A good method if you have a week available to sight in one rifle. I can sight in in a few minutes without worrying about flys farting and never have to worry about missing a deer or a varmint, so why bother?
“A good method if you have a week available to sight in one rifle.”
[Article: “How many shots do you think you are going to get at a deer?”]
Well, probably just one. But it’s not like a Regiment of NVA are going to come after me, either.
"Some years later in the late 90’s or really early this century, I was talking to a Police Sniper and he was really impressed I knew Carlos. I told him about the way Carlos had me sight in my rifle and suggested he do the same thing as he was a sniper for the Henrico Country SWAT team. He had never heard of that and took it to heart. About two and a half years later, he got called to a domestic situation where a husband had a handgun to his wife’s head and was going to kill her. After the Sergeant in charge and the Pysch guy determined the husband was really going to do it, the Police Officer was asked if he could hit the guy at just over 200 yards and not hit the wife. He said he knew he could (because he had followed Carlos method), so they told him to take the shot. One shot and the perp’s head exploded. The wife was scared crapless, but unharmed.Without the discipline of recording and understanding every factor, the Sargent in charge and the psych guy and he himself might not have had the certainty to take the shot. The wifey would be dead, and very shortly thereafter so would the hubby.
When he told me about it about when I saw him the first time a week after the incident, the first thing I asked him if he was OK about taking the shot. He understood I was talking about the psychological aspects and he really appreciated it. He said, it had bothered him a little that night until he remembered that if he had not taken the shot, the wife would have died. I checked back with him and he really was OK with having taken the shot. I’ve checked back every gun show I see him at and I know he is doing fine about it."
Was it worth depriving the ever loving hubby of the originally scheduled remaining few seconds of his life? I think wifey and her family would say so...
Oh yeah, tough guy - but you don’t have to worry about that deer shooting back, do you?
Big talk.
I think you missed a key detail ...
What's that old saying, you can't see the forest because of the tree's!!!!!!!!!
let me help cut a few of those tree's out of your eye line, so you may see the Forest.
I'm a former "Hand Loader," i.e., I used to "roll my own," I did so for a "25-06" {NOT A TYPE-O} a "30-06,-O3-A3," Full Military version (Loved the peep-sight on that thing,) also a 35 Whalen (a poor mans 375 H&H African Hunting Rifle.) For the first 100 yards, a 35 Whalen & a 375 Holland & Holland are exactly the same. I'm, 66 yr's old as I write this out, and when I was a young punk, I thought rifle scopes was a form of cheating. I've learned to accept rifle scopes for working men. (Read that as I think all Sniper's should use a glass / scope.)
What flew over your head @ approx. 35 thousand feet, is when a Sniper has to "TAKE THE SHOT," the barrel of his / her rifle is 100 percent COLD / room temp. So depending on just what is the ambient (room) temperature, (are you taking the shot in southern California) during the winter, or Alaska.
I was self taught, reloading pre internet. I was a semi happy camper when I could keep a group of three shots @ 100 yards (the longest shooting facility I had access to) less than the size of a quarter, hoping to keep under the size of a dime, but most times just making a nickel in size. Wish I would have learned to keep a "DOPE-BOOK." (Dope = Data- on -Previous - Engagements,) only the military could come up with such a phrase & word {Engagements} for killing people.
One-Shot-One-Kill, doesn't happen because some fly farted, it happens when a shooter and his weapon are on the same page, physically (room Temperature, etc) can see the target, and most importantly have the confidence from experience (range time in all weather conditions) to take the shot!!!! Knowing just where that shot will land on a piece of real estate the size of a dime, or less.
Lesson to be learned, Carlos Hathcock Method of Sighting in a Rifle, is the gold standard, if that's your line of work, even today, in the year 2020.
In his last days, Carlos Hathcock regretted he never had you for a shooting coach........