With the rare snow here in Georgia and the reflected light caused by it I had very even light from my porch toward the bird feeder and pasture to the south. Usually the birds are backlit when in this area. Anyway it allowed me to break out the 500mm and play for awhile Friday.
Nice photo! I love it when you get close to big game animals even if it from a porch or animals that are use to people. The how doesn't matter much to me especially when I have the camera.
I saw what I believe to be the FB add that would take you to the fake site today and then a little farther down my feed there was a Sierra add that was worded very similar.
The 130 gr BT is all I've used on deer from the 270. Those shot behind the shoulder have been complete pass throughs and usually run from 30 -60 yards. I have also shot a few intentionally with a high shoulder shot and dropped each in there tracks. I have also shot one, a buck weighing maybe...
This was really just a quick "grab" shot. I was working on building a new mailbox stand after someone took out our brick mailbox. My wife came out on the porch and said "We have a rainbow" so sawdust and all I grabbed the Canon 6D and 70-200 lens (the newer 5DmkIV had the 500 mm on it for any...
These were taken with the Canon 5D mark IV and the first gen Canon 500mm f4 L IS with the Canon 1.4 Extender.
If you go back several pages you can see some bear images I did with the Canon 6D and the Sigma 150-600mm lens.