875 yard .308 Elk kill

[Rainier10]

The farthest I have ever tried to shoot was 400 yards and by the way I missed at 400 I could easily see myself missing that bad at 875.  I am not planning on trying a 400 yard shot ever again without some serious bench time first let alone an 875 yard shot.

[swanny]

While the shot was impressive and something I certainly could not do.

What concerns me is him shooting across a canyon and over a ridgeline to the next canyon. Could you image if you were a hunter on that ridgeline and a shot from 500+yds rings over your head to the canyon wall you are watching! 

[JLS]

What concerns me is him shooting across a canyon and over a ridgeline to the next canyon. Could you image if you were a hunter on that ridgeline and a shot from 500+yds rings over your head to the canyon wall you are watching! 

Yes, and it wouldn't concern me a bit.

What concerns me is why they didn't cross the bottom and shoot from the closer ridge.

I guess it wouldn't be as cool.

[JimmyHoffa]

The more times I come back to this thread the more I think he was aiming for the big cow above the calf.  I think they edited the audio to line up with the final outcome post mortem.

Just my 

That does seem to make the most sense.

I was thinking they got the cow they wanted.  Maybe he was shooting for the neck, but I'd more easily believe aim was for the heart and hit was neck.  I don't know what elevation they sight in and practice at, but that looked like it could be the reasonable vertical error.  And no mention of direction being shot to compensate for Coriolis or spin drift. 

[Bob33]

The more times I come back to this thread the more I think he was aiming for the big cow above the calf.  I think they edited the audio to line up with the final outcome post mortem.

Just my 

That does seem to make the most sense.

I was thinking they got the cow they wanted.  Maybe he was shooting for the neck, but I'd more easily believe aim was for the heart and hit was neck.  I don't know what elevation they sight in and practice at, but that looked like it could be the reasonable vertical error.  And no mention of direction being shot to compensate for Coriolis or spin drift.

Spin drift at that range might be 6" right and coriolis much less.

Here's an interesting article on them, for those interested:

https://loadoutroom.com/13415/reaper-tips-spin-drift-coriolis-effect/

[JJB11B]

What concerns me is him shooting across a canyon and over a ridgeline to the next canyon. Could you image if you were a hunter on that ridgeline and a shot from 500+yds rings over your head to the canyon wall you are watching! 

Yes, and it wouldn't concern me a bit.

at 875 yards that bullet would pass 20 feet over your head. that's a long ways

[jackelope]

What concerns me is him shooting across a canyon and over a ridgeline to the next canyon. Could you image if you were a hunter on that ridgeline and a shot from 500+yds rings over your head to the canyon wall you are watching! 

Yes, and it wouldn't concern me a bit.

at 875 yards that bullet would pass 20 feet over your head. that's a long ways

I'd be pissed off if someone was shooting over my head. Don't care if it was 2' or 20'.

[JJB11B]

What concerns me is him shooting across a canyon and over a ridgeline to the next canyon. Could you image if you were a hunter on that ridgeline and a shot from 500+yds rings over your head to the canyon wall you are watching! 

Yes, and it wouldn't concern me a bit.

at 875 yards that bullet would pass 20 feet over your head. that's a long ways

I'd be pissed off if someone was shooting over my head. Don't care if it was 2' or 20'.

so would I but that's beside the point

[Jonathan_S]

875 yards on an elk isn't even noteworthy for anybody who has a decent setup. 2 MOA for wind is a fairly big adjustment though.

I like the "good old days" argument. Like taking risky shots is a new thing.

[mountainman]

What concerns me is him shooting across a canyon and over a ridgeline to the next canyon. Could you image if you were a hunter on that ridgeline and a shot from 500+yds rings over your head to the canyon wall you are watching! 

Yes, and it wouldn't concern me a bit.

at 875 yards that bullet would pass 20 feet over your head. that's a long ways

ditto that. And the time it took to set up the shot (which was not that great of a shot) and they never noticed the elk right below them? Curious as to motives for the long shot...

I'd be pissed off if someone was shooting over my head. Don't care if it was 2' or 20'.

[Stein]

One shot kill. Looked like a rock steady rest. Know thy weapon.  Very cool.

One shot shown in the video, I'll agree with that.


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[Jonathan_S]

How many other times do you think he had fired into that feeding herd?

[Rainier10]

  It's back alive.

[dontgetcrabs]

One shot clean kill, good job to the hunter.   

[Buzz2401]

I believe the shot was lucky as it appeared to be quite aways off where you would expect him to be aiming.  I would also think that the expansion of nearly any bullet he could be using at that distance would be nearly zero.  The animal was ethically harvested but I feel the animals we kill deserve a little more respect.  This is making a broad assumption of a small sample of people I have ran into and understand it is flawed to group everyone together, but I find that folks that take long shots like that have very little remorse for losing game animals and just right it off because there are lots of animals and its 'no big deal".