Herb Parsons shot a SuperGrade Model 70 in .270 Win., with 4x scope- a "Jack O'Connor rifle" as per Rule's book on the great Model 70-a crow dead at 125 yards I would believe- at 1250 I would question- even with a Harris Bipoded M40 .308 168 grain Sierra handload and a Leupold sniper/Spec. ops. scope-- or a .22-250 with 50 grain Hornady bullet in a comparable M700 actioned accurized rifle- wind at 125 yards is a factor- at 10 times that at a small and possible moving target, plus sky and light conditions, sun glare, shadow, moving cloud cover overhead-even Carlos "Long Tra'n" Hathcock who "dinged 'em in at 1000 yards at Camp Perry in 1959 with a NM 1903 would maybe pass up that 1250 yards (or metric today thanks to NATO) shot- Hathcock also show quail awing with his single shot .22 rifle-even after at age 12 he had a single shot 12 ga. shotgun to use- he head shot his birds awing, and the .22 was way cheaper than a shotgun shell, he grew up dirt poor and shot to feed his family- ditto Alvin York from TN in his pre-WW1 boyhood- a hungry empty stomach and only one round at your command makes for an accurate shot-IMO
