Thread: Long-range hunting: is it sporting?

This thread is great. Problem is now I agree with everyone on some level. For me I'm thinking this, "how fouled is my barrel". Because if it's too clean and there's a bit of wind about, will my windage be .5mils or .8 at 800y? That's the difference between a nice neck shot, a shitty broken shoulder blade shot, a miss or worse. Even at an NRA range with a flag every 100y I can't anticipate that degree of windage yet in my mind so I can't ethically shoot animals at 800y (yet).
As for sport, if you want that watch the cricket. Unless it's Australia playing then it's not really sport either haha.