Thread: Going ‘old school’

Originally Posted by sneeze

The same argument can be applied to to any distance. You can hang a gong in tree and shoot it off hand so why shoot a deer? Why go bashing through the scrub? cant you find a deer in the open?

Theses are all stupid arguments.

A wild hail Mary pot shot is also stupid, even if it is at a plover, and has nothing to do with LR hunting.

The word "hunting" is only added for the sake of the ego of the "hunter". Shooting a deer that will never react to you because it is so far away is shooting. If you are at a "long range" the animal is going to have a hard time ever knowing you are there. You can call this hunting if you need to, but I'm not about to.

Why do you just absolutely desperately need the word "hunting" put on long range hunting? For status, otherwise you would not care on way or the other. You want people to think you have skill.

If the skill is shooting, then yes, you obviously have lots. But if the skill is "hunting" then I fail to see how you don't avoid every possible challenge hunting throws at you, but shooting from a really long way away.

You are there to enjoy it. I enjoy the challenge of hunting and I enjoy the challenge of shooting. I can shoot LR. I really genuinely feel ZERO sensation of hunting when I'm sniping things from miles away. If I'm bashing through the bush, that is very hard.

Glassing a clearing and shooting an animal miles away is very very easy. I really have no idea how you can sell it as hard. It is harvesting an animal and there is nothing wrong with that.

This "long range hunting" thing remains a bit embarrassing.