12-YEAR-OLD MAKES STUNNING 1,376-YARD SHOT ON BIG BULL ELK

[Karl Blanchard]

Bullblaster described the process very well. It just comes down to actually applying ones self to learning and applying it. You don't get good at baseball by watching baseball.  You get good at baseball by playing baseball.  Shooting in wind is no different and there's a whole lot of people that are really freaking good at it.  Unknown wind or unpredictable wind is a moot point in my experience because the shooters I know don't take shots that they can't call. If wind is janky you just don't shoot. SIMPLE AS THAT.

IF and I mean IF I had to take a 1400 yard poke at a critter, like gun to my head type deal, id send a sighter shot and then make my correction based off that. 

[callturner]

I wonder how many critters get gut shot that they never show? Always patting them selves on the back on camera, but what's the truth? Just sayin.

[h20hunter]

You can say that about any weapon, season,  or critter.

[Mtnwalker]

I feel like this thread is just the same 8 comments on continuous loop 

[Igor]

I feel like this thread is just the same 8 comments on continuous loop 

Sorta like Ground Hog Day ??

[bigdub257]

IF and I mean IF I had to take a 1400 yard poke at a critter, like gun to my head type deal, id send a sighter shot and then make my correction based off that.

 
Like maybe do your experimenting/guesstimating/dialing in on something other than the animal.

[Jonathan_S]

I wonder how many critters get gut shot that they never show? Always patting them selves on the back on camera, but what's the truth? Just sayin.

Maybe zero? Maybe more? A gut shot animal is a sucky thing but one nice thing at range is you're likely to get a second shot.

How many are gut shot at close range? Or with a bow?

How many guys put a bad hit on geese or pheasants and dogs have to chew on them?

[fishngamereaper]

IF and I mean IF I had to take a 1400 yard poke at a critter, like gun to my head type deal, id send a sighter shot and then make my correction based off that.

 
Like maybe do your experimenting/guesstimating/dialing in on something other than the animal.

Just don't take a poke at me because I'm probably all camo'd up about 100 yds from that elk because I've been working it all morning and am just getting ready to seal the deal...fyi I shoot back..

[BULLBLASTER]

IF and I mean IF I had to take a 1400 yard poke at a critter, like gun to my head type deal, id send a sighter shot and then make my correction based off that.

 
Like maybe do your experimenting/guesstimating/dialing in on something other than the animal.

Just don't take a poke at me because I'm probably all camo'd up about 100 yds from that elk because I've been working it all morning and am just getting ready to seal the deal...fyi I shoot back..

All camoed up with your orange hat on of course because its wyoming.   

[callturner]

How many guys put a bad hit on geese or pheasants and dogs have to chew on them?
[/quote] Why would the dogs have to chew on them?

[jaymark6655]

As long as where up for making certain types of hunting illegal, lets do the following:

No bows except long bows or recurves.
No mechanical broadheads.
No semi-auto shotguns. Also no shotguns allowed for big game.
No modern rifles.
No inline muzzle loaders.
Spear and knife now allowable.
No decoys for anything.
No deer stands or unnatural blinds.
No game cameras.
Oh and no dogs for any type of hunt.
That is probably pretty fair to the animal, give them a chance to evade you. Or we could stop dividing ourselves because someone doesn't hunt the way you do.

[Gentrys]

It's all situational decision making.  I have to be 100% confident before I pull the trigger.  Doesn't mean I haven't missed, because we all have at one point or another.  Things happen.  But if you're pulling the trigger in "hopes" that you connect, then I'm not thrilled with that decision being made.  Long distance shooting like that isn't my thing.  Not for it, not against it. Just hope the hunter is making a good decision based on his skill and confidence to make the ethical shot.

[Sitka_Blacktail]

I wonder how many critters get gut shot that they never show? Always patting them selves on the back on camera, but what's the truth? Just sayin.

I saw a show once where some "expert" TV star hunter was pistol hunting from a tree stand.  He shot the deer in the butt and it got away. It was very obvious where he hit it.  So they spent the rest of the day hunting for the deer with no luck. All the while, the crew kept commenting on his great shot. Next morning we find the crew still searching for the buck, and finally, they find it dead in a pond. After retrieving it, someone on the crew posed with the deer and made the comment that they were sorry the "star" couldn't be with them that day because he had had to fly to another commitment.  So the sorry SOB butt shot the deer and couldn't be bothered to stick around to help recover the animal.  I doubt the crew even bothered to keep the meat off that bloated up deer they recovered.  That was one of the last hunting shows I ever watched.

[Cougartail]

I purposely didn't open this thread for a while. Turned out to be exactly what I thought it would become.

[hunter399]

Any of you guys ever watch this old fart.
I'm not saying I totally agree with him but he does make some good points ,Alot of what he is saying kinda happens here in Washington too.Even though he lives in Wyoming.
Watch it ,get back to me.