Home Forums Hunting & Shooting General Big Game Farthest shot that you have taken to bring down a buck?

Last year and it was 228 yards.

Furthest WT buck shot with a rifle - about 75 yards. Most have been taken with archery equipment. I must be dumb or something, because I just can't seem to find mature bucks standing out in the open around here.

In some parts of the world, "Out in the Open" is all there is.

I haven't ever been a fan of long range shots due to variables that can complicate the shot. I did shoot this buck at 800 measured yards with this 30-378 and a Schmidt and Bender long range varmint scope. It was early in the day, the weather was clear and no wind.. The bullet out of that 30-378 was travelling at varmint velocity and got that distance in relatively no time...

60 yards and that was a guesstimate. Everything else well inside of 50.

Ranged at 648 yards with the angle comp on, using a 7mm rem mag loaded with 162gr hornady bullets. 2 years earlier in the same place I shot one at a ranged 600 yards, with a 300 WSM using 165gr Hornady btsp. Both 1 shot bang flops. Good solid heart lung shots. Both shots required right around 42 clicks up (approx 10 moa) on the scope..

I don't shoot bucks anymore, but have shot does out to 430 yards. My longest ever is 443 yards on a cow elk. I really don't like shooting past 300, but can do it. I don't seem to have problems getting closer and most of my deer are killed under 200 yards. Hunting elk in Wyoming, well, that is a different story.

I've only shot two bucks past 300 yards in 29 years of hunting. Both of those were on pipeline or powerline right of ways. This one was the furthest at close to 400 yards, back when we had to pace things off. I was holding "on air" with a 270win shooting the 130NBT at 3,100 and zeroed at 250yds. He fell right there. I want to say I was 16 years old. My box stand is a little light-colored square speck framed by gray timber on the right side of the cleared line.



I try to be ready for shots out to 500yds, but I only hunt a few spots these days where I can see past 375 or so. When I do see good bucks at 400+ on right of ways, they are usually only visible for a few seconds as they cross the line.

Bear - roughly 200 yards
Deer - 637 yards
Elk - 450 yards
Antelope 526 yards

I've been getting into shooting long for the last couple years. I have a 1k yard range that I can shoot from the deck of my house, so I shoot out to 1k several times a week. It has been interesting to begin to learn the science/art of dealing with the wind and perfecting my form. Since having a couple of purpose built long range hunting rifles put together, I have found that shooting long is really just a matter of knowing what your rifle will due under all conditions possible and having good data. While some guys seem to be reluctant to admit that long range hunting can be an ethical endeavor, I've seen plenty of guys that are worse shots at 200 yards than I am at 1k. I look at it as another tool in my bag of tricks that will allow me to take the animal I want when there is no way to get closer. The first animal I killed with my 338 LM was an antelope buck at 50 yards - Because that's how far away he was when I topped the hill... But if he had been 750 yards away I could have killed him just as easily.

225 yards I figure and that was an absolute fluke. I'd heard a volley of shots a ways away and a bunch of does with an 8 point buck bringing up the rear came running across a distant hillside. If I don't shoot I'll never get anything I figured, so I took a poke and hoped. The buck hunched at the shot and I had blood in the snow when I got there. A couple hundred yards later I jumped him up and finished things. That 7 RM had broken his sternum with the first shot. Normally you can't see the deer for the trees here and the kind of bucks that I'm after are so paranoid that they like more cover instead of less. Under about 75 yards is the norm here and I've never had to hold high on any deer.

I hunt mainly western Washington and the pine-covered hills of eastern Washington.
For that reason, most of my shots are no longer that 200 yards, and usually between 75 and 150.

Longest was approx 325 yards about 15 years ago... Wasn't a really tough shot, as the buck was standing broadside and staring at me on a hillside across a ravine.
If that buck had been quickly on the move, would have let him go and continued to look for a better opportunity.

My longest shot (532 yards) was a cross the hill shot with a 300 RUM and Zeiss, my spotter had ranged it after we had closed as close as available cover would allow. The buck tumbled down the hill at the shot. I hunted a ridge top pasture field for close to 20 years that overlooked the river bottom crops. I had set up several landmarks at known yardages and killed 6 or 7 bucks at over 400 yards over the years shooting either a 7mm RM or 25-06. I no longer hunt that area, the last three bucks I have killed have been under 50 yards.

Longest shot I have ever taken at any animal is 255 yards (measured by range finder) using a Ruger 77V in 6mm Rem. shooting prone off a bipod. Bullet hit exactly where intended tight behind the front shoulder. I like hunting, but when we set up in our hunting spots it is with the intent of being close as long-range hunting is not our focus or goal.

With a range finder, 372 yard with a .257 Roberts.

Without a range finder, about 440 yards. I held head high on that doe with the vertical wire tight behind the shoulder, shooting a 300wm with a 150 grain bullet. Hit her about 3" above the sternum, low heart shot.

I hunt a lot of huge corn and bean fields, and something that I have noticed, is that deer hit over 200 yards seem to drop at the shot for me more often, than deer shot within 100 yards. Couldn't say why, but over 200 yard bang flops seem to be the norm.

437 yards at magic time,1 hour before legal shooting time ends!
Ranged it with a Leupold range finder and shot it with a 300 win mag with a Leupold VXlll 6-20.
I dialed the scope to 440 and he dropped at the shot.
I stood next to a guy that shot an elk at a tad over 700 yards with a similar scope but a 7 mm Mag Remington 700.
1 shot kill.
There was a time I never shot over 200 yards but with the right equiptment and practice practice practice it can ethicly be done.
DS

168 yards measured with rangefinder - from a treestand across the hayfield to the woods edge - nothin but lungs!.

Now the closest I've killed a buck is 2 ft from the muzzle - measured with the gun barrel. I was standing on a boulder and the deer walked right along side it.165 gr. spire point between the shoulder blades.

62 yards with a ruger 77/44 240gr Hornaday xtp hp bang flop

260 yds for me, about 210 for the wife. Both of those came from an elevated hunting house with solid shooting rests.

My name is Dr. Ford and I shot a 385 pound buck jackalope at 2,318 yards offhand with a .22lr in a blue one piece bathing suit 35 years ago while dry humping Dick Durbin. I think I had a scope but if any of you were there and could fill in the blanks, I would appreciate it.

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Jerry

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