Here in PA, there are over 450,000+ deer shot every year. While I don't have hard data to back up my opinion but I am willing to guess that 90-95% are shot under 150yds.
I have killed critters so close that I probably burned some hair on the hide clear out to 615yds. In addition to having a rifle built for such hunting, a caliber capable of humane kills, rest, rangefinder, ballistic knowledge on the rifle, and a spotter. I have a self imposed limit on my range under a different range of conditions. This limit is to insure that I limit the variables to a wounded animal. I am dead accurate out the 850yds but it would have been a pop shot on the critters that have been out to that range had I pulled the trigger. Not going to do it.
