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200 yards is a fairly standard shot for any deer hunter and is not particularly difficult with modern tech. You don't need to have been a special forces sniper to take it anyone with even cursory experience could provided they had a decent rifle. Pretty much everyone I know who shoots (hundreds of people) could make that hit.
I would in fact suggest that it being a neck shot indicates the possibility they weren't actually a particularly great shot. A head shot is a much larger target, a neck shot is half the size, I would theorise that it was a headshot attempt that miscalculated the distance and the neck impact is the bullet drop over that distance (ie they aimed for a 100m impact point and it was actually 200m or whatever the correct distance was).
HOWEVER
Taking that shot and getting away indicates a level of professionalism / planning well above that of the average deer hunting Fudd.
I was actually thinking he got less drop than expected.
To your point, most things are pretty flat under a few hundred yards, but if they zeroed at an indoor range or something, hob can make those numbers weirder than you'd think.
Still though, center mass, and like you said in the wind. Which is pretty impressive.
But who the heck would site a rifle in at just 25 yards? It was in Utah, right? There'd be tons of places where you could shoot a rifle to 100 yards at least. Most of those indoor gun ranges that don't have anything over 25 yards don't allow rifles.
Yeah, I was just saying my first thought, whistling in the dark. OP was sort of right on the money, I thought. I was just saying that my first thought was super similar. Probably says more about me than anyone else lol.
It sort of speaks to a good shooter at known distances, which made me think of urban ranges as I'm in an urban area.