Caribou at over 800 yards ???

[Huntinfool]

If I'd been with him he would have packed out the bou all by his lonesome. Kinda awkward when he was wearing that rifle like a tail. He'd have been sortin out camping by himself too, because in the time it took him to make his first load, I'd have packed my kit and cleared out, too. Luck, skill or gear, there's no place for that kind of stunt on my hunts.

Brown Bear your statement makes no sense at all. What difference would it make rather you shoot him from 800 yards or stalk to within 150 yards and take him at a distance that a 8 year old kid could take him at.

It's still the same drag! For you guys that think it's unreasonable, it would be! But not for a person who's dedicated enough to practice and knows what his rifle will do at long range. In short you don't have a clue as to what you're talking about!

Chuck

 

[Hota]

Huntinfool,

I think most people know the shot is doable. Like I said above, if Jeff Gordon were to drive a corvette at 185mph down I-95, is it the smartest thing to do?

If there is a chance that you miss at that range and someone gets hurt, do you want to testify at court that you missed an 800 yard shot that only 1 out of 100 people could have made?

I'll take that shot at bin laden, hell I'll take it at a clear 1500 yards with a .338, but a deer?

 

[roundball]

This is not a muzzleloading incident, it involves a .338 centerfire rifle so it may not be allowed on this forum at all...delete if that's the case.

Guy says he shot a Caribou at "over 800 yards with a .338".
Scope or not, can you even "see" a Caribou well enough at 800+ yards to hit/kill it?

Ladies and Gentlemen...if I had moderator controls, I'd delete or lock this thread...especially since I'm the one who posted the question in the first place.

But I don't have those controls, so I'd like to suggest we all let go of it now and not continue down the road it seems to be headed...nothing new is coming out...just all the same points of view being regurgitated, only with more and more forcefulness.

LET'S END THE THREAD, THANKS!

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[Stumpkiller]

In short you don't have a clue as to what you're talking about!

I don't think it's so much a question as to whether the shot was possible. Or even whether a capable marksman who knows his equipment inside and out could do it.

If this site had a feature where you could log on and kill a deer via a remote control rifle with a mouse cursor and a button click, and the meat came through Fed Ex three days later, would you do it? Why?

Is 800 yards fair chase? Two miles. 20 miles? We all set our own limits. I've got to the point where I won't use a treestand, scope, binoculars or scent lures as I feel they're unfair advantage, regular or muzzleloading season. All legal, but that's my choice. Less between me and the deer.

I also hunt where an 800 yard shot would mean I would find a gut-pile by the time I walked that far. I can see 40 yards in the more open spots, maybe 100 along roads or fields. 300 yards would be a diagonal across most farmer's fields. And how would you then know who's behind the deer 30 yards into the woods? But I understand there are spots that you can't just stand and allow game to walk up to you because there just is no cover. An 800 yard shot is so alien to my style of hunting that I can't even imagine it. I probably couldn't judge it to within 100 yards.

 

Roundball,.... :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :agree:

YMHS
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[BLAHMAN]

This is not a muzzleloading incident, it involves a .338 centerfire rifle so it may not be allowed on this forum at all...delete if that's the case.

Guy says he shot a Caribou at "over 800 yards with a .338".
Scope or not, can you even "see" a Caribou well enough at 800+ yards to hit/kill it?

Ladies and Gentlemen...if I had moderator controls, I'd delete or lock this thread...especially since I'm the one who posted the question in the first place.

But I don't have those controls, so I'd like to suggest we all let go of it now and not continue down the road it seems to be headed...nothing new is coming out...just all the same points of view being regurgitated, only with more and more forcefulness.

LET'S END THE THREAD, THANKS!

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I concurr! I also apologize to anybody I may have offended...it's been a hell of a week.

 

[Stumpkiller]

. . . if I had moderator controls, I'd delete or lock this thread...

It will have to be through mutual agreement or an Act of Claude.

No one has moderatorship over the General Category. It's an autocracy.

And, by gum, it succeeds. :redthumb:

 

[Huntinfool]

I'm sorry if I've offended anybody also fellows. But the truth is the truth. Where we were hunting was a hand picked spot as all our long range hunting spots. There was a grassy knoll for a backstop it was perfectly safe. If a deer would have showed up in an unsafe direction we wouldn't have shot!

It's like I said before we should not pick at any other hunters just because the method of his hunting is different than ours. If he's one out of 100 then so be it. I can't imagine very many people spending 7 to 8 thousand dollars to shoot long distance. But Rick has including the ballistics program which goes way out there I think to 2500 at least. Plus 2500 yards rangefinder cost 500 bucks heck the rifle scope without mounts was 1500 bucks.

Probably only 1 out of 50,000 people go to that extreme. To my way of thinking it's no more of a chance of wounding a deer than my going after them with my longbow and wood arrows. As a matter of fact I've lost 2 deer with my longbow and Rick has never lost one with "The Equalizer" he has with his Archery Research compound bow and it's state of the art!

I'll end my rave with what I said earlier let's stick together or will all surely hang seperate. And if a man has the skill level I'll stand behind him!

YMH&OS, eace:
Chuck

 

[Hota]

Hey all, nice dialog! :applause: We're all friends and we do a nice job of getting out our points of view without holding anything against anyone. Helluva bunch here!! :applause:

 

[Tahquamenon]

"I love ya man"!!!!!!!!
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