judging range

[fabsroman]

Model 70,

You have to remember that when trying to estimate range, you need to look at something that you know the size of. Picking a tree or a rock will not do it because they all come in extremely different sizes. However, a whitetail, from the largest to the smallest, are usually somewhat comparable in size within an area. Hence, ranging them is a lot easier than picking a rock off the side of a mountain and trying to figure out its range.

One example is my thinking that the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon was a hop, skip and a jump away because I could see it from the Canyon Rim. I mentioned that I would like to walk down to the river and see it up close, and was told that it would take a day to get down to it and another day to come back. I could not believe it when I heard it, but finally came to the notion that the Colorado River must be pretty big, and therefore, look a lot closer than it is.