1/3/2023 0 Comments Schmidt bender pm2 3-20x50![]() ![]() My clients were not paying my team to see if we could hit stuff ‘out there’ and blaze shots off. When does shooting pest species at long range become speculative target shooting on live quarry? When you squeeze the trigger wondering if you might actually hit and kill the animal? I used to do a lot of pest control for golf clubs, farms and parks. If your sport is in rangefinding, wind judging, entering data into ballistic solutions and seeing if you can hit things at long range then please, don’t take your shooting sport hunting. The purpose of the shot is to end the hunt, not to start it. I repeat, the sport is in the hunt, not the shot. You shoot targets like steel plates, rocks, plastic cartons full of water and clay pigeons to learn, play, have fun and to challenge yourself and your mates. You hunt to get close enough to be certain of your shot. There is no place in shooting sports or the English language for the oxymoronic phrase ‘long-range hunting’. I think of it as buying alleged solutions instead of getting trained. They made the point that untrained, inexperienced ‘wannabe hunters’ were using these in lieu of fieldcraft and the traditional apprenticeship into hunting. The Wall Street Journal focused on new developments in electronic, computer-controlled targeting systems created for military use being applied to hunting. Reading the article left me even more concerned about the ever-growing presence of technology in shooting sports and the market pressure on hunters to embrace this aspect of shooting.
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