Long-Range Hunting: Good, Bad, or Situational?

Backcountry Hunting Podcast

Joseph von Benedikt

Backcountry, Rifle, Deer, Podcast, Elk, Mountain, Sports, Hunt, Wilderness, Cartridge, Hunting

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2019

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

SHOW NOTES

• Scenario: Running game vs. long shot?

• Intro: Long-Range Hunting—an exploration of all the elements

• Listener questions & comments

• Defining long-range hunting

• The Ethical Argument against long-range hunting

• A skill-based argument for long-range hunting

• Potential issues with long-range hunting

Potential for poor hits
Insufficient projectile performance
Difficulty recovering game
Too many hunters don't practice

• Potential advantages of long-range skill

More precise shots at common distances
Making the most of backcountry opportunities
Experience success more frequently
Harvest bigger animals, more often

• ABC's of becoming a long-range hunter

• JvB's personal creed: Be the best hunter possible so long shots are rarely necessary; be the best rifleman possible so as to ethically make long shots when required.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Imagine that you are presented with two different shot opportunities.
0:07.0	Neither is easy, and you have to make a choice.
0:11.0	The first one is a legitimate quarter mile shot, 440 yards. You're prone, you have a
0:20.3	bipod, and the game animal that you're shooting at is standing still.
0:27.4	The second is at just 80 yards, but you're standing offhand and the animal is running through a forest.
0:37.0	Today we're going to confront the dragon in its cave. We're going to talk about long-range hunting. Good, bad, or good or bad,
0:49.3	depending on the situation, right? We're going to grab the dragon by its neck, drag it out of its cave and
0:56.0	ring it out and try and put some light on the various aspects and potential problems with and advantages of long-range hunting. Now of course this is just one man's opinions. This is Joseph
1:15.9	Von Benedict talking. I'm not the be-all or end-all in this and I'm not an attorney I'm not a psychological counselor right so this is just a set of
1:39.9	opinions that I've developed after many many years working in the writing industry working as a professional big game guide, and hunting myself in a pretty vast
1:48.5	variety, a broad spectrum of terrain and
1:54.0	and for a pretty wide spectrum of species as well,
1:58.6	and in a bunch of different cultures that have very, very different opinions on what a long shot consists of.
2:10.0	Welcome to the show today folks.
2:11.4	Thanks for tuning in. Now first I want to read a few
2:16.2	listener comments and questions. Here's one from Instagram. This listener goes by the handle of at M. Frigerio 427, I hope I
2:30.0	pronounced that at least remotely and it's about parallax on scopes for
2:37.7	backcountry hunting. I did not address parallax at all in the recent episode talking about ideal
2:47.1	scopes for backcountry hunting and that was a mistake on my part he's
2:51.2	entirely right what he wrote was hey just got done listening to the
2:54.4	podcast on scopes for backcountry hunting for the second time. A lot of good
2:58.4	information. However, I was curious why Parallax adjustment didn't come up. Is this a feature that you feel is or isn't
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