Thread: Experienced Advice Appreciated For Long Range Hunting

I will be blunt.

The fact either of you are even considering this with no experience or validation shows a total lack of common hunting ethics and respect for the animal.

Go shoot some steel and leave the animals alone.


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You wont be able to just jump out to a long shot like that an expect to make it. You would be far better to split the weekend into two different activities.

Get there early as your brother suggested and be prepared to start stalking. Dawn and Dusk go hunting. Get to within a range that you know you are capable of making the shot and if you have no success then you gave it your best attempt. Within the 200 yards you mentioned would be where I would suggest.

During the middle of the day when hunting is not ideal, pop over to the neighbouring block and shoot at ranges working you r way out to the longer ranges. Take plenty of ammo for this and take your time. Work out beforehand what your drop should be at 300, 400,500,and maybe 600 metres / yards (depending on what unit you are working with?) then compare your results of what you got with what you expected.

I did this with one of my rifles and while the calculator stated I should have around 28 inches drop at 200 it was closer to 36. In my case it was a 215gr round nose projectile .303 doing 2094fps at muzzle zero'ed 1" high at 100.....not a fast round or a long range round.But accurate. I got a 45mm group at 300 but all three would have been a miss as far as shot placement goes if it had been an animal. It is set up as a compact not quite bush gun, and I wanted to know if I was capable of making a longer shot if one presented.

You will also need to know that the calibre you are using is suitable for long range as well.

Originally Posted by R93

I will be blunt.

The fact either of you are even considering this with no experience or validation shows a total lack of common hunting ethics and respect for the animal.

Go shoot some steel and leave the animals alone.


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I might have put you fella's slightly wrong. I have 'very successfully' shot deer out to 500m before, what I'm saying is, I'm not a bench rest shooter (don't shoot thousands of $$$ of ammo off at 1000 yards at the range each month) and I haven't got a ten year history of it!

Originally Posted by Remington 5R .300 Win Mag

I might have put you fella's slightly wrong. I have 'very successfully' shot deer out to 500m before, what I'm saying is, I'm not a bench rest shooter (don't shoot thousands of $$$ of ammo off at 1000 yards at the range each month) and I haven't got a ten year history of it!

Then you should be able to answer your own questions.

500 yards in fair conditions is not really a hard shot if you know your gear and abilities.

Beyond 500 is where no matter how good you think you are, you are not going to be able to get it right every time on an animal which doesn't stand still like steel.

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Originally Posted by R93

Then you should be able to answer your own questions.

500 yards in fair conditions is not really a hard shot if you know your gear and abilities.

Beyond 500 is where no matter how good you think you are, you are not going to be able to get it right every time on an animal which doesn't stand still like steel.

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Yeah, yeah, look, to be honest with you I 'can' answer mine own questions, and that is, we should be checking our POI at the ranges we intend shooting at 'FIRST', 'before' we shoot at the animals at that range but, for the benefit of my brother, who I know reads this forum often, and will be reading this post, I was kind of wanting 'YOU' to be telling 'him' that!

The biggest issue even once you've calibrated and confirmed will likely be your wind call.
Crunch the numbers and look at the difference a few mph will make. Then work out the measurement of the hit between the chest and ass

If you have some experience like that just have a go at a target. If you can consistently hit a smaller target then go for a hunt.

You have to think of the animal if you can't get a clean shot at it.

With long range what about the retrieve?

If your shot is on dark and you wound how long are you going to leave it out there?

Originally Posted by R93

I will be blunt.

The fact either of you are even considering this with no experience or validation shows a total lack of common hunting ethics and respect for the animal.

Go shoot some steel and leave the animals alone.


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What he said!

Originally Posted by R93

I will be blunt.

The fact either of you are even considering this with no experience or validation shows a total lack of common hunting ethics and respect for the animal.

Go shoot some steel and leave the animals alone.


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Animals are cruel to each other in their cycle of survival. Predator and predated. Hunter and hunted. That's their natural way of things.

But what sets us apart in our own cycle with nature is an element that only man alone can bring. And that is respect for our quarry.

Originally Posted by R93

I will be blunt.

The fact either of you are even considering this with no experience or validation shows a total lack of common hunting ethics and respect for the animal.

Go shoot some steel and leave the animals alone.


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Reading the rest of this thread Id say you were'nt blunt enough.