So are you saying people will take shots with open sights at longer ranges, like they would if they had a scope. ( let's just say Iike 200 yards. ) And you don't think those same people if allowed to use a scope are not going to try lets say 300, 400, 500, 600 + yard shots ? Believe me, they will. Some people are going to stretch there opertunities beyond what they are capable of no matter what. So, as far as wounding animals, I am sure it's about the same or worse. Just cause you can see them don't mean you can shoot ( kill) them.
Generally, allowing people to do something just because they will do it anyways is not a great answer.
Well, it all depends on the target. If your shooting at something the size of a car door, or a chew can. Some people think because they can hit something the size of tractor tire ( their target) at 500 yards, their good to go. I say the size of an orange, at the most, at any yardage. And be able to do it first shot, second and third, repeatedly. Just because the distance increases don't mean the target size should increase. An animals vitals remain the same size, regardless how close or how far away they are.
pretty much. my thought/action is if you can't definitively hit it on the range you have no excuse for shooting at any animal at that distance. Of course, your target size will vary based on what you hunt - squirrels to bison.
Yea size of animal will vary, but does that give you any reason to not shoot the same size (group) as you would on a smaller animal. Again I say orange size group, repeatability, no matter the yardage, why drop your standereds,for any big game animal.
I never gave a group size. Said MER for you and your weapon.
There is nothing stopping you from doing that - I'm writing in the nicest possible manner. We can use whatever we want - you can use it during rifle and ML seasons I think.
Trad archers could get the first two weeks in November, say. Yeah, that's it! Talk about growing big bucks!
The modern muzzy guys could also use their scoped, long range guns during regular rifle.
Well I can tell you there's a huge advantage to cross bows. My buddy had shoulder surgery and couldn't shoot his long bow or compound. So he bought a cross bow. And within a half a dozen shots, he was shooting better then he ever does with his bows. And at 60 yards was shooting better then he does at 20 yards with his bows. He bought one of those, recurve cross nows, that the add used to show the guy beating the he'll out of it. I think he said the guy even drove over it. But wasn't one of these compound modern cross bows, I could only imagine how much easier they would be.
If I ever archery hunted again, it would be with a recurve crossbow.
