6 pages of nonsense of course was joking. But the question about what is long range is real. It seems a lot of people who reply to this is confusing long range target shooting and hunting.
I have at least a dozen friends who hunt in the western US where covering 12 miles a day on foot is the norm. Shots on Elk or Mule deer at 3 to 4 hundred yards are not uncommon and typically are successful.
These guys sight in for what's called maximum deviation. A typical hunting magnum like a 7mm STW sighted in for a maximum deviation of 6" will impact the vital zone of an Elk with a center hold from muzzle to 400 yards.
Flight time to 400 yards is not excessive but of course you don't take low percentage shots.
I use a 4" maximum deviation for whitetail deer here in the east.
I competed in high power rifle silhouette for about 10 years. I was not a top class competitor but if you moved the rams in (which are about the size of a deer) to 300 meters I would hit them at least 75% of the time with a standard deer rifle. This was off hand standing. Laying prone with a backpack as a rest it was easy.
I guess it's all in what you call long range. Just like many of you I'm not impressed when I here about the guy who shot the doe at 1200 yards with his 338 Lapua. To me that's just a stunt.
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