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This past December I met up with my friends Greg Ray and Chef Joe from Outdoor Solutions for an ambitious (more ambitious than I realized at the time!) elk hunt. We had tags for cow elk in Unit 356 or New Mexico, and this was to be a overland hunt over several days…
What rifle, scope and ammo did you use? Thanks.
I would like to take this opportunity to point out that this video is a perfect illustration of why you don’t use your rifles as a single-shot solution for ranges out past 300m or so…
An elk is roughly twice the target size of a human being; they’re also totally unsuspecting, and not doing the evasive things that an enemy soldier would be doing… That Ian missed at 600+ meters ain’t surprising.
It also illustrates why you need to be using a machinegun in these target circumstances. You may miss with your first round, but the rest of the burst will likely hit something.
The conditions you see recorded here are far more realistic than the ones you commonly see on training ranges; there is copious cover/concealment for the “enemy”, and hitting the target isn’t all that easy. At. All.
Rule of thumb for real war? You see something at 600m, that’s a target for your MG team. Period.
Mind you Ian is a notoriously bad shot “No offence Ian, Flanders.” as he has been for over a decade, I mean there hasn’t been one miss I thought I could have hit with a blindfold; hence my allegation of it being notorious “No offence! Hey I might fund your deserving archieve yet, if I win the lottery; so.” – Can’t be the guns. Anyway Kirk, I in principle agree with you. But maybe Ian the author of the website should instigate a fund… Test you Mg42 lark, I mean thats proof “Less than the best shot Ian” can he storm troop his way to success at 1,400rpm. Fundraiser. 50 bux a bet, ammo costs.
I want to post simply to support the topic. We need to keep the culture alive of hunting and eating and preparing our own food. It doesn’t take expensive equipment either–grandpa’s single shot .22 for rabbits and squirrels or 30-30 for deer will do the job. A tip for hunting public land is to utilize seasons that “fair weather hunters” avoid, such as September muzzleloading and January antlerless whitetail deer seasons where I live in Kansas. Even if you come up empty, you see other animals out in nature that you would miss if you were sitting on the couch watching “sportsball”.
To keep hunting alive we need to cut the population and turning every square inch of land into a strip mall.
Give it a few years, and you’ll be looking around and saying “Where’d everybody go…?”, while bemoaning the lack of people to do things.
“Empty Planet” doesn’t even begin to describe where we’re heading. I can’t think of a single historical case wherein a civilization dropped to 1.14 fertility rates and actually survived. The only examples we have were ones where the people who weren’t interested in procreating were invaded and supplanted by outsiders.
It’s rather amazing to observe how thoroughly the Malthusians managed to penetrate everything. No doubt, if any of us are around to study such things, the entire genesis of that idea is going to be a subject of much learned discussion and study.
No people to do things with? Not so very bad. Heck I bet the world can even get by without me. Like ol’ Englebert Humperdinck, the original one, sang “All things shall perish under the sky; Music alone shall live, never to die.”
Sad to see how many have succumbed to the nihilism of our current civilizational overlords, without asking “Why? Who does this benefit?”
People are people; either accept them as they are, try to improve them as you can, or whatever. Despair is a sin.
The secret ingredient is the fact that people espousing Malthusianism generally have a particular group that they’d like to “sacrifice”, which is what they really believe in
A world with about 90% fewer people would be reason for hope
As for ‘nihilism,’ one might have a look at Brett Stevens’ essays here and there online to understand that what gets called nihilism is almost its exact opposite. See too ‘Gnostic Fragments’ by Nimrod de Rosario