HORNADY 7MM PRC - 1023 YARD SHOT 

These kind of videos are contributing to more and more wounded animals not being recovered.

What an awesome deal! Thank y’all for being so involved with your fan base! I love my Edge, I’m sure this is just as good. Perfect set up for your long distance course!

This doesn't feel right to me. If you want to demonstrate how small a target the new 7 mm PRC can hit from 1024 yards you could have used a simple steel plate to do it. There was no need to use that Elk as a marketing guinea pig. It seems like a cruel disservice to the animal. Before I start getting hate messages for voicing my opinion you should know that I am an RMEF and BHA member. I respect these animals too much to try such a long range shot like that. The worst part about it is that now every Tom, Dick and Harry (many of whom have no business shooting out that far at game) on the world wide web is going to want to go into the field and take unethical shots in copy cat fashion.

I know it was a crazy far shot but from a marketing standpoint I don't think I would have posted a video of an elk needing two shots and then bragging about how awesome the 7 PRC is. That's like bragging about how I have the best broadheads ever and then showing a video of a deer needing to get hit by two of them to go down. Maybe take a closer shot and go for DRT or at least a one shot kill? Either way I'm sure the 7PRC will do fine

Thats one sweet rifle. As a fellow LR hunter i kinda get why a lot in the comments got their panties in a bunch. We owe it to the animals to provide clean ethical kills. I love shooting steel to beyond distances like this but have made a mistake or two along the way hunting and have had to suck up my pride and do whats right. Knowing your limitations is really important. A few years back I cut my hunting distances to half that range and pretty much always get bang flops since. And wont shoot unless i know and can favour for the conditions. Personally my limit is around 600m and that’s shooting big critters with big rifles, 7s and 338s in rock steady positions. There’s a lot that can go wrong out at 1000 and beyond and it’s to hard on my conscious to risk that. I’m not a fan of the marketing buy this rifle and you can shoot animals at 1000 yards. I do love the technology and how rifles are advancing and will eventually have a 7prc but shots at those distances for me will be on steel and ill still ideally try to work within 500 regardless of what calibre, bullet setup being used. Impressive speed for that short of a barrel that is certainly one handy and capable rifle. Cheers

I shoot targets that are smaller than an elk at 1000 yards, but I wouldn't shoot an elk at 1000. A decent gust of wind and you have a wounded animal. Didn't show where it was hit, I'm guessing it was a bit far back for a lung shot. I could make the same shot with a Savage. :)

So you could have shot a closer bull but the pack out was too hard and you just didn’t want to put in the effort. Then you shoot at 1023 yards and you were only a couple feet from a road? But you had to shoot him again? Then you boast about it? Do you consider yourself a hunter or just a shooter?

Was told to get a bull under 5x5 but decided to drop a 6x6 LMAO

Unethical as fuck. Why do you let an elk suffer like that? Stop shooting animals at that distance! It’s a fucking disgrace!

Honestly though if you guys would have shown the terminal damage and the remains of the bullets, that would have been a better!

Great shot!

Nice shot brother! Keep up the good work. You got a bunch of people pissed off at you on here for being able to do something they can't. Maybe if some of these people watched this video on something bigger than a phone they could see the impact. I bet half of the people on here complaining about this "not being real hunting" can't stay on target at 250 yards. The 7mm PRC is an amazing round. I watched a guy on here hit a 20 inch target with a 7mm PRC from just over 3500 yards, amazing video y'all should check it out. He might have taken 15 shots with a 10 mph to 15 mph wind change. He was within 10 inches of the target on every shot accept the first 2 or 3 shots, and those were just a little low. I was amazed at how accurate that round can be in the right hands.

👍👍👍👍🎯💯 I wish RU-vid didn't monetize videos of people harvesting their game‼️ I like watching the field dressing and the pack out portion of the hunt‼️

Evidently that combo doesn't produce enough energy to cleanly take a Elk at that range? I'm not sure I would have published this video either. No animal should suffer because of publicity or politics! Love the sevens but you need a 26 or 28 inch barrel to really get the necessary ballistics from the prc 7 to justify that far a shot.

“With this expensive rifle you can wound game from a 1000yds too!” - past 500yds there’s exponential bullet drop and an exponential sliding scale of ethics.

What was the 2nd kill shot distance because thats the official distance...not the 1023 yard shot!

You’ve got to be kidding me- As a lifelong hunter I am embarrassed that you would put this out. You could have gotten closer and made a more reliable, more ethical shot, but you decided to “test your cartridge”? You should be ashamed of yourselves.

Every time you shoot at an animal you risk a non fatal injury. Well unless the elk is glued to your backstop and you are using a lead sled at 50 yards at your local gun range...... Do not try that! I practice at 600 yards. If I had a 7mm PRC I would practice at 1000.

7 rem mag can also. Chip shot!

5 point management hunt?? Looks like a 6x6 and you stated it was. How does that square?

Love that Leica optic.

With those specs. that is a 800 yard gun max. You never exceed a 1 sec. T.O.F., at 800 yards you only have 1500 ft/lbs. at 1950 fps. which is almost to slow for that bullet to expand. That was an extreme risk, could not see where you hit the animal. This is how we get so many unclaimed animals these days. A 30-378 with a 250 grain custom hunting bullet could almost do the job at 3200 fps. , at a 1000 yards you would have 2145 fps. 2500+ ft/lbs., and 1.14 sec. T.O.F., Which is pushing the T.O.F. truthfully. That was not an ethical shot, but I am glad you were able to recover the animal.

This is why more states will move towards 350 legend. 7mm PRC looks awesome to me and I will likely use one asmy go-to big game caliber. No hate on the round and no hate on the rifle. Looks quite nice. But if we hunters can’t self-regulate what reasonable distances are on shooting at game, then gov’t (rightfully) should step in. Regardless of his capabilities at punching holes in paper or hitting steel, this shot never should have been taken. Worse this is an advertisement to sell a rifle so that other would purchase the rifle in hopes of replicating this “hunt.” A lot of animals will get hurt because of this movement. A shame, too, because the bullets, overall cartridge design, and rifle are all top notch.

Love when hunters treat elk like a PRS match...maybe try stalking with a lever action 308.. that is hunting. Nice rifle. But 1000 yards too much can go wrong and you won't recover that Animal.

This is awesome! I want one to go with the two rifles I already have!

I see no reason to take that long of a shot on an animal. If you can’t work to cut that distance in half then in my opinion you’re not a hunter, you’re more of a shooter.

This doesn’t seem much like hunting to me. Certainly not my style.

Your video just injured alot of animals, you have alot of people watch your videos, now there going to think it's ethical to shoot at elk that far, not bad enough people taking shots at 6-700 yards, what happened to the skills of stalking & getting closer? Just because you can take those shots, don't mean you should 👎🏾

Why the 22 inch barrel? Don't we want to retain muzzle velocity?

He had him on the first shot! Everyone can shut the hell up. If your trained to make that type of shot then do it! But you guys dont know this person from adam so dont judge if you dont know the person

I am guessing a 7prc at 1023yards is like shooting a 7/08 at 5 or 600. How many times have you heard a 7/08 is not enough for elk.

Wow! Dead center at over 1000. That is unbelievable! Great shot John! Love the Fierce videos. Keep ‘em’ coming.

Shooting an animal past 500 yards seems more like target practice on live game and not really hunting and those that can’t stalk in closer range just don’t have the skills, good shot but 1000 yards just seems really unethical to shoot an animal at when not knowing what might happen down range

Nice 👍 👍 👍 👍

Shooting an elk at 1000 yards to 'field test our products'?? First, there is no need to field test a cartridge on an animal for Pete's sake. You know the ballistics and your bullet choice already, and know how it will perform. Second, is this what hunting is coming to?? Another 1000 yard shot on a beautiful animal resulting in a wounded animal and the host taking it all in stride?? If I am to be honest all these needless long range shots are all about ego and it disgusts me.

I wanted to see the terminal performance of the eldx at that range. I'm interested in it compared to a berger vld

You used the same song that Matt’s off road recovery uses

What a rifle I'm have to get me one and amazing shot

1023 or 650 whatever you to go with

Not even hunting. Pathetic. I can shoot 1200 yds. I would never dream of shooting anything past 400 yds because it's not ethical. All gun. No hunt. Pathetic and everything that is wrong with hunting in 2022

when will the 7mm PRC rifles be available?

I’ve done that with 308, 190 nosler accubond long range doing about 2600

What happened with the bullet?

You didn't "Hit him good", you wounded him and he suffered until you shot him again a long time later at 650 yards. This is an irresponsible video to post.

Perfect example of why you should not take those kinds of long range shots. You hit the animal then walked around for who knows how long before taking a second shot to finish the job. That is the definition of an unethical shot. Do not do that, folks. Shameful.

I'm probably gonna catch a lot of flack for this buuut. I don't think rifles with turrets should be legal to hunt with. So many valid points brought up in previous comments.

You can't get closer than a thousand yards you must be the worse hunter in America

Wow!!! Amazing shot.!!! Congratulations on your hunt. Doing it the FIERCE way.!!!

Great hit brother!👍👍

Piss poor first shot. Mid body and bottom of belly. Not a great advertisement guys, you bring bad publicity. I do long range myself, so I'm not knocking the sport.

I've been itching to buy one, but when I can't get ammo, the rifle is useless

Here’s my deal with Hornady rounds out of my 7mm rem mag, they never drop animals… I’m always having to track blood for another 50-100yards. I decided to switch over to Federal Berger rounds, shot my first buck of the season last weekend (my largest Florida buck ever) , I swear to god it dropped him right in his track at 550 yards. In my opinion, hornady is so worked up with just creating new rounds for no reason and focusing so much on how far their rounds can go….

There's no way that first bullet had a full pass thru that's what I'm saying

The 7 PRC does not have enough energy to ethically kill an elk at that distance. No company or person should ever attempt to shoot or in this case test their rifle and round on an animal at that distance. I can’t believe they put this out for the public to see. It sends the wrong message about hunting in attempt to advertise a product with no regard to hunting ethics.

Yay, we're target shooting at 1000 yards. This is not hunting, this was just testing on wildlife. A real hunter would have stalked that elk.

Can we see what happened to the bullet?

What’s the point of the Camo? Lol😂

1000 yards on elk is UNETHICAL AF....

If your a hunter you should be able to sneak up on them! It’s unethical to shoot at something that far away

If you shoot at any animal at 1000 yards that isn't already wounded you are not an ethical person. Even if you can hit a dime at twice that distance. To much can go wrong and the animals don't deserve to suffer so you can stroke your ego. I have found to many lost animals. There are so many factors you have no control over. I am impressed by those who can hit steel at extreme range (I 'm not to bad myself) but if you have any respect for the animals you hunt stop it!!!

That's a hell of a shot! Nice job good bull!

So the CF barrels are legit? I'm still little nervous about them. Might stick to all steel. Idk

No point in paying 7mm PRC prices when 7 mag does the same job for much less. Before anybody starts randomly arguing with my point, ballistics, etc, look up the video of the Gunwerks 7 mag stoning a huge bulk at 1200 yards.

What does that rifle weight all up scoped and suppressed? Thanks

Shooting, not hunting.

Great shot, but that is not hunting. That is shooting. Hunting is to get close before shooting it.

What bullet 175 eldx or 180 eldm or other?

It took 2 shots to put down the elk? How many elk did y’all have to shoot at to get that video. Next time y’all just Hail Mary shots from the road take a cheytac or 300 Norma. Not sure what this video proved other then not to buy or recommend fierce firearms.

All in the name of marketing a new cartridge.

Eldm would be a far better choice at that distance.

Thought they had big bull up there?

What a nice hunt

What scope are you using?

Two shots and definitely a 6x6 🤣

Boomyah from downtown.

Hey John, im considering buying a Twisted Rage in 7mm PRC ive been trying to find videos on how they recoil with the brake could u tell me what it would compare to say a 270 win or 3006 with the brake on the 7 PRC? Is the side port brake reduce recoil more then the Radial Brake?

Nice! Who makes that digital scope level??

Many calibers can do that non lethal 1000yd shot, way to support unethical practices.

sweet video!! Cant wait to order my CT Rival!!!

Great vid! Is that utah？

Awezome, what scope are you using?

Elk are amazingly tough critters. You people giving crap for him putting two shots into it clearly haven't hunted elk long. You can place a perfect shot in a bull from 100 yards and the thing will go a long ways sometimes. If it's still standing and you have the chance to put another one in him do it.

There are a lot of trash talkers on here, first off, he knows the rifle and he was confident in his shot, most talking like they wouldn’t take that shot, that’s absolutely right because most ppl can’t shoot that far, they don’t have a place to practice that type of distance, most go to a 100 range and might shoot out to 3-5 hundred yards, so to knock on a guy that take can take that type of long range shot and make it hit is great, people just know your limits that’s all, GREAT JOB on a great Bull Elk!!!

6.9 lbs with the suppressor??

When did hunters become so gear obsessed? I shooot several 7mm rifles, but would NEVER try a shot like that while hunting. I am a hunter... not a sniper. I am disgusted.

A pass through with the eldx? Cmon. That eldx bullet sucks.

So, you are now shooting at the fives, 'cus there ain't any sixes? 'Cus ya'll shot out all the sixes. What next? the fours for the fives? and then the does? What's your strategy, exactly? I like 7mm - nice and flat and good. But how do you manage the game? The animals?

Let’s make that give away a 7PRC ! Come on now haha

7 PRC is NOT a 1000 yd Elk cartridge. Look up the energy at 1000. This type of "hunting" hurts the entire sport. Show us where the shot really hits??? Way too many variables at play at that range, and I say that as a long range shooter. Yes practice on steel at 1000, but our game animals deserve respect. Practical range for most shooters is 4-500 tops.

Thats not even hunting! u should be ashamed of yourself

300prc would have sealed the deal in one shot at 1000 yards.

I didn’t know we were allowed to hunt native land it’s the same as private

Is that a zeiss scope? What size

Awesome video and awesome bull. Oh yea! Nice shot as well. Mescalero Apache

Keep your 1000 at the range and hunt. Encouraging this type of hunting is not good. Impressive but need to not cool.

Brag about your rifle’s long range capabilities on steel. Do not be unethical hunters.

You need to come to the Bull Elk capital of the world. WMAT or SCAT!

Looks unethical plus you said they want to cull out 5x5 so you shoot a 6x6?

First you call this a spot and stalk hunt. Then you shoot at an animal at 1023 yards from just outside your car. You really showed us all your great stalking and hunting skills. This has nothing to do with hunting at all. This is only target shooting at long distances at live animals, to brag about your shooting skills and to sell a gun. You could have done that by shooting on a steel plate instead of making an animal suffer. This was not an enemy you were sniping at either, were shots like this and longer, is totally acceptable and often wanted. If you misjudge the wind, calculate the shot wrongly or don't make a perfect shot at a steel plate or an enemy, it doesn't matter that much. If that happens when you shoot at an animal and you make it suffer, it matters very much. Anyone trying to talk about skill level, knowing your limits, knowing about long range shooting or even extreme long range shooting, they can just save their time and not write about it. Any ethical hunter that is a very experienced long range shooter/sniper, would never shoot at an unwounded animal at that distance as he/she very well knows the high risks of wounding that animal and making it suffer. If you really wanted to hunt and stalk, you could have easily stalked much closer to that elk and made an ethical first shot kill. You are no hunter at all. This is nothing but disgusting. Shooting at an elk at this distance, filming it and then putting it on YT tells me all about you as persons and it is for sure not pretty.

You're not a hunter.... don't confuse yourself.