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What's the longest shot on a Whitetail you've ever taken over X amount of years you've been hunting?

Whitetail - 245 yds

Blacktail - 285 yards (at least three times over ten or so years on the same little abandoned spur road in Tyee country).

Mule deer - a bit over 450 yards ( there was a draw in between). Last time I tried it. The bullets weren't expanding and the deer died way too slow for my taste. Other than that not much over 200 yards.

I have been killing deer since I was 12. I am 73. I took a couple of years off while in the Marines and the year I got divorced (I kept the kids). No hunt this year also. Hip replacement.

On a whitetail? 166yds with a shotgun with open sights.

Big game animal? 710yds on a wolf. Didn't recover it. I underestimated the range by 60yds and hit it low. Tracked it for about a mile but lost the trail. Slowed him up a bit though.

I have hunted whitetails in the Appalachian Mountains for 37 years and killed around 150 or so deer with vertical bow, crossbow, muzzleloader and centerfire rifles with the longest shot being 206 yards (I was hunting an old buck that liked to bed in a 3yr old clearcut) ....95% of the deer i have killed over the years have been at ranges well under 100yds. I have buddies that shoot deer at ranges out to 600yds but shooting a deer in another zip code never really appealed much to Me, I like the challenge of actually getting close to My quarry, I consider that much more sport than picking a deer off from a 1/4 mile or more away but to each his own .......Good hunting....Hb

Why just whitetails?

WT- 302
Mule deer-416

185 yards.

I'm coming up on 40 years.

Until 2009, I'd never shot one beyond 80. I normally hunted from treestands and used the same stands for both rifle and bow. As a result, I had some rifle shots inside 5 yards. My average is still inside 80 yards. In 2009 I added a ground blind that overlooked a pasture we came to call "The Garden of Stone." There's a tennis court-sized place in the middle where I can reliably plug a late-season deer. The GofS got its name from my habit of putting a rock next to each carcass. Pretty soon there was quite a pile of rocks out there and deer were falling on previous years' markers. The shots to the GofS are between 150 and 180 yards.

When I was doing the pro-staffing gig, I tried every year to canvas people about this sort of thing. The average deer is shot by the average hunter is within 80 yards.

Hunted deer since 1967. About 65 deer killed. Kept records of armament used and range, either measured, paced off, or rangefinder.
Longest was 187 yards, then 165 yards (308 Win and 250 Savage Ack Imp) when I decided to try some ‘long range’ hunting on a 50’ wide right of way through a central Georgia woods. It was fun and I might be hunting it some more if not three hours away.
Average range of ALL kills is 36 yards. I have used the vertical bow almost as much as rifles so that explains the short range.

125 yard in 42 years of hunting. Only one over 100 yards.

In 31 years my longest shot on a whitetail is 201yds. I made it with an Encore muzzleloader. I’ve killed more under 30yds than I have over 100yds.

All 37 years of my whitetail hunting has been in the northwoods, I think my longest shot was around 170.

719 yards on a beautiful 8 pointer. We have large ag fields down this way. Several deer in the 500-550 range, a few > 600. I choose my shots carefully. Standing broadside, zero wind, sandbag rest in my stand, capable rifle....and do a ton of LR shooting all year long on my range. I don’t consider myself a long range shooter like the yahoos on tv though...those opportunities presented themselves and the situations were favorable. When presented with a shot opportunity at long range I may take a shot in one out of ten situations or less.

Just under 400 yards.

Don't wish to repeat it.

Over 30 years here. All eastern hunting. Approx 160-180 yards.

Deer: 380yds
Hog: 410yds

Been hunting 31 years. I keep steel plates at 200/300/400 and know my drop dope. I need to apply it from time to time. Average shot here is probably around 170yds, but things can and do happen in the 300-400 range in fields or on pipelines.

Never paid much attention, at least not enough to measure the distance, 99.9% of the deer I kill and see killed are inside of 200 yrds i am sure i have killed a few out there over 200 yrds, but don't care. I am hunting deer not bragging rights.

We kill about 400 deer every year, some times more some times less, to control our numbers, and to protect our habitat.


Rio7

I've never killed a whitetail. Blacktail, 385 yards with a 375 H&H. Use enough gun.

603 yards on a west Texas mule deer. Browning 1885 in 7 RM with the 160 grain Speer Grand Slam hand load. Unluckiest deer on the entire ranch.

200 yards

15 years here in Canada, we hunt Boreal forest, so longest is 115 yards, most 75 or less.

458 yds. muley buck.