RBHarter
West Central AR
I agree whole heart with learn to shoot first .
I grew up in a hunting environment where the 70 yd shot during the regular rifle season was a deer with a death wish or dumb luck . 200 was the normal shot 300 wasn't unusual . As such we chose rifles and cartridges up to that task . Now I live where a 264 WM is magnitudes of overkill and a 200 yd is stretching your muzzle .
Out west I could drive 12-15 miles and have an open dune backed flat or empty beach to shoot 500 yd to visible earth curve ranges . Now its 20+ to really nice ranges that fudged a little I can get 150 yd . If I hunt public lands current information lends itself to 50 yd being the extreme range of vision and a freight train bullet/cartridge combination is the tool of choice to thread a shot through a pop can hole for a head , neck ,or shoulder . Same game different different scenery and rules .
I grew up in a hunting environment where the 70 yd shot during the regular rifle season was a deer with a death wish or dumb luck . 200 was the normal shot 300 wasn't unusual . As such we chose rifles and cartridges up to that task . Now I live where a 264 WM is magnitudes of overkill and a 200 yd is stretching your muzzle .
Out west I could drive 12-15 miles and have an open dune backed flat or empty beach to shoot 500 yd to visible earth curve ranges . Now its 20+ to really nice ranges that fudged a little I can get 150 yd . If I hunt public lands current information lends itself to 50 yd being the extreme range of vision and a freight train bullet/cartridge combination is the tool of choice to thread a shot through a pop can hole for a head , neck ,or shoulder . Same game different different scenery and rules .