Form struck someone’s nerve

[wyo]

I have taken one for Team RS and have now wasted an hour and a half of my life that i will not get back.
Here is a rough paraphrasing of the entire thing.

"I used to be the go to expert for the Exo guys on rifles and such. Now i'm not. I have hurt feelings.

There are mean people on the interwebs that say things i disagree with (and they make the Exo guys not be my acolytes), but i made up a fictional listener from Australia to justify my biases. My new friend Jack fully agrees that i know cool stuff. He is awesome.

I have reached back to pull up anecdotes that prove i am right, and i will not acknowledge the scope and breadth of other potential people's experiences. Because i'm cool. They aren't.

I still have a big poster of Craig Boddington on my wall, and when i look at him with his really big gun my pants feel funny.

Match bullets are dumb. Until i use them. Then they are awesome.

You don't even have to actually hit something with a Barnes bullet to kill it. It's the Chuck Norris of projectiles.

Wallop, authority and frontal diameter mean everything when you shoot stuff in the ass. Which should be expected because as we know killing stuff means EVERYTHING. The process, enjoyment and gift of being outside is secondary to making stuff dead.

I also get kind of emotional when i think of my imaginary friend Jack's (and by default my own) distress caused by people on the interwebs, and i default to such powerful phrases as "piss-ant" and "put your money where your mouth is". This is my strong closer that i spent hours crafting."

This is a solid piece of work, well done!

 

[huntnful]

I took the hit and am halfway through the pod. Basically he's spewing fuddlore. Arguments against small cals are the same as the drive by fudds, who cant wrap their head around the 223 thread.

I listened to the whole thing. It was brutal, and I’m not even a small cal proponent. Every point was basically made with a quartering too bull moose or a hard quartering away “big” bull elk and HAVING to take the shot????

 

[mxgsfmdpx]

when you have items being sold that say “X member approved” don’t you think people are labeling themselves experts?

I agree with every other thing you posted though. Go kill a bunch of sheet and you’ll quickly learn what works and doesn’t.

And yet, who was the first one to balk at it and literally ask "WTF" about it?

We get that you seem to hate the guy and move towards taking things "personally" with his posts. Is it a deep down crush? We don't judge here... Why not just put the dude on "ignore" and free yourself?

 

[Brontosaurus]

I listened to the whole thing. It was brutal, and I’m not even a small cal proponent. Every point was basically made with a quartering too bull moose or a hard quartering away “big” bull elk and HAVING to take the shot????

fr fr like what happened to waiting for an ethical shot?

 

[Ucsdryder]

And yet, who was the first one to balk at it and literally ask "WTF" about it?

We get that you seem to hate the guy and move towards taking things "personally" with his posts. Is it a deep down crush? We don't judge here... Why not just put the dude on "ignore" and free yourself?

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Possibly.

I’m just impressed you can recall every post he’s made in the last 12 months and bring it up at will! You sure I’m the one with the crush?

 

[Mountainrancher]

I listened to the whole thing. It was brutal, and I’m not even a small cal proponent. Every point was basically made with a quartering too bull moose or a hard quartering away “big” bull elk and HAVING to take the shot????

“But but if you don’t have a 300 whizzbang authority magnum shooting Barnes bullets you can’t shoot an elk in the ass and penetrate into the vitals”. Ok I will literally never take that shot no matter what I’m shooting I don’t think it’s very ethical. Swear he talks like that’s the only shot presentation you will ever see.

 

[WeiserBucks]

a hard quartering away “big” bull elk and HAVING to take the shot????

It's Utah LE tag and Saturday evening, Utards HAVE to take the shot so they can get plenty of help from church Sunday morning, either tracking or packing.

 

[Ucsdryder]

“But but if you don’t have a 300 whizzbang authority magnum shooting Barnes bullets you can’t shoot an elk in the ass and penetrate into the vitals”. Ok I will literally never take that shot no matter what I’m shooting I don’t think it’s very ethical. Swear he talks like that’s the only shot presentation you will ever see.

I’ll poke something in the ass if I have to. I shot an animal in the ass this year that was already shot. He was going over a ridge at 700 yards. It put him down quickly.

 

[WeiserBucks]

I’ll poke something in the ass if I have to. I shot an animal in the ass this year that was already shot. He was going over a ridge at 700 yards. It put him down quickly.

My friend Nathan always says if you shoot em through the hips they don't get away.

 

[Spoonbill]

I’ll poke something in the ass if I have to. I shot an animal in the ass this year that was already shot. He was going over a ridge at 700 yards. It put him down quickly.

Hard to get far if you take out the rear axle, especially if it has already been shot.

 

[WeiserBucks]

Hard to get far if you take out the rear axle, especially if it has already been shot.

Front wheel drive will take em a long ways down a steep canyon, but the damn pack out is always back to the top

 

[WyldGoose]

If there are two camps, I think both have merit in that both small and large bullets kill.

However, on one side, I’ve observed Form/S2H share proof & data on the effectiveness and benefits of shooting smaller bullets with less recoil while saying he also loves larger calibers and enjoys/shoots both. Also, unsponsored and without a bias towards scope brands, only concerned with what works. This camp is willing to debate and often invites conversation.

On the other side, I’ve observed sponsored/paid shills claim hunting with half millimeter smaller bullets don’t work and that testing scopes in a way that exposes how fragile they are is dumb. This camp appears to refuse to have conversations with the other on this topic.

I’d love to see em all chat it out, everyone goes on shooting what they like, and the whole community continues to apply pressure demanding more durable scopes.

 

[Ucsdryder]

My friend Nathan always says if you shoot em through the hips they don't get away.

It’s true, but damn a eldm will put a hurt on your meat yield shooting them in the ass. I think it goes without saying, don’t shoot them in the ass unless they’re already hit…

 

[WeiserBucks]

I’ve observed sponsored/paid

Said it all right there, people do and say what they're paid to do and say.

 

[HighUintas]

I made a really poor shot decision on a doe a few weeks ago with my .58 round ball. Essentially an ass shot. However, it didn't go 10 feet and died in about 20 seconds. It was a pretty messy butchering job and I lost the tenderloins. I don't think I'll do that again.

#biggerisbetter
#ishoot58calsoicanassshootthem

 

[Timberline001]

I listened to a podcast a while back that he did with Robby while I was doing a deep dive looking everything Robby’s ever said about mule deer. From his opinions and general comments I was thinking he was quite a bit older than Robby and I scoffed at the fact it was called the back country podcast. I was shocked when I saw a picture of him

 

[Chad E]

I listened to the whole thing. It was brutal, and I’m not even a small cal proponent. Every point was basically made with a quartering too bull moose or a hard quartering away “big” bull elk and HAVING to take the shot????

You missed big "rutting" bull elk.....because of the scores of rut rifle elk tags across the west lol.

 

[WeiserBucks]

You missed big "rutting" bull elk.....because of the scores of rut rifle elk tags across the west lol.

Scores? There's a shit load of em with some being OTC.

 

[3Esski]

y'all should just bow hunt like normal people and end all this bickering.

 

[Chad E]

Scores? There's a shit load of em with some being OTC.

Your right there's some opportunities but a vast majority of rifle tags across the west fall outside the rut.
Judging by those otc rut rifle tag success rates those rut crazed bull shoulders must be stopping plenty of bullets.