Thread: Whats the longest shot youll confidently take at an animal

Originally Posted by inozz

My grand dad all ways told me not to shoot to far because it put too much strain on the barrel. He must have known a fair bit of high tech stuff like that because he told me that during ww1 when the Kaiser heard my Grand Dad was going to head off over there he got a bit worried about such a knowledgeable bloke from NZ who knew so much about metalurgy (he used to make horseshoes and gate hinges and such) was on his way that he called the whole show off. Grand dad told me if he had the old forge set up right, he could make a magnum barrel out of a bit of number 8 wire and it would be able drop a good 16 pointer further out than you could look without eye strain and not have any issues with the old strained barrel syndrome. Bless you Grand Dad and thanks for teaching me so much good stuff.

Sounds a bit like my grandfather.
He always told me to shake the barrels when shooting at a mob of ducks to spread the pattern out a bit. It must work because quite often a different duck than I thought I was aiming for falls out of the sky.