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Longest was 120 yards . Around here you seldom see farther than that. Most I have killed have been under 80 and a lot under 40. I had two does come up and sniff my popup last year while I was sitting there smoking a cigar and drinking coffee. Neither spooked , just sniffed and one walked off while the other nibbled on a vine awhile. There were six other does with them but they were always 30-40 yards away. In the end they regrouped and all left together without a snort.

how many have you shot at 600 to 1000 yards? out of every one I have shot at mid to long range I have never not saw the bullet impact the deer through the scope, have taken 54 beyond 450 yards and assisted others for around 30 more.

Enough one shot kills past 600 and several past 1,000 with the one I almost lost at 700 to know I am not inteterested in killing game at those distances anymore.
I do all my long range shooting on targets with sling'n'irons these days .
I know many that do not share my options howevr and that's okay
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176, with a .54 Hawken. 250 XTP over 100 gr 777. Overall, hunted since 1967. Over 50 years.

348 long paces with a .30-06 and 150 gr. Hornady Spirepoint handload. Longest with a muzzleloader was 220, using 260 gr. .45 jhp and 90 gr. Goex 2f.

I’m definitely not saying everyone should be launching bullets at game at extended range… whatever that means to each shooter is up to them. But from a solid rest (which obviously is needed to shoot deer or anything else at much further than a football field under field conditions)I almost always see my bullets impact. Depending on the recoil generated the range at which I have time to recover and actually seethe bullet impact varies. A heavy rifle in 6mm shooting 105’s I almost always see the bullet impact. Out of a suppressed 300 win mag shooting 230 bergers if the deer is closer than about 600 yards I miss the action in the scope but beyond that range I have time to “get back on target” and see my impacts. I shoot as much as my schedule will allow. I practice with my rifles and make SURE I know where they’re sighted in and where they hit at longer ranges. The deer (3 or 4 total) I’ve missed in the last three years were all due to getting bad hits from my range finder. Yes, I missed. Yes it was my fault. Luckily those deer all were missed cleanly. I also take buddies and their sons hunting and have seen missed deer and wounded deer at 50-150 yards with scoped 270’s 243’s and 308’s. From solid rests out of a box. Long range means different things to different people. If a hunter has good equipment and knows what he’s doing 600yards or more doesn’t seem like long range anymore.

Rifle- whitetail at 683 with a .243 and it fell dead. Killed several 450-600 with it.
Muzzleloader- 215 yds with a .45 using 195gr Barnes and 150gr pellets.

70 yards tops. Just the nature of the are I hunt in the Huron National forest consisting of 3 beaver ponds and the associated slashing within a square mile and a half of each other. Also happened to be the biggest whitetail I have killed.

297 yards in 50 plus years of deer hunting. That was in 2004 with my 300 Wby.

Been rifle hunting since 1992

325 yards, Model 99T scoped 300 savage

My longest shot was just a tad over 400 yards. Was shooting from a prone supported position. The buck had been spooked by two hunters who had not a clue he had been laying in some tall grass. I never would have seen him had it not been for them. He ran away from them and me and stopped long enough to look back. His body was facing away from me and he looked back directly over his rump. I centered the crosshairs on his chin. At the shot he dropped like a rock. The bullet entered directly between the front shoulder blades breaking the spine. He was very much alive when I got to him and quickly finished him off. I was 27 years old and extremely fit. After dressing that deer that was the most painful deer drag I have ever made. I vowed from that point forward, 100 yards or less was my goal.

My longest deer shot was on a Wyoming mule deer at 419 yards. I know it was 419 yards because he was running up a coulee and I was standing and on a Bog Pod tri and when he stopped, I asked my spotter with the range finder how far? He said 419. I knew from memory that my 300 Win Mag round sighted dead on at 200 would strike 17 inches low at 400. I held accordingly. No wind that I can remember. Bang. Dead.

Nothing really particularly amazing or skilled or lucky about the shot. I knew the range, I knew the gun, I knew the load and it's ballistics.

I was prepared.

Mine was a doe on a pipeline at 375 yards. My rifle was a Remington 742 in 30/06 that I had won when the band had a raffle and sold tickets. I handed loaded using the cheap Lee Loader, 165 gr Hornadys and 57 grains of 4350. The Remington would shoot quarter sized 3 shot groups at 100 yards with this load. I had good eyes and eye hand coordination back in my younger years. I also shot 3 positions rimfire competition and was ARNG battalion champ. I was sitting and used my sling. We were running Walker hounds and I knew the deer crossed at a certain bottom. Sure enuff, I heard the hounds and set up beforehand. A doe appeared, crossed to the other side and turned back to look towards the hounds. I took the shot and she lunged into the tree lines. By the time I got there, her 2 pursuers (the 2 Walker hounds) each had a hind leg. My long shot was the camp record. Had a cheap Weaver Marksman 4X scope.

Mine was a 7 point whitetail at 275 yds with a 6x6.8 SPC and 80 gr. TTSX

IDK. Pre-rangefinder, and it was on a cow caribou - a deer-sized critter. Caribou are frequently referred as "deer" by Eskimos, so I'm counting it!

The RU77V in 25-06 was loaded pretty hot (max or one grain under, IIRC) with 120 gr. Speers, and sighted in 5" high at 100, MOA

She was standing broadside, head, neck, and ears stretched upright, turned toward me. The first shot went into the hillside snow under her belly, not close enough to startle her. Putting the crosshairs just above her upright ears drilled her through both shoulder blades, the base of the bullet lodging in the far side blade, wind and range accounted for.

You do your own figuring - but I figured she was well over 500 yards.

The longest ranged shot I've made was with my M98 with heavy "sniper" barrel in 30-06, 150 grain Superperformance factory loads, going into an inch at 300 yards. IIRC, it was 443 yards. One shot and down, through both lungs.

The gun is capable of more, I am not.... and have no intention of pushing it past 500.

Both above caribou I was using a snowbmachine windscreen for my rest. Kept my arse warm too!

WT 110 yards. Much farther for BT

i shot a doe at 365+/- yards with a Rem m721 in 270 Win. i was a senior in high school and the rifle was my dad's friend, Charlie. i and Charlie were in his homemade tree stand that will fit 5 or 6 people. it also has walls and roof. Charlie tells me to hold(crosshairs) for the nose and shoot. so i did. it was shot behind the shoulder and exited the doe behind the shoulder. the doe was close to DRT or about 3 or 4 feet after the shot. i didn't have a laser range finder, it wasn't invented. the 365+/- yards is measured by by known distance, a locust pole fence with a strand of barbed wire was measured from the tree stand to be 350 yards. when i shot the deer, it was about 15+/- yards behind the locust fence.

the number of deer i have shot at ranges 200 -350 yards you could use both hands and have a couple fingers left over. 100 - 200 yards there is about 16 or 17 deer and under 100 yards i can't count how many deer i've shot.

732yds on a whitetail doe with the 16# 243AI/105 A-max I was using for F-Class @ the time.

562yds on a Mule Deer with a M70 SS Classic Fwt in 270Win in a Brown Precision stock shooting 140gn TSX. I had a bipod out front, my pack under the toe of the stock, very steady, LRF distance, 2-spotters, almost no wind, and a calm animal unaware of our presence.

Over 50+ years of deer hunting, longest shot was 104 yards with a Ruger 77/44. 40-60 yard shots are typical for Michigan deer hunting.

One year I was hunting a hay field up north and had deer out about 400 yards. M700 with a 7-08 heavy Kreiger barrel and Jewell trigger resting on a tripod and my butt on a stool inside a popup blind.. This shot would have required shooting past BIL in a blind on the edge of the field so I passed. A little later a mature whitetail head(long nose) appeared in the edge of my blind window about 20 yards out. I wasted no time on a spitting distance head shot with that long range rig. 1 1/2 yr old doe. If I had waited 10 seconds I would have had a crack at the larger older doe following.

125 yards down a skidder trail I was walking.