I asked a similar question in different ways over the years while I was associated with D&DH. What I learned was that the average shot at a whitetail was under 80 yards.
Personally, I was well under 60 yards average until the last few years. Recently, we've been taking longer shots. My longest is 175 yards, and the longest at our camp was set this year by my son: 230 yards. It's not that we're trying one way or the other. It's just that it's darn hard to find a venue where a 200-yard shot is possible. The change to longer shots is due to a gradual shift from treestands in deep woods to ground blinds overlooking pastures.
