Thread: longer range hunting

Learn to dial or use a ballistic reticle and a rangefinder, do things properly if you're gonna do them, you owe it to yourself, and you owe it to the animal youre hunting. Its horrifying the amount of videos you see of kiwi blokes hunting on youtube, hunting at ranges longer than they can reliably shoot, and basically just taking a punt on holdover, and then after a broken front leg and a lump of lead in the guts theyre all smiles after their third round finally manages to punch a hole thats fatal, shocking behaviour.

Shocking that they dare even putting such videos on net and bragging about it!

Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst

Learn to dial or use a ballistic reticle and a rangefinder, do things properly if you're gonna do them, you owe it to yourself, and you owe it to the animal youre hunting. Its horrifying the amount of videos you see of kiwi blokes hunting on youtube, hunting at ranges longer than they can reliably shoot, and basically just taking a punt on holdover, and then after a broken front leg and a lump of lead in the guts theyre all smiles after their third round finally manages to punch a hole thats fatal, shocking behaviour.

I've had people tell me that using a range finder and a range card is "unsporting."

superdiver - if you're at all interested in learning to shoot animals at ranges greater than the norm (<300m) check of Thomas Haugland's(@NORWAY) youtube channel. https://www.youtube.com/user/sierra645
He goes pretty full-on in terms of having the best of the best equipment. But you can do the same with lesser equipment, the principles are the important part.

Nathan foster is not bad either. Very good books to read.