Quote Originally Posted by 40FordDeluxe View Post
The first deer I shot was with my old mosin and iron sights and it was 350 yards out. I really like the elevator on them. I like long range shooting and like to use both, but a scope is dang nice. To each his own.

2 years ago I shot a deer with a .460 casull hand gun. I wish I owned that gun but it is a friend's. It's a sweet piece. That was the first year hand guns were allowed to hunt deer in Iowa.

That's pretty decent shooting. I've never been comfortable with a scope though I understand why the deer hunters use them.
The bull at the 500 yard line when I was in boot camp in 61 was 10" if memory serves me correctly and at 500 yards it looks like a pencil dot, at least to me anyway. I qualified expert in boot camp with an M1 but a couple of years later the best I could do was marksman with an M14.