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

Right there with you. I could have killed everything with my 357 pistol in the past decade even though I’m set up for longer distance. Primary hunting rigs are 6.5 Creedmoor and 280 AI both with SWFA fixed 6 MOA quad and 20 MOA rails. Just in case I guess. I have ELDX’s and other high BC bullets for each but all shots last year were within scorching distance. Good news is all that stuff works just as well up close as it does at distance. Although I’m switching to partitions this year. They have a tendency to hold together a wee bit better at close up and personal distance and can reach far enough for me. No lost game with ELDX ‘s but they sure blew to hell when they hit bone. Now do I practice and shoot at distance? As much as I can. There’s always a chance at seeing a dandy across a 40 acre clear cut or down a power line. Last year I eye balled some deer about 600 yards at the bottom of a gorge. Glad none were good shooters or it would have been a good poke for me and a hell of a drag uphill. Thinking there would have been a lot of rope and s winch involved.

If I'm able to hunt my friend's out of commission dairy farm...100%. Average shot there is around 200 yds.

Most other places in my area 50 yds and under.

Dan

Great avatar. Nothing better than boobs and cold PBR.

I’m about 50%. Depending on what I’m chasing.

In the last 10 years 0%.

But if I recall properly over the last 47 years it's been about ZERO.

I’ve made one shot at 350, I think there have been 2 others that were beyond 200, and another 2 maybe 3 past 100. I’d say my average shot is around 70 yards.

GWB

I grew up in Kentucky and I think I made one shot over 150 yards in my first 30 years. In the last 20 years I have been in TX, then NM and back in TX. About 20% over 150 yards, 10% of that at over 300.

If you need help with the piglets, I have two sons, age 10 and 11 that would be happy to help.

Dave

For the last several years hunting Coues deer in Arizona, all of mine have been over 200. It is the nature of the beast with the steep terrain and the deer themselves. The closest one was 275 yards. Before that hunting mule deer, elk, etc where i grew up it in Northern Utah ot was a mix of up close to 500 yards, just depended on where I was hunting that day.

Since being able to switch from slug guns and handguns to rifles.... 0%

After years of watching game I couldn't reach, wishing I had a rifle, the laws were changed and rifles made legal. Since then I haven't shot anything that I couldn't have taken with a handgun. Of course.

Wow,

never expected the quantity or quality of the responses to my question.

Thanks all for the responses.

Most informative!

Best,

GWB

More than likely, zero percent.
Ohio has been a shotgun state since the dawn of time (more or less) and even with a 12ga. Sabot slug 150yrds is pushing it.
On the other hand, I've had squirrels run across my boot toes, without knowing I was there, and I've been stepped on by white tail deer (hopped a fence I was leaning against).
I don't call, rattle, or make noise of any kind. Sometimes you can almost reach out and touch 'em.
I have averaged 3-4 white tails per year for the last 40 years.
I will have a bit more range available with the AR15 .450bushmaster. (Effective range is 300 yrds.)

I'd say it will depend on what I'm hunting and where. Overall I'd guess that 150 yards would probably come out average, or perhaps it is even somewhat less than 150 yards. I've shot at inanmate targets out to 1000 yards with a rifle, but apart from the odd few goats in mountain country I don't recall any game shot at at more than about 400. In fact it would be rare that I'd feel compelled to reach past 300. I prefer to get closer, and enjoy the challenge of getting really close, which is a big part of why I'm enjoying using a bow lately.

I've also hunted cover where you really won't get opportunities at any sort of distance. Shooting pigs in lignum swamps for example, you'd rarely be able to even see one more than maybe 30 - 40 yards away. Other than pigs I've grabbed by the leg and killed with a knife while dogs kept them busy, I've shot them at distances close enough to leave powder burns. I've also shot deer at less than 20 yards more than once, and I think all the buffalo I've ever shot were at under 100 yards - some well under. The close encounters tend to be more memorable than the long range ones, to me.

Longest shot/kill is 140 yds....twice.

Same

Your 257 Weatherby will cover that iffy 1%.

Probably 3-5%. Longest 440. However, I'm ok with having it and not needing it so that I don't find myself needing it and not having it. Then again, I don't mind an extra 8 oz on my rifle. Maybe some of you should trim 8 oz off your ass if weight is a problem, wild to me how the "manly" thing to do on here is whine about scopes because they weigh 28 oz instead of 20 oz.

I jest I jest.

Sorta.

(Ducking)

My ass isn’t in my hand all day.....

Take a big piss and you'll lose 8 ounces, but it won't make the rifle feel any better in your hands.

While hunting in Alaska about 3 in 4 animals have been 150 yards or farther for me. When hunting whitetails in the Southeast U.S. about 1 in 10 were further than a 150 yards.

geedubya it was a good topic for a thread . I thought their was a lot of info about were different people hunt