http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ssh8Vsbvn2A

This is hunting? :confused:

I don't believe that is hunting. I consider that shooting, and because it is shooting an animal, not very sportsmanlike.

So you sit and wait for a Deer to come by at close range and you shoot it. They waited for one to come by at long range and they shot it... Seems the only difference was the distance.........
Amazing.........

it's a good thing we're not on the metric system, or it would have been too far to shoot!

No flames to anyone. But shooting a bedded animal or a duck on the water just never seemed right to me.

I was always under the impression that taking an undisturbed animal was the objective thus making a clean kill and not wounding them.

I don't think shooting any bird on the ground (well, except for turkeys) is good either.

I believe that the difference between shooting a deer 50 yards away and shooting an antelope 1011 yards away is immense, and it goes beyond distance. At that distance there are many variables that are part of hunting that you wouldn't need to worry about. I can't say that I really know how sensitive antelopes are, but I would imagine at that distance you wouldn't need to worry much about the wind, your scent, camouflaging, or anything like that. However, I could be wrong.

I've never hunted deer over bait of any sort, and I don't think it's sporting to shoot a bird on the ground (we call it groundswatting... this excludes turkeys). The antelope was simply sitting there and presented a pretty easy shot. At least he dropped it on the spot. When I've been hunting we've passed up alot of shots that we probably wouldn't have been able to make. That being said, I've taken a deer that was at full sprint out of a slough but I only squeezed the trigger because I knew that I could get a shot that would take it down cleanly. Had it not been quartering away perfectly or at a close enough range, I wouldn't have thought of shooting at it. The most important part of a clean kill is shot placement.

I think if people want to shoot at 1000+ yards they sure can. I would love to do some of it sometime, just not at wild game. Until I can get behind an accurate centerfire doing some long-range target shooting, me and my friends shoot golf balls etc. with .22's at 100 yards.

I was always under the impression that taking an undisturbed animal was the objective thus making a clean kill and not wounding them.

I wonder how many he wounded to finally get that shot to connect for a good film. It was a good shot though...I guess.

Why do you assume that he wounded any?

Look at some of the other YouTube videos... a few of the deer shot at long range run pretty well

So you sit and wait for a Deer to come by at close range and you shoot it. They waited for one to come by at long range and they shot it... Seems the only difference was the distance.........
Amazing.........

Well....lets see where to start. Please list all the hunting skills the guy in the video displayed. Oh ya, and he didn't sit and wait for one to come by. Didn't you notice the truck in the background. Pretty sure they were "road hunting".

Jim

You probable will not like this video either

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCyTRzL5AAQ

Why do you assume that he wounded any?

Probably shouldn't assume that but I just wonder if he could have. I have some experience with 1000 yard shooting and for me I believe he would have had to have a good known zero for conditions he had at the time. So even if he did a lot of long range shooting at 1000 + yds on paper then went out to find a shot at the distance he knew he could connect he would have been pretty satisfied if he had success with his first and only shot. Of course you could hear this to be true in their voices when the shot connected. If he was spined or hit similarly to just fall over at the angle that bullet is coming down then it was quite an incredible shot!!! Sure won't take that from him!!! If I were in his shoes my fingers would have been crossed even if I had full confidence in my equipment and abilities until I was sure it was over. It takes a long time for that bullet to get down there and I have watched various cartridges go down range from 308 velocities to heavy magnums. I just know that if it was not just perfect and a second shot was needed he would again have to try another great shot. My hat is off too him for the shot going well. Sporting or not.

Well....lets see where to start. Please list all the hunting skills the guy in the video displayed. Oh ya, and he didn't sit and wait for one to come by. Didn't you notice the truck in the background. Pretty sure they were "road hunting".

Jim



HUNTING to search for, seek to find...
I think that he accomplished that. He was also proficient enough to pull off the shot. What's not to like?

I simply do not consider that a fit definition for hunting. This argument could go on forever. I am done.

I certainly think we've had enough fun with this topic. Locked.