Wyoming long range hunting debate

[Pacific_Fork]

Anyone who thinks that hunting with a modern rifle and scope is different at one range than another is just a different level of hypocrite than the guy who thinks that distance is 100 yards more or less.
If they want to limit range, it's going to have to include excluding optics entirely. Which, as a mule deer hunter, I'm entirely in favor of.

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300 yards a buck, bull, pronghorn can VERY easily spot or smell you. Hell even at 4-500. 800+ is where they have almost zero advantage anymore. So your logic is just, well dumb.

 

[mt terry d]

So attack the biologists and not the individual posting their results. Or better yet, you go do your own study and publish the results. Show us exactly how a study should be done. Then go work with every G&F department to implement a foolproof method to accurately track wounding and mortality rates by weapon type and distance.


Otherwise you and your thoughts belong on The View with the other cackling hens.

I was attacking the biologists and the guy from MTFWP.

Sorry if you inferred otherwise.

 

[PathFinder]

300 yards a buck, bull, pronghorn can VERY easily spot or smell you. Hell even at 4-500. 800+ is where they have almost zero advantage anymore. So your logic is just, well dumb.

How bad do you have to screw up to get busted at 400 yards? Even 300?
Last year I had a MZ tag in a unit that also has early rifle tags. There was a group of 8 bucks living in a little corner of a basin, two were shooters. The glassing point where I sat to watch them during the four days I hunted them was 350-600 yards away from where they fed and bedded, depending on exactly where each buck was. It wasn't difficult whatsoever to avoid detection at that distance. With a scoped rifle, that hunt would have been over in five minutes. With the open sighted MZ, it took four days to get a scenario where I could get close enough to one of the big bucks without busting them.
Saying there's no effective difference between scoped and open sighted weapons just because if you jump up and down, waving your hands and screaming they'll notice you at 400 yards is what is stupid.