Thread: Experienced Advice Appreciated For Long Range Hunting

I think you and your brother both ate a long way from being capable long range marksman. Just looking at the language you are using it tells me that you havent got a clue about external ballistics.

A lot more that dialing the scope up and shooting goes into long range shooting and hunting.

I demonstrated this over the weekend again to a guy, i had my target rifle out and we were shooting some meduim (300-500y) goats and just by dialing without taking any atmospherics etc into account i clean missed by half a meter, and this was on purpose to proof a point to a newcomer.

I shoot minimum 1500 rounds in my center fires every year, mainly in my 2 main guns and i will and have many times killed animals out to 700 however i also many times passed up shots that were only 300-400 yards and conditions werent perfect, or shooting position wasnt perfect.

I think you need to train and study a LOT more before you start shooting at animals beyond 300 yards.

Buy a 150mm gong from steeltargetsnz and use it for practice, the max range you can hit it 10 out of 10 times, that is the max you are allowed to shoot shoulder shots on deer on. You will have to learn patience and discipline.

Im happy to take you through some stuff if you are located in Hamilton.