before the opener.

I would rather lie about getting close and using terrific hunting skills.

I dont have those but hunt near a superfund site

I have never shot any game over 100 yards.
Lie!
Learned my lesson many years ago shooting at a whitetail. A long ways away........across a clear-cut close to the BWCA. Tracked it into the "wilderness" until it crossed a river that I could not.
Still haunts me.

All game that I have taken has been less than 100 yards, usually 60 to 80 yards, sometimes closer.

Choctaw said:

I would rather lie about getting close and using terrific hunting skills.

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I thought for awhile that I was the most stealthiest, quiet still hunter in northern Minnesota...........
until I got hearing aids!

I have a friend who swore his dad was the best shot there was and he regularly killed deer at 500 to 600 yrs. With his custom 300 weatherby back in the day. All of this was done with a 3x9 scope set at 100 yds. No hold over mark's, scope adjustment, etc. "Just aim right at them, the big weatherby does the trick!" He inherited the rifle a couple years ago and he came shoot with me. We zeroed at 100 and the the rifle is definitely a shooter, puts them all in the same hole at 100. I set up a target at 550 yds and let him shoot. He was baffled on what gravity was doing to the mighty 300 wby!!!! I'm not taking anything away from the gun , or his dad , I've shot with him growing up and can tell you the man could shoot! I watched him shoot aspirins flicked into the air with a 10/22!!! But the distances on some the shots were exaggerated, and I proved it to him. Gravity is constant, and nothing on this earth is immune to it. LOL.

Bayourambler said:

I have a friend who swore his dad was the best shot there was and he regularly killed deer at 500 to 600 yrs. With his custom 300 weatherby back in the day. All of this was done with a 3x9 scope set at 100 yds. No hold over mark's, scope adjustment, etc. "Just aim right at them, the big weatherby does the trick!" He inherited the rifle a couple years ago and he came shoot with me. We zeroed at 100 and the the rifle is definitely a shooter, puts them all in the same hole at 100. I set up a target at 550 yds and let him shoot. He was baffled on what gravity was doing to the mighty 300 wby!!!! I'm not taking anything away from the gun , or his dad , I've shot with him growing up and can tell you the man could shoot! I watched him shoot aspirins flicked into the air with a 10/22!!! But the distances on some the shots were exaggerated, and I proved it to him. Gravity is constant, and nothing on this earth is immune to it. LOL.

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Working behind the gun counter you hear a lot of magnumitis.

Guys with a .30-06 want a .300 Win Mag because it shoots so much flatter. Yeah, about an inch at 300 yards, this on a 2-3 MOA rifle.

I've had one-shot kills at 450 and at 350. That's two out of some 50 tagged bucks. All the rest were killed inside of 200 yards. The last buck I killed was about 20 to 25 yards away. Felt guilty for using a rifle instead of a handgun.

DustyGmt said:

wish I could tell an exaggerated distance tale. I'm likely the only guy here who has hunted nearly every year since I was a kid and never shot a deer

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If you wanna kill deer, DON’t go into where they hide/stay. Unless there is heavy snow or heavy rain, the deer will see or hear you long before you see them.

I killed a big nine point last fall at about 60 yards in a hayfield. We sit well outside the bedding area. Killed a better one two years ago

If you walk thru it, all you’ll likely do is spook the deer long before you see them

Nice one Red.

Was still hunting and saw this one. Got to open oak flat...couldnt get closer. Popped at 75. If i can do it anybody can


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This a heavy pressure close to town spot. Problems w poachers too. Went 5 yrs and no bucks seen

Now we do. And sometimes good ones. What changed? Two things. We stay out until Nov. And the place next door was sold. Still has somebody hunting it. But they not like the prev guys.....that dumped every scent and blew every call starting at the opening of bow. Its a small thicket. We let others hunt around us and let the deer think it a refuge. We stay out til almost rut

Fwiw i zeroed that .35 rem TC carbine for dead on at 75. Did same for my other two following woods rifles.

Hooda Thunkit said:

I used to carry a .30-06 on deer hunts here in Okieland.

After several years, it occurred to me that the longest shot I ever took was ~80yds, and that was a side-hammer muzzle-loader. I did kill that doe, double lung and took off the top of the heart.

I no longer even carry a rifle during during rifle season.I now use a .44 Mag Ruger SBH. I limit shots to under 75 yds, and don't feel handicapped.

And I certainly don't miss the extra weight of the rifle.

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What type of gloves do you like?

Dibbs said:

What type of gloves do you like?

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Gloves ? You mean shooting gloves, to protect my hand ?

I don't use any. I'm shooting a Bisley SBH Hunter. I've never felt the need for a glove.
However, I'm not shooting Warp 9 loads either. 250-ish grain lead at ~1150fps seems adequate..

I like the reg Dragoon grip of the SuperBlackhawk. And I shoot all my stuff full throttle. No gloves.

Note: i dont shoot over 255gr bullets and usually its 180s or 200s. Think the 240 a good all arounder.

Like wood just fine. No rubber

This reminds me of the Running Deer Shoot I participated in several years ago in Bowdoinham. I got there just about lunchtime and they took time out for guys to grab a burger, etc. The guy running the event was standing there, so I asked him about where to aim on the target. He told me for each of the three shots. I thanked him and signed-up.

After lunch, the guys finished-up the sign-up process and the first shooter had a Remington Pump '06. They let the deer go and he got a shot off, then lowered the rifle to pump the action. He only got one more shot off! The next guy, the first guy's buddy, had a Rem 742 semi-auto '06. He jammed a magazine in the rifle and yelled "GO". He tried to shoot, but had forgotten to close the action, so it was a very quiet run. There were a few others, then it was my turn, with my trusty bolt-action, Rem 700. I managed to work the bolt well for each shot and scores were a couple of 10s and a 9, so I won. I won another run later, so won a bunch of frozen steaks for the effort.

At the range last week, a bud I know was upset about the damage caused by a group of shooters to his electronic target sensors. Bud was shooting at two hundred yards and he paid over $500 for a system that registers the shot location through sound sensors on the target. The main CPU is also on the target. There was a group of shooters, also on the 200 yard range, and they put up targets at 50, 100, 150 yards, and 200 yards. I don't know if bud was on the high end and if they were on the low end of the range, but rest assured, even if on an adjacent firing point, their targets were ten feet to the side of his. Even ten feet away they managed to put a bullet through the wireless antenna on his target.It is more likely they were shooting at targets a minimum of forty to fifty feet to the side of his target.

And yet, the shooting community gives advice to these types as if they can make 600, 800, 1000 yard shots?

At 62 and hunted since 12 I've only shot 4 times at 300-350 yards. One 06 and three 270. Only missed one. The rest 10-just inside 100 yards. Missed one at 20 yards due to unforeseen twig. 300 plus takes a lot more shot planing. With wind, against wind, cross wind and angle. Only took the long shots because I had time to figure it and still missed one. It was my dads 270. When I got home I checked out the rifle and told him. He said, oh yeah I s hould have mentioned it hits left after 200. Of course it did. It had a base with windage adjustment. The base was all the way right and the windage on the scope was right at bottomed out left. I recentered it, bored it and shot it in +1.5" at 100 yards. Years later that 300+ with the calculations hit on the money. Cockeyed scope don't work.