Welcome to the Huntback Country podcast. Today we are getting into a bit of a hot topic, and it is effective distance of shooting with a rifle in a hunting scenario on big game.

We're not approaching this from necessarily an ethical perspective.

We are not approaching this necessarily from a technical perspective in terms of what is a rifle or cartridge or bullet capable of.

What I wanted to do is ask form about ways that we personally, for ourselves, and practically can get a better feel of what are our true capabilities.

So you and your hunting rifle, that's what we're talking about today.

How can you assess and make some judgments on what you're truly capable of

and what type of shots you should be taking in the field at what

distances on big game so that's what we discussed today this isn't meant to address every single

aspect of distance of technical aspects of rifle systems or of ethics.

Again, I wanted to focus in on you and your rifle and what you're capable of today, right now.

And if you want to improve that and extend distance and extend your capabilities in the future,

what are ways that you can assess that?

What type of shots can you and should you be taking? It's more about your skill than it is about

your equipment or in the case of this context, even about the ethics of long range. Those are good conversations to have at a different

day, but I'm excited to get practical and give you and give me some tips on what we can do

to assess our effective distance in the field. So again, that's what we discussed today with

form. As you may have heard,

we did a podcast Q&A recently with form. Check that out. It is the prior podcast to this one.

And we have several other discussions that we've had with form, more on the technical aspects,

on ballistics, on terminal ballistics, and more.

So check out the links in the show description for all that.

And in today's conversation, you will also hear about some resources, targets, and drills,

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