What is long range? 300, 600, 800+ yards? Each shooter/hunter has different definitions on this. What is the skill level of the shooter/hunter?

Preciate the judgement.

How about killing praire dogs, coyotes, and hogs at long range? That's all I've kiiled at long range, is that Ok?

"Long range hunting" and good sportsmanship have absolutely nothing to do with each other.

To be a hunter, you have to understand that there is going to be a chance of a crippled. slowly expiring and/or lost game animal - and to be a Sportsman, you must be determined to reduce the chance of that happening to as low a likelihood as is humanly possible.

The long range hunter is the direct opposite of a Sportsman, here is a person who deliberately, methodically sets out to hunt under conditions that they know will multiply the chances of a crippled. slowly expiring and/or lost game animal - by several orders of magnitude. They are ready and willing to take this gamble - as long as it is only a fine game animal who will suffer when they lose the bet.

The folks who are duped into this are only guilty of being fooled - but the ones who promote or tolerate it despite the fact that they know better trail slime behind them, wherever they may go.

Since this misbehavior is on the rise, it is the duty of Sportsmen everywhere to strongly, actively discourage it. We should spread the word about good sportsmanship, and what it means.

When good men understand Sportsmanship, they will eschew the entire idea of "long range hunting" as something that one might deliberately pursue.

Sounds like a archery hunter has a lot in common to a long range hunter to me.

Thanks, dad..

I always heard that they only shoot from very short distances.

I'm not an archery hunter though, I just have to go by what they say.

So if a guy has the skill to hit a prairie dog at 500 yards he should not shoot a mule deer at 500 yards across a canyon because it is "unsportsman like"?

Precisely. - You hit the nail on the head.

I think hunters should know there limitations and keep long range, short range, bow, gun, etc out of the discussion.

Several shooters are students of their passion and know a great deal about it and have the experience required to do it. The problem I see is the cool factor that goes along with it and it urges people who don't have the same qualifications to attempt it with the if its a hit its dead if I don't find it, it was a clean miss mentality.

That is not a range problem its a hunters ethics problem.

I think hunters should know there limitations and keep long range, short range, bow, gun, etc out of the discussion.

Several shooters are students of their passion and know a great deal about it and have the experience required to do it. The problem I see is the cool factor that goes along with it and it urges people who don't have the same qualifications to attempt it with the if its a hit its dead if I don't find it, it was a clean miss mentality.

That is not a range problem its a hunters ethics problem.

Hey, I'm just putting my take on it out there. - I wouldn't want the "long range hunters" to get the idea that I think of them as Sportsmen, or anything like that.

If there's any confusion on what that means, I can only recommend a re-reading of the original post. The information is all right there.

It's always amazing to me, how often I get burning questions that have already been clearly answered - in the original post.

will you define long range hunting in distance ... you can use feet, yards, meters, inches I dont care. I just need to know where to set up my feeder to be considered a sportsman.