Thread: An oxymoron?

Gidday All

I'm just back from a trip culling goats - my rebuilt foot's first big test in very rough, steep country and yay, it passed all tests apart from a full pack carry.

I took a very light 6.8SPC CZ527 and it went really well, I have masses of free ammo for it, and it shoots extremely well - the goats were very flighty as we were doing maintenance after professionals had mustered and culled several hundred if not a couple of thousand. Most shooting was pretty close but a few cross gully shots in the 300M class were needed.

I don't know if it's me getting older (yes with the associated padding) but I found it bloody hard to be confident about the longer shots with a light rifle in difficult terrain (very steep, rocky as only central Otago can be and a lot of scrub to get above).

So .... . Does one carry super duper bipod/shooting sticks, or a heavier rifle, or piss about till the perfect shooting platform is found and have a few (more) animals get away?

We saw heaps of Fallow (off limits on this trip) mostly at longer ranges (250-400M) and I took a few beads on them but I don't think my positional shooting would have been good enough much beyond 300M!