Sometimes those of us that live and breathe this outdoor hunting sport tend to lose a bit of perspective.

We end up in a bubble of our own creation and those of the friends that we gravitate to because of shared interests.

And we kind of lose sight of the fact that sometimes the skills and the gear and the techniques and so forth that we use to close

the deal at the moment of truth are somewhat obscure to people that are just trying to get in to this backcountry hunting thing that

drives so much passion once you become addicted to it. I was recently

reminded by this by a letter from a listener that's kind of

become a long-distance friend. This is James and he wrote and said good day

Joseph I've been enjoying your podcast and the Patreon special episodes.

Thank you for keeping the podcast going.

Now, as you know, from my previous correspondence, I have a wee gun shop in New Zealand and I specialize in setting up

rifles and verifying them at the range for people. I've noticed that so many people want to be able

to shoot out to 500 or 600 yards, but don't have their head

around everything you should take into consideration when shooting ethically out beyond a couple

hundred yards.

The dial-up scopes are easily available and affordable.

So I'm finding myself taking a rifle to the range and citing it in for customers and verifying a drop chart to 400 yards and then explaining how it all works.

Often I see customers with custom dials that are made to the ammo box specifications or smaller scopes without parallax adjustment and zero

ranges of 50 yards.

I hear complaints of shots pulling left or right at longer ranges.

I see a lack of understanding of angle compensation and poor caliber bullet choices just to name a few.

I thought a podcast on everything you should consider from a novice point of view.

If you want to shoot extended ranges, especially with the dial-up scope, would be a resource I would most

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