Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles What percentage of your shots on game are over 150 yds?

I label myself as a short range meat hunter. Due to the nature of the terrain and my desire to recover the critter for making meat, where I hunt, most shots are under 200 yds. I figure 98% of the stuff I kill, the range is 120 yds. and under, with a dozen or so kills at 300 yds., a couple at 400 yds. and my longest @ 590 yds.

With all the rage of long distance shooting, what has been your experience shooting game for meat, as opposed to varmint hunting or target shooting?

GWB

Yeah, After 34 years of hunting Whitetails I have killed over 150 deer and exactly 3 were over 150yds and none have been further than 200yds....The terrain I mostly hunt is thick timber with a few clearcuts but I can usually scout out a stand that will get me up close and personal with the buck I am after, for me that is the fun of the hunt.....I would get little satisfaction from sniping deer at great distance, I enjoy the hunt too much 👍.......Hb

I would say about half. I have a feeder 225 yards from stand. There is another feeder in the live oak tree just behind that dead pig standing at the bottom of the hill and another feeder a hundred yards behind me. Feeder is the green thing by an old stand way the hell down there.

A very small percentage over 150. Killed two caribou in Quebec, a moose and bear here, and a mule deer in Wyoming.

The last 3 deer I killed here didn’t add up to 70 yards total.

So far 0%. I don't see that changing soon.

Approximately 10%

I killed one deer close to 400 a few years ago. I shouldn't have shot that far under those conditions and was lucky to make a clean kill.

Everything else in all my 51 years,quite a few have been under 150 with likely 90% under 100.

I've killed a bunch of those under 50 yards with a rifle. I've killed a bunch on the move real close,like 20 yards and under.

I've shot 2 that fell within 10 feet of me. Thought both those were going to run over me. Dogs and men drives can be quite exciting.

Also predominantly a meat hunter. Thirty years of hunting White Tails in PA and KY, I've taken one WT at 166 long steps. All the rest (several dozen) inside 150 yards. The majority of those inside 100 yards.

Most of mine are shot between 7:00-8:00am. Hung in the barn, skinned, quartered, and hosed down by 10:00am. Hang as long as the temps allow, up to 4 or 5 days..

None of my rifle shots at deer have been taken at over 150 yards. I have hunted in 7 states under a variety of conditions and have been able to complete my kill shots at less than 150 yards. 30-30 is a keeper!

Sherwood

Zero.

But I shoot a lot of Whitetailed Steel and need turrets and high BC bullets. At least according to Hornady..

Where are all the 500 yard guys that need the 20 power scopes and 800 BC bullets.

Probably half of my deer each year are shot at 150yds or less. The other half are generally inside 300yds. Shots between 300 and 500 sometimes present themselves at some spots, so I need to be prepared at those locations.

I have a hunting but about 8 ft off the ground, have a great rest in it, and the deer always come out at 180 yrds, I built that stand 4 yrs ago, prior to that only ever one deer, since I've built the stand, over half.

2-4%.

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Don't think I've ever shot or shot at a critter past 150 yards. Not sure I'd be able to see it!

There is a difference between hunting and shooting.



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I’m not sure of the percentage. I quit counting at about 150 deer. Over 35 years of hunting and I’ve killed two deer that were a shade over 200 yards, and those were crossing hayfields/pastures between woodlots. All of my others average between 30-40 yards.

It’s hard to even see a deer much over 50 yards in the woods where I hunt, much less get a long shot at one.

I’d say around 20% of the deer I’ve killed have been over 150 yards.

The great majority of my shots are 200-400 yards. That is the nature of my hunting strictly because I hunt huge ag Fields here in SW GA. I do have a few short range stands and use those for bow hunting, hunting with my Garrand on Veterans Day, using my vintage lever actions and pistols & such.