re: Spinoff: Outdoor related falsehoods people believe

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King Ranch has been culling deer forever. Yet they still produce cull bucks every year. You're not changing the genetics of a heard that way

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Yup. It takes roughly 13 years if you are able to identify every deer in a herd every year, as well as know the genetic makeup of all the does that contribute 50% of antler genes, and taking them out before they get a chance to breed to "cull" a particular genetic trait. As you said, that is why ranches that have been culling for years will always still produce "culls". Not to mention, you won't find a ranch worth a damn that culls bucks before 3.5 years old, which is what the original quote was. Let's also not forget that bucks don't breed an unlimited amount of does. They will breed just a few a year. This isn't cattle or elk. It's white tails. And a doe who is previously bred will still breed with another buck the same year, and take. In those cases, it is highly likely that the first buck breeding her is a yearling or younger buck, which don't typically get culled anyway......so you see the issue with saying you are culling for the sake of antler building or giving better bucks a better chance to breed.

Gonna rain some downvotes up in here I'm sure.

Eta: my use of "a few" earlier isn't intended to mean 3....just that it's not dozens. Lol

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Study a trajectory chart, you will see that bullets rise in any properly sighted rifle, through mid range

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Exactly, see below. If a bullet doesn't rise then how can you explain it starting at 1.5" low before rising to 2.87" above before falling eventually into the negatives?

Bc your chart is for sighting in w gun at a distance. Just like to hit a head high object at 200 ft with a baseball you aim up for it to zero at that distance. The barrel is tilted up so the bullet "rises" and falls to hit a "0"

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That is how high the crosshairs are above the bore of the rifle (1.5"). Then it goes to where you have it zeroed in and falls. The barrel is aimed up either way. With a perfectly level barrel, it ain't going up

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Sort of.

Technically the bullet is falling from the millisecond it leaves the barrel. So the zeroed in mark, be it 100 or 200 yards, is actually the intersection point of roughly a linear angle between the vector through your eyes and the cross hairs and the vector of the barrel minus gravitational force acting on the bullet for the length of time it takes the bullet to get to that intersection of vectors. That is if we ignore coefficient of drag, temperature, and humidity of course. Since the time for a bullet to reach a 100 or 200 yard target is so small, the distance of drop to that point is minimal but it does exist.

i.e. BULLETS, LIKE ARROWS, ARE ALWAYS MOVING IN A CURVILINEAR PATH AND NEVER IN A STRAIGHT LINE NOT EVEN FOR A THOUSANDTH OF A SECOND. (when shot inside of earths gravitational field.)

Dig a hole on the wrong phase of the moon and you won't have enough dirt to fill it back up.

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There is a "void" above the lungs and below the spine

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I will have to cordially disagree with you here on this one.
I'm not saying it's a "void" but just above the the lungs one can make a perfect broadside shot and potentially have not hit vitals. Did it about 6 years ago on a cull buck. 22 yards, perfectly broadside and nearly even with me ( he was higher up the ridge than my tree, thus making it roughly zero angulation)
Shish-ka-bobbed him on what looked to be a perfect front of lung shot. After initial jump he ran 15 yds or so and stopped, looked back...and then slowly walked away acting unhit. I could see 6-8 inches of arrow sticking out both sides as he walked dead away from me. Got a pic of him on one of our cameras a week later, arrow still in him, coming in to check does.
He may have died eventually from infection, but not from what looked to be a perfect hit.
My guess is when they breathe out as they coil to take off at the release/launch noise, their lungs decrease a bit in size, like a semi-deflated balloon. Arrow gets there split second later as lung is refilling and the blades miss high on the top of the lung, but too low to cut any major veins or arteries running under the backbone.
Thus a seemingly perfect lung hit leaves a non-mortal hit on a deer and a very confused bowhunter in it's wake.
JMHO

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An apparently dull rusty hook

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Then why did you take the bait?


In any case, I have seen more than one Brown Bear round suddenly decide it was going to rise 12+ inches by the time it hit 250 yards.

Hell, a while back I had three rounds pull hard right by three feet. You could have laid a playing card over the grouping, but they all punched through a metal pistol target rather than hitting the paper target.

I was just highlighting factory bullets do enough funny things that I would be hesitant to say bullets don't rise.

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Swollen throat, eyes, lips, cheeks, tongue, ears. Itching face/throat, coughing, scratchy lungs, stomach cramps, red eyes, itchy/swollen nasal passages and ear canals.

and guess what?

have never gotten a poison ivy rash since. Before that I was so allergic I'd basically live with poison ivy rashes all summer.

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That's taking one for science

The science says that until 3.5 years at a min you can determine if it is a cull or not but really older like 4.5 years and up.