A bit of fun... guess the distance
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290 m
HonestJohn
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8 miles and three tins of tuna
160m & 150m
If we are talking about those specs within the pink rings
Then I’d guess at about 400 and 500m
I appreciate you own 2 creeds but I am shocked by your response.
As a creedmoor owner the key principle is to avoid any sort of dirt getting on my tactical shooting gear including my fluffy ugg boots ....shooting deer where there is a potential of mud or soil is a big no
Also us creedmoor owners dont care about range as we know it will be dead regardless of range
110 yards.
One on top of two
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240 & 270 m
Given the over-emphasis of foreground you get with phone cameras, almost impossible to say. Anything between 75 and 300. A lot depends on how steep that field is, and phone cameras seem to really flatten slopes.
My best guess would be not much over 200.
I’m going to guess you shot off sticks (I’m fairly sure you couldn’t have cleared the hedge off a bipod), and I don’t think many people are that enthusiastic about shooting past 200 from sticks.
Reminds me of a time, many years ago, that I entered a "guess the weight of the ram" competition at a country fair. I'm pretty accurate at estimating sheep weights, so I put down what I thought, which was quite far out of the range of other guesses written on the sheet of paper pinned to the pen.
Just as I was moving away, a couple (non countryside folk, probably never seen a sheep before) with a young son about 9 or 10 came along and the boy wanted to have a go. "What shall I guess, mummy?"
"Oh, just look at what other people have written and put something like it".
The little brat added a kilo to my entry and won!!!!!
Some interesting guesses.
I agree it's not too easy, as the fairly wide angle of the phone photo makes it look a bit further than it is.
The hedge in front of the large tree is 100m, mid point of the grassed area is c.150m, the fallow on the right is 173m, the one on the left is 179m, as pinged through my Leica binos.
It's a fairly steep banked field, so an easy drag down, if the grass is wet a tug on a drag rope and the carcass leads the way!
I've shot many a fallow from that spot over the years, but do it too often in a season and they run straight across to the wood on the right without pause.
Thanks for posting your estimates, a few of you are very close!
I agree it's not too easy, as the fairly wide angle of the phone photo makes it look a bit further than it is.
The hedge in front of the large tree is 100m, mid point of the grassed area is c.150m, the fallow on the right is 173m, the one on the left is 179m, as pinged through my Leica binos.
It's a fairly steep banked field, so an easy drag down, if the grass is wet a tug on a drag rope and the carcass leads the way!
I've shot many a fallow from that spot over the years, but do it too often in a season and they run straight across to the wood on the right without pause.
Thanks for posting your estimates, a few of you are very close!
HonestJohn
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Who won?
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