Ethics of a teen hunter taking an Elk @ 1300+ yards?

[AZshooter]

Shoot as far as you are capable. The greater the distance, the longer the walk to your kill. A young kid may have the energy to go 1300 yards to drag back his kill. Me? Not so much.

[Griff Murphey]

When I was beginning hunting it was with an M-1 match rifle. The first deer I ever killed ran across the road in front of me and I shot him at about 75 yards. Later on I tried, at least twice, a couple of west Texas across-the-canyon M-1 rifle iron sight 350 yard shots and, although I connected, it wasn't pretty. I moved to scope sighted with a sported A3 and had good results keeping my shots around 200 yards. In my younger years many of my 200 yard shots were offhand. Nowadays i shoot from a dead rest, mostly 80 yards, stupid short range really but that is the setup I bought when I moved to my new lease. Before that, on my least from 1967-2001, we mainly shot while driving -.very popular in West Texas. British hurting ethics be damned.

I suspect a top dollar scope, top dollar rifle, and a lot of schooling are involved but I don't think I've ever been as proud of any of it done with dead rest shots as I have been of some of those offhand ones.

[blackhawknj]

I am not a sniper-nor a hunter, nor do I play one on the Web. I note that all a sniper really has to do is take an enemy out of the fight.

[togor]

Geeze, I don't know. Maybe in open country following even the merest blood trail on a running animal is no trouble. Up here in Paul Bunyan country it's a different story. We really stress shot placement. Practical and ethical reasons both.

[Ramair]

Obviously, the animal did not go down right away. How long do you believe this beautiful animal suffered while they made their way over to him. I've done my share of mountain hiking, and it takes quite awhile to get from one peak to another.