I know I'll stir up a hornet's nest but watching one of those long range hunting shows on TV and I just don't go for it. Hunting is supposed to be about getting close to critters, not sniping one at 775 yards. Not questioning that skill is involved but I just don't care for it. Maybe I'm just jealous because I don't have the eyes to shoot at specks on the horizon. Wouldn't berate those guys but I'll take mine 100 yards and in, preferably way in. What happened to 200 yards being a long shot? A guy that shoots one at 18 with a bow at Skyline ranks way higher in my book than a 775 yard at a stag in New Zealand.


“Killing tomorrow’s trophies today.”

On the distance I like to walk to my stands:
“The first 100 yards is also the last 100 yards.”