see it shoot it
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I know what I'm capable of, but the silverware in a box in the garage at my mums house says it all. I don't need awards or trophies on show to prove anything and the only head I have ever put on a plaque was the first roe I shot from the woodland I bought up in Sutherland. Maybe it isn't easy to understand but target shooting and the hunting of quarry can't be compared in the terms you are trying to cross over. Why push? there's nothing to better?
A gun is not just a gun. It is a very specialised machine that is carefully tweaked to an end. I can't get you to understand what you are not able to accept because it's more philosophy than a set of commands. A bullet will not make a poor shot good and like I've tried to explain, the environmental variables that effect everything from the firers position, to the variations in cross winds across extended glades as well as the fitness, emotional anxiety and heart rate prior to a shot leaving the rifle absolutely destroy the potential of a bullet to correct the imperfections of a well intended shot.
I can't disagree that the finest ammo that could be made is better than ammo that is just 'ok' but then at what point of accuracy and stalking craft does a bullet's fine end potential to group on paper make a deer any less or more dead. Unless perhaps at excessive range? There's nothing to prove either way in this. I made my point without any doubt and perhaps if I used your reloading strategy I could do better.... but only on paper. That's not what those rifles are for, and certainly not my time spent with them.
hope you get your rangemaster and enjoy it as much as I enjoy owning and shooting my own rifles which allow me to take shots from 20 yards to well I wont go there as that's another story and frownd upon on this site.which model are you hoping to get ??