Thread: Shooting at Medium Range

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

its older than us both bud...and still VERY RELEVANT........back before rangefinders were common...hell you DIDNT see them at all...and as for dialing up...yeah nah...twiddlin n fiddlin was done to sight in and not touched AT ALL otherwise..... if you read "the sharpshooter" arguably the bible of accurate hunting 30 years ago...one of the bits that stuck out for me was line...wait till deer is heading uphill away from you,giving big dorsal strip to aim at and from top of head down to hips ..... a shot ON LINE had big drop and still effective....
interesting Matt used the 22HP Savage for a time and had high praise for it.....when used with caution.....bit like,well actually VERY LIKE the thread on 223 on deer.
the more time goes by the more I come to realise everything has been tried before in some form and the old rules still hold true.

Thanks Micky,
I was looking for that chart on the rule of three plus have had my copy of "The Sharp Shooter" out as well. Although the kit some of us use changes the basic underlying techniques do not. Often they are just repackaged and hyped as the new thing. I would bet that some on the Forum don't realise that fixed power scopes are still available.
Regards Grandpamac.