What's your Longest Shot? [Old subject revisited]

[6Taylor4]

3 years ago [has it been that long?] there was this discussion:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1288320/discussions/0/5294572213362411341/
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I think it would be informative to revisit this!
Feel free to post screenshots, stories, comments.

[6Taylor4]

After looking through screenshots, my only records for hunts, I found a very low bar for starters:
My longest shot (verifiable with screenshot - not required for any reason, I'll take your word): 698 yards, Rocky Mountain Elk.

However, I am most impressed with this shot (verifiable with screenshot): 314 yards Greylag Goose with my .243 Winchester, std ammo!

[VictoriaHuntress]

A better question is "what is your % success rate when taking long shots?"

- for a given rifle/cartridge/bullet
- for a given species
- with Hunter Sense on
- with Hunter Sense off
- using a fixed zero range, and holding over for elevation and windage.
- for a given range to target: < 100 meters, < 200 meters, < 300 meters, ...., < 1000m, > 1000 meters


What is the statistically significant % of
- clean misses - no hit
- non-fatal first shot
- fatal first shot, bleeding only
- fatal first shot, critical damage resulting in an instant kill

when you recover an animal, where is the actual Point of Impact relative to your intended point of aim? That's important because of random dispersion cone errors, aim sway errors.
For that, you need to capture a screen shot of your riflescope sight picture just as you start squeezing the trigger, which can be set up on Steam/PC if you use a controller.

At what range, for a given rifle/cartridge/bullet, does the success % drop below 50%?
Or, if a 5* Mature Male (of a given species) is on the line, and he's way out there, which weapon would you choose to have the best chance of a fatal hit?

[VictoriaHuntress]

This isn't my longest, but it was a very satisfying shot


https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3447502614
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3447503722

It was pure luck that it was an instant kill heart shot, even with the Steyr rifle. There is no way it is possible to aim so precisely with that scope at that distance, since the estimated holdover would be about 0.15 to 0.2 MILS, less than 1/4 of the smallest reticle division (1 MIL). The dispersion cone diameter for that rifle is already just over 1 MIL, so the shot could have landed anywhere in a circle with a diameter of 73 cm on the target. If you zoom in on the target animal, you'll see that this is pretty close to the spine-to-belly body width.

[6Taylor4]

Originally posted by VictoriaHuntress:

A better question is "what is your % success rate when taking long shots?"

- for a given rifle/cartridge/bullet
- for a given species
- with Hunter Sense on
- with Hunter Sense off
- using a fixed zero range, and holding over for elevation and windage.
- for a given range to target: < 100 meters, < 200 meters, < 300 meters, ...., < 1000m, > 1000 meters


What is the statistically significant % of
- clean misses - no hit
- non-fatal first shot
- fatal first shot, bleeding only
- fatal first shot, critical damage resulting in an instant kill

when you recover an animal, where is the actual Point of Impact relative to your intended point of aim? That's important because of random dispersion cone errors, aim sway errors.
For that, you need to capture a screen shot of your riflescope sight picture just as you start squeezing the trigger, which can be set up on Steam/PC if you use a controller.

At what range, for a given rifle/cartridge/bullet, does the success % drop below 50%?
Or, if a 5* Mature Male (of a given species) is on the line, and he's way out there, which weapon would you choose to have the best chance of a fatal hit?

Well, I assume you record most every shot manually, as there is no way to use the game to easily determine most of the answers to your alternate questions. I dearly wish there were!

[Mauserich]

Originally posted by VictoriaHuntress:

A better question is "what is your % success rate when taking long shots?"

- for a given rifle/cartridge/bullet
- for a given species
- with Hunter Sense on
- with Hunter Sense off
- using a fixed zero range, and holding over for elevation and windage.
- for a given range to target: < 100 meters, < 200 meters, < 300 meters, ...., < 1000m, > 1000 meters


What is the statistically significant % of
- clean misses - no hit
- non-fatal first shot
- fatal first shot, bleeding only
- fatal first shot, critical damage resulting in an instant kill

when you recover an animal, where is the actual Point of Impact relative to your intended point of aim? That's important because of random dispersion cone errors, aim sway errors.
For that, you need to capture a screen shot of your riflescope sight picture just as you start squeezing the trigger, which can be set up on Steam/PC if you use a controller.

At what range, for a given rifle/cartridge/bullet, does the success % drop below 50%?
Or, if a 5* Mature Male (of a given species) is on the line, and he's way out there, which weapon would you choose to have the best chance of a fatal hit?

You know already what and how you shot, why do you have to have explicit statistics on that? ,-)

[6Taylor4]

When will they add AI to solve all these problems?