If you could change one regulation in your state

[Howboutthemdawgs]

Yeah it takes a lot of skil and practice to shoot long range but at 500 or more yards is it really hunting anymore? Shot load of skill in shooting yes but what hunting skills?

Absolutely not. It’s shooting. Zero concern for scent or concealment or movement, etc. You know, all the things hunters actually have to concern themselves with.

 

[Howboutthemdawgs]

I may have posted this before . Minnesota

Move the gun season back to November 18 at earliest …. (1) buck maximum, no exceptions. Minnesota is a legit big buck state again !

It would also improve the buck to for ratio!

I agree. Minnesota could be amazing at least from half the state south. Just as good as Iowa and western Wisconsin

 

[Bill]

500 yards in the right hands is as much a chip shot as 200 to some. When I hunted out west I hand measured powder for every round I hand loaded. Bullets seated exactly the same on the press so they were seated tight in the chamber when you closed the bolt with no head space. Spent a lot of time at the range shooting through a chronograph with a notebook computer running ballistics. I doubt a deer 100 yards away has any more idea it's being hunted than one at 500.

 

[bwoods11]

I agree. Minnesota could be amazing at least from half the state south. Just as good as Iowa and western Wisconsin

These are just friends, family and guys I know within hour of my house……

 

[Howboutthemdawgs]

lol. I rest my case your honor

 

[Wind Gypsy]

I was talking with a guy the other day who was bragging that he hit a steel target "...at about a thousand yards..." with his 22-250. I asked him what distance his gun was zeroed at and he said 100 yards. I've longed my entire life to be that good........

Every top level precision rifle competitor out there zeros at 100 yards and many of the competitions go well past 1000 yards. You dial for elevation corrections.

But yes, most hunters suck at shooting, regardless of weapon. I volunteer at public rifle sight in days at my gun club most years and it’s a pretty sad ordeal seeing how poor most hunters and their gear are at hitting a target.

 

[Native Hunter]

Every top level precision rifle competitor out there zeros at 100 yards and many of the competitions go well past 1000 yards. You dial for elevation corrections.

But yes, most hunters suck at shooting, regardless of weapon. I volunteer at public rifle sight in days at my gun club most years and it’s a pretty sad ordeal seeing how poor most hunters and their gear are at hitting a target.

Yes, I realize that, but my point is that he didn't have the equipment to shoot at long distances and had no training in it. He wasn’t even sure the distance was 1,000 yards. Note that he said “at about a 1,000 yards.” As you and I both know, at that distance just misjudging the distance a tad will result in a miss.

I didn't include this part of the story, but I had just watched him shoot at a target 250 yards away and miss a spot by 8 inches.

I'm all for long range shooting for someone who is capable, prepared and equipped to do it. My problem is people who take shots they aren't capable of making and end up wounding game. That also goes for a bow or crossbow.

 

[roymunson]

Lemme use my necked cartridges in Ohio. You can even put a max caliber on it, I don't care.

I wanna kill deer w/ my 243 and 25 caliber. Instead, I have a low energy 350 legend, a mid range 400 legend, or get my shoulder replaced shooting the 444.

A 223 or 243 in the hands of one of my youth hunters would be cool. Not many spots to shoot over 150 yards in the Buckeye anyways. But I have a couple spots.