Another Long Range TV Show Misses Coues Deer By 3 Feet!!!

[wind gypsy]

Distance to the target (animal) is not the problem. People making mistakes and poor choices are the problem.

I generally agree. To me, shooting long distance for most hunters is similar to shooting at a running animal with zero experience doing it to know if one has more than a lucky chance at making a good shot. We focus on the longer range stuff more now because large #s of hunters shooting longer than MPBR and actually thinking there will be high odds outcomes is a new thing. While it falls under the "people making mistakes and poor choices" umbrella, it seems like distance being a large contributing variable to lousy shots is becoming a more frequent problem. Where as making shitty shots off hand, at a moving animal, forcing it through brush, or any other long list of reasons people make lousy shots at close range are probably static or less common than they have been in the past.