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

[Magnum_Willys]

Completely disagree ( with Pegasus).Where do you draw the line? 500 yards? 1000 yards?

That video has made the rounds.  Kid did his part on the trigger no doubt. Lot of cash went into that set up.

I draw the line at 1500 ft lbs for elk.    He  was at 1070 ( assuming 195s at 6000 ft) My lapua with 300 gr is double that for same shot.

[Jonathan_S]

Nope....sorry your post got in between.

Gotcha 

Yeah I think the kid must have got the "yankems" on the first shot because conditions looked perfect and I'm sure that gun shoots lights out. Long way out there for most 7mm setups but there are plenty of big bullets that can still carry a real ass whoopin' that far.

[Dan-o]

Far too much room for error to be comfortable with it.

1st shot a complete miss.....   Could just s easily be a leg, or paunch, or gut, or.......

The kid made a great shot.
If he can show that he can put 10/10 in a kill zone sized target at that range, I'd feel better about it.

[Pegasus]

Far too much room for error to be comfortable with it.

1st shot a complete miss.....   Could just s easily be a leg, or paunch, or gut, or.......

The kid made a great shot.
If he can show that he can put 10/10 in a kill zone sized target at that range, I'd feel better about it.

But he didn't...

[HUNTIN4SIX]

Great shot! But.....would have been just as impressive with a gong set up on that hill.
Too risky trying to predict if the bull is going to...umm...maybe take a step?  Oops with the over 1 second bullet travel I him in the arse and lost him?  Cool but not the most responsible thing to do.

[Dan-o]

Far too much room for error to be comfortable with it.

1st shot a complete miss.....   Could just s easily be a leg, or paunch, or gut, or.......

The kid made a great shot.
If he can show that he can put 10/10 in a kill zone sized target at that range, I'd feel better about it.

But he didn't...

But he didn't what?

[Pegasus]

Far too much room for error to be comfortable with it.

1st shot a complete miss.....   Could just s easily be a leg, or paunch, or gut, or.......

The kid made a great shot.
If he can show that he can put 10/10 in a kill zone sized target at that range, I'd feel better about it.

But he didn't...

But he didn't what?

Did not hit his target on the first shot proving he should not be shooting at that range...No 10/10. He was lucky not to maim that elk.

[fishngamereaper]

Far too much room for error to be comfortable with it.

1st shot a complete miss.....   Could just s easily be a leg, or paunch, or gut, or.......

The kid made a great shot.
If he can show that he can put 10/10 in a kill zone sized target at that range, I'd feel better about it.

But he didn't...

But he didn't what?

Put 10 out of 10 in the kill zone..
Shanked the first round...or the dial a dope was off...

Which right off the bat tells me all those guy's where beyond their one shot one kill comfort zone.. just lobbing rounds at animals.   

[Okanagan]

Long-range shooting...

...it can work.

[Pegasus]

Far too much room for error to be comfortable with it.

1st shot a complete miss.....   Could just s easily be a leg, or paunch, or gut, or.......

The kid made a great shot.
If he can show that he can put 10/10 in a kill zone sized target at that range, I'd feel better about it.

But he didn't...

But he didn't what?

Put 10 out of 10 in the kill zone..
Shanked the first round...or the dial a dope was off...

Which right off the bat tells me all those guy's where beyond their one shot one kill comfort zone.. just lobbing rounds at animals.   

You can bet that the group with him are out there now trying to beat his yardage and if they kill one you can bet they will post the edited video. They won't post the ones where they maim the animal.

[fishngamereaper]

Good on the kid for getting into long range shooting at a young age ... that's impressive for a 12 yoa...not knocking that aspect of it.
Long range hunting is a different animal. Proof by the video where it appears he missed gut shooting the elk by a couple inches.

Speaking from experience with tons of practice beyond a grand I would never personally use that skill set to harvest a animal. To many variables to consider and to many things can go wrong..and as hunter's we owe the game we pursue clean and ethical kill shot's.  Especially when it's going to take you an hour or two to hike to where the animal is at....

[Dan-o]

Far too much room for error to be comfortable with it.

1st shot a complete miss.....   Could just s easily be a leg, or paunch, or gut, or.......

The kid made a great shot.
If he can show that he can put 10/10 in a kill zone sized target at that range, I'd feel better about it.

But he didn't...

But he didn't what?

Put 10 out of 10 in the kill zone..
Shanked the first round...or the dial a dope was off...

Which right off the bat tells me all those guy's where beyond their one shot one kill comfort zone.. just lobbing rounds at animals.   

You can bet that the group with him are out there now trying to beat his yardage and if they kill one you can bet they will post the edited video. They won't post the ones where they maim the animal.

I agree.

[10thmountainarcher]

What I don’t like is the video and article is about a kid shooting an elk at 1300+ yards or whatever and then they mention the 6.5 CM as a long range round. If you’re talking shooting targets at 1k then ok, but what you have is a hunting video/write up. To me that is them suggesting the creedmoor is acceptable for hunting at 1k plus yards.

[Karl Blanchard]

Man didn't realize we had so many snipers on this forum who have never missed a shot. And if you've ever missed than apparently you were shooting beyond your capabilities.  Ive personally been in the woods a lot and y'all are full of crap if you claim you don't miss   I'm in no way supporting shooting animals that far, but to chastise this kid for missing his first shot has apparently never been hunting with a kid or even hunting at all because I've seen the cartwheeling legs, limps, dangling jaws, etc that tell stuff happens at a lot closer distances. Hell guys miss moose clean inside 100 yards.  Ill never understand this notion that bad things only happen at longer ranges. The ability to miss or wound is not exclusive to distance. By what I saw in that video and what I see at my local range id trust that kid at 800 yards over most guys at 100-200 yards

Take the range out of the equation and what I saw was a 12 year old kid who setup fast, got into a solid shooting position, missed, stayed on target, made a correction and got his second shot off accurately. Very impressive for such a young shooter.

Once again, I AM NOT condoning shooting anything but targets at that kind of distance but I feel that those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones

[Karl Blanchard]

What I don’t like is the video and article is about a kid shooting an elk at 1300+ yards or whatever and then they mention the 6.5 CM as a long range round. If you’re talking shooting targets at 1k then ok, but what you have is a hunting video/write up. To me that is them suggesting the creedmoor is acceptable for hunting at 1k plus yards.

I noticed that too. Im thinking the author isn't very well versed in rifle calibers