GET CLOSE. If you can’t get close, you’re not hunting. Get close, so you know the shot will hit, the animal won’t suffer, the job will get done. Getting close is also the gratification piece, the hunting bit — the component of the hunt that separates the experienced from the newbies.
NICK Harvey was an old-school type, so he may not have been so black and white as to write the paragraph above, but it’s how he felt about long-range shooting.
He wasn’t averse to pulling out a long shot if he needed to, and certainly had the shooting chops to make it work when he did, but the planning, stalking, hunting was important to him, rather than hoping a long-range shot would find its mark.
“He was always conscious of where the wind was, where the sun was”
“He was into teaching or coaching people into the ethics of hunting, a big part of that being trying to achieve what they were capable
