Before rangefinders it was the eyeometer, it was ether a clean miss or a solid hit and pulled off some amazing shots with less than a hand full shots on wounded deer not recovered. Used paper Topo Maps then on GPS’s, Reticle hash marks for ranging isn’t reliable enough. Now running a 300 blackout using subs I won’t guess past 80m.
Going off subject here a bit,
Even with the advancement of rangefinders there’s a lot a of wounded animals being shot and not recover, New hunters still need basic marksmanship and animal anatomy/physiology. It’s easy for the newbie to get a rangefinder, Ballistic app and think he can shoot long range without putting in the range time and validation of ammo. Not knocking the TV shows and YouTube but they make it look too easy, there need to do a show on the theory behind the shot, accurate validated ammo, advanced ballistic, terminal ballistics for desired animals.
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