Thanks for the information, your prior comments and some of the pics caused me to have my opinion about the school.
The power line location for one thing, as those facilities are carefully monitored for potential problems.
Permanent target setups would certainly be visable to the flyovers that take place.
In any event it is a great location to shoot from, and would for sure be a very good place to hunt long range.
Mainly due to its diversity of being able to look in several different directions from the same spot.
Note in the one photo the sun having an affect, which can and does shut things down.
But there you could just start looking in a different direction not yet affected,
and swing back to the earlier spot later in the day. In other words its an all day spot and very few are.
The type of terrain seen is typical to what can be seen thruout that mountain chain.
PA, western MD, W/VA, VA, the Carolinas and even GA offer those type of shooting oppurtunities.
Where PA has its advantage over others, is that much of that type land is public as opposed to private.
Meaning that hunters from other states like MI and FL for example can drive there, spend
about $125 bucks for an over the counter non res license good for the whole year, and go hunt.
As for the actual shooting, in match shooting of any type, its about the shooter and how good he is
compared to the other shooters on that particular day. There are always winners and losers as in any other sport.
Whereas with hunting, and especially long range hunting, there can be several losers with just one shooter.
So in reality it isn't, or at least shouldn't, be about our own individual chest pounding ability as to how good we are.
Because the real reality is that non of us really are, especially in that type environment.
A prime example would be the power line location where the pic shows a righty shooter laying prone probably using a bipod.
He appears to have a pretty good body position even considering the serious slope, which is very important even with a bipod.
But now try to envision a lefty trying to get into a decent position at that same spot. And to complicate it further, as he does,
the target which is a deer, decides to walk off a few hundred feet to his right before stopping again? Suppose its to the right and
also down hill at the same time? Whats that do to the shooters present prone position? And the same thing holds true for the righty
at that location and frankly every location. If the first shot is a poor hit and the animal takes off running, a belly shooter simply cannot
stay on that animal in that type terrain. First off the limited field of the scope alone would assure that. And a spotter, if he even has one, laying in the tall cotton beside him, and looking thru the same type scope would also have lost the animal. Its a recipe for total disaster, and those who don't think so, think that way because theve never done it to have experienced it. Especially in that type of terrain, and that's just one example of the possibilities.
Anybody thinking their a good enough fly fisherman to land a 100# tarpon in the Florida Keys alone, will go home with a different opinion.
The guy running the boat will be responsible for him landing the tarpon, or not landing the tarpon. Its a totally different ball game as stream fishing
for big trout, although a fly rod is used in both cases. With the right equiptment and good people supporting, its not really all that hard.
Same as long range hunting in the eastern wooded mountains.
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