"Just wondering, has anyone ever heard one of these long range hunter's either wound or completely miss an animal at 400+ yds? I haven't!"
I freely admit to having crippled quite a few coyotes in that 400+ yard range. When hunting with hounds, a crippled coyote is a dead coyote and that was our goal. Deer? Not many that couldn't be followed up. Probably fewer than "Joe the plumber" who only shot his "turdy/turdy" when a deer was in sight(and knew zilch about zero and trajectory).
I freely admit to having crippled quite a few coyotes in that 400+ yard range. When hunting with hounds, a crippled coyote is a dead coyote and that was our goal. Deer? Not many that couldn't be followed up. Probably fewer than "Joe the plumber" who only shot his "turdy/turdy" when a deer was in sight(and knew zilch about zero and trajectory).