I have to admit, I’ve done it....
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A friend of mine and I were talking about getting older and having different views on taking life when hunting.
I’ve always thought of hunting as a more humane way to earn the privilege of eating meat versus buying farmed-meat at the store, and the target shooting and gun hobbyist part of me is certainly interested in terminal ballistics and stuff like that, but the idea of going out and shooting something that you're not going to eat would be kind of strange, unless it is to de-populate an invasive species or some other ‘protective’ or ‘defensive’ situation.
But there ARE exceptions....
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They have horsefly traps that have paper in them that is soaked in some sort of pheromone, and I would love to get some of that printed up as 100 yard targets. I actually shot a horse fly at 100 yards with an 88 grain bullet traveling about 3400 ft./s from a Ruger M77V in 6 mm Remington many years ago. I could see it clearly through my 10-40X scope when it happened to land about an inch from the bull's-eye when I was shooting off the bench, and I sacrificed a good 10 shot group by moving the gun over and aiming at the horsefly.
I could see the fly clearly through the scope but after the shot all I could see was the bullet hole waaay off to the side. I remember thinking it was stupid because it was just gonna look like I pulled the shot and nobody would believe me, but the target actually had radial splatters of horsefly-blood around the hole...!