Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Deer Hunting non bragging page,, what is the aveage shot you take(distance)

Do you do many Pronghorn hunts? Not saying that short shots are not available, but if you hunt Pronghorns much, they will show you quickly what 300 yards looks like. Most of the time there is nothing but the occasional sage brush between us.

I would say my average Mule deer shot is at about 175 yards, whitetail at closer to 80. Antelope is closer to the mule deer, sometimes its 150 and often its more.

Whitetail with bow 4-25 yards, average around 14 yards.

Whitetail with rifle 7-370 yards, average around 120+ yards. I've been hunting big ag-fields in north MO for 14 years or more so I am set up on wide open bottom land. This year's deer were shot at 310, 240, and 300yrds. I knew the shots would be like that when I decided to hunt that piece of land.

The thing about this type of hunting land, is that you typically get shots at inside 40 yards, or over 170 yards. Not much in between. They are either in the line of cover you are in, or out in the distance.

Longest on Whitetail 90 plus yards, Shortest was 20 feet.

my average shot is between 80-150 yards id say, shot some less than 50, and some around 300..but most are around 100 yards

My youngest son took his first deer at 160 yds. and his last deer at 10 yds. My oldest boy took his first deer at 50 yds and the last deer was 350 yds.
My first deer I ever shot was 80 yds. and the last one was 100 yds.
whelennut

Depends on whether I'm here..Hangun shot to 150 yds



Or here..hangun shot to about as far as you can shoot...most of my deer are taken from 35yds to 350 depending on what I'm shooting.Can't wait till my Sharps arrives will be using it on some long range shots from this stand!! I've been told by ET that a 45/110 will shoot around the curvature of the earth!!

i hunt missouri and depending on where i hunt shots are anywhere from 20 yrds to 600 yrds (i can't do 600)but 90% of all my deer taken so far have been between 60-100 yrds. i have a couple deer though i took at 200 yrds and a few at about 130 or so but due to my deer hunting the first 25 yrs in hard ozark mountain terrain, shots where never over 100. northern Missouri is a whole different planet though.

Most of my shots on whitetails are ~50 yard. "Average" would get skewed by the occasional outlier but the vast majority are between 50-75 yards.

My closest shot was 7 yards and my longest was 497 yards.
My average shot is some where between 75-100 yards.

Average has to be less than 150 yards.

If I throw out the highest and the lowest about 225 yard.

My average on deer is all messed up shortest is 6 inches longest is near 400 yrds with several in the 25 ft to 75 ft range and several in the 75 yrd to 125 yrd range. On elk one at 20 ft, one at 50 ft and one at 70 yrds with a 50 cal muzzle loader.

6 inches, ok ,,i need to hear that story!!,, please,, did you think you missed?lol

Average for me would be inside 200yds.
G

It was a damp windy day and I was moving slow into the wind through a thick grove of head high young fir trees. As I started to break out of the trees into a small clearing I looked down to see where my next step would be and the toes of my boots were about a foot from the back of a 3 by 4 whitetail buck that was intent on watching the far side of the clearing. I verry slowly turned my rifle to the back of his head took the safety off and shot from the hip. No meat lost on that buck. I thought he had been shot by someone else but there was not even a scratch on him. Just a once in a life time day and I had no clue that he was there.

Average for me with firearm kills has been about 70 yards.

Arizona is big, open country. You can't close the distance sometimes.

My average shot distance is about 250 yards. The shortest distance for my over 30 years of hunting here was 110 yards. Longest was 624 yards.

I try to make it such that its not over about 150 but it doesn't always work, but since most of what I shoot is does and trash bucks, I can generally make it work out to 100 or less. Of course I have run out way on past that now and then.

20 to 40 yards for deer, elk and bear in W. OR for me.

My dad has joked he had to push deer away with the buttstock before he could shoot them

I hunt in the woods of Minnesota. I would say average is about 40-50 yards. The shots generally dont take great marksmenship, but on the other hand, many goof them up.