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About 12 feet, maybe less. The only time I've ever cussed a scope on a hunting gun. Despite being pretty well hid in a brush blind I didn't want to even breath let alone fiddle around with a stiff power ring. I remember just looking down the side of the barrel and mashing the trigger. Blew his shoulders out with a 240 XTP and 100 grains of FFg as he turned just enough broadside to walk around me toward the doe feeding on the slope up behind me.