11-03-2009, 05:24 AM
Don't knock it 'till ya try it. It is a blast hitting rocks at 1000 yards not to mention a big game animal. I can understand someone asking the question. Is that even "hunting"?Well, the way I see it, yes. I still have to hike my guts out to get to a spot where some decent deer hang out and not every Tom and Dick and Harry are walking through your setup. I don't know, the outcome is the same either way; 200 yards, you spot a deer, you shoot it. 1000 yards, you spot a deer, you shoot it.
To each his own I guess. One guy might get a thrill by sneaking in close and taking a shot and another guy(me) might get a thrill by making an extremely long shot.
One also might put more of the "trophy" in the shot than the animal........ Like this year I went Spike Elk hunting. To me, no trophy in a spike Elk, so how do I make it more interesting? Shoot a spike from 800+ yards, then the trophy(to me) is now in the shot, not the animals rack. I passed on a spike at 420 yards with all the time in the world to shoot but I would have gotten zero satisfaction if I would have taken the shot and downed it. Easy shot, not a trophy rack, eh....... Just left with a bunch of work.
But this is why America is so great, we each get to choose for ourselves how or what we want to hunt and don't have to worry about pleasing everyone else in the process.
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To each his own I guess. One guy might get a thrill by sneaking in close and taking a shot and another guy(me) might get a thrill by making an extremely long shot.
One also might put more of the "trophy" in the shot than the animal........ Like this year I went Spike Elk hunting. To me, no trophy in a spike Elk, so how do I make it more interesting? Shoot a spike from 800+ yards, then the trophy(to me) is now in the shot, not the animals rack. I passed on a spike at 420 yards with all the time in the world to shoot but I would have gotten zero satisfaction if I would have taken the shot and downed it. Easy shot, not a trophy rack, eh....... Just left with a bunch of work.
But this is why America is so great, we each get to choose for ourselves how or what we want to hunt and don't have to worry about pleasing everyone else in the process.
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