Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Deer Hunting Have any experienced deer hunters here never really taken a long shot?

I suppose the numbers are up around a couple hundred and the longest in 60 years has bees 263 yards. My average is probably about 125 yrds though, which is high for here. Somewhere more than 1/4 of them have been really close. The last four years none more than 20 yards because I am depopulating the neighborhood with a crossbow to the tune of four per year. I tend to set up deer stands for rifle hunting where most of the shots are beyond 100 yards, but we have a lot of deer and I get to pick and choose so I an usually shooting 100-200 yards, close enough to put the bullet exactly where I want it.