DISTANCE LEARNING

LONG, MUCH like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. As students of the Outdoor Solutions Long Range Shooting School shuffled about under a pavilion high atop a hill in northeastern Utah, the instructors pulled us in close. To break the ice, they asked each shooter about his longest hunting shot. One by one, students related their shots while I shrunk a little inside.

There were more than a few who had successfully (and cleanly) taken game with shots in excess of 300 yards. When my turn came, I considered the targets incrementally stretching up the hill to 1,000 yards and timidly explained that after