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About 350 yds. across the neighbors farm fields is my longest. I hunt mixed farm and woods in northcentral Pa so I get some longer shots. Plenty of close ones though too. The last time I figured it out, my average distance was around 160 yds. That's since started hunting in 1973. I hunt groundhogs in the some country with the same rifles (270, 6mm Rem).

Dale

491 yards But that was on a depredation permit. Hunting about 320.

Ben

Been hunting for 55 years.
Probably have killed about 40 deer. (About 80% success over the decades)

Mostly western Washington, occasionally eastern.

Longest shot taken was approx 230 yards, deer standing broadside, staring at me... rest-aimed on a stump... couldn’t miss.

All other kills were between 20 and 150 yards.

Handgun, 150
Shotgun 165
Bow 45
Rifle (only been legal a few yrs now) 75
Muzzleloader 150

I grew up reloading and shooting chucks w HP rifles so dont consider 100 to be anything.

Hell all the shots above were offhand. Most of mine are.
But am getting older now......35 yrs of putting deer in the freezer.

Will say bow I like em 25 and in, and gun, 75 and in.
Just seems more exciting, hunting and not just shooting.

Rifle - Colorado Mule Deer 330yds
Muzzleloader - TN Whitetail 110yds
Bow - TN Whitetail 40yds

Been deer hunting for 40 years....longest White tail, 536 yards. Ranged from a shooting house, late afternoon on a bean field, no wind, sand bag on the fore end and a bipod supporting the butt. Used a 264 win mag, pushing 120 grain TTSX ~ 3300fps. Used a zeiss conquest 4-14 x 44 with a Rapid z 800 reticle that matched calculations from their website. Put the “504” yard hash high on the shoulder and the bullet impacted the vitals 1/3rd the way up from the bottom. Couldn’t have made a more perfect placement at 100 yards. Had my cousin in the shooting house watching w binoculars. He was stunned, as he watched the deer take 3-4 steps and collapse.
That same cousin took a nice 8 point on the same field a few years later at 495 yards with a Browning abolt ‘06 shooting 165 grain Hornady BTSP’s at about 2840 FPS muzzle velocity. In that case, I was watching the deer from ~950 yards away and saw it fall before I heard the rifle’s report, as I was 700 yards from his blind.

200 yards, prone position, 30/06, base of skull with cheap optics.

550 with one of the old Redfield Accutrac scopes.

Been hunting 35 years. Mostly in VT with occasional trips ME and northern Ontario. In most of the places it is hard to see 100 yards. Most shots have been inside 75 yards. Longest was around 150 in a field hunting on a friend's farm.

297 yards from a kneeling position with a 300 Wby. Doe went down right there.
32 yards with bow. Shot a doe facing me. Won't do that again. Didn't find her until the next morning. Shot her late and probably walked right by her twice in the dark.

A little over 400 yds, Remington model 700 carbine,308 caliber. 6x Bushnell Banner scope. Lying on the ground, because I couldn't find a good rest. Deer looked so small in the scope!. Aimed maybe a foot over the middle of the deer, and shot. A friend was behind me watching the whole thing. He said 'did you hit it?' I replied 'don't know'. We were loosing light fast, so we headed uphill to see if I had a deer or not. I got to the spot where I thought the deer was, searching and found nothing. My buddy was about 40-50 yds up higher, and says,'you got it, where were you aiming ?' I said 'high over the the shoulder area'. I hit him in the neck!! Lucked out, probably shouldn't have even taken the shot.

Mule Deer 653 ish. - 30-06
WT - 243 yds == 358 win
Antelope 425 yds - 270
Elk. 530 ish - 30-06
Pd 800 yds - 260
Coyote 680 yds - 300 WSM
crow 1,430 “ish” yds - 25-06
Steel plates 1200 so far (need to put them out further) - 6 creed /260

Field mouse - 10yds. 17 hmr
Squirrel - 80yds. - 17 hm
Pickle (shot freehand with a 22) 7day 5 yds - 22

117 yards in Iowa during the 2019 late muzzleloader season. .50 caliber T/C Encore muzzleloader with Blackhorn 209 pushing a Hornady 250 grain Monoflex ML.

Ron

Killed my first deer in 2007 at age 36. I'm 48 now.

Longest kill was a whitetail doe at 635yds with a 7Mag using 150gr NBT handloads. Dialed in with a Swarovski 5-25x52.

Can't remember the last deer I killed inside 100yds, it's been many years ago. I've killed a lot at 300+. My two deer last season were at 350 and 430yds, both the same afternoon with my 243 using 95gr NBT handloads.

For 3 years in a row, I couldn't hunt very well apparently, so the ranges were 278, 304 and 286, rounds were 7mm Rem and 308. The 10 pointer over on the left was the last one.

KC

Ii have made some long shots in my time. Some took so long to get to that the meat was spoiled! I had to start salting my bullets!

700 yards-7 STW with 140g Nosler combined tec bullets, MV 3650, he flopped on the spot. We had a food plot planted exactly 500 yards from the deer stand, shot many at 500 with this combo. 11 twist Pac Nor super match barrel, 27" long, zero freebore chamber, win brass, massive dose of IMR 7828 with Fed 215

My longest shot on any deer was 167 metres on a chital stag (axis deer) with my .280 in 25 years hunting. One fallow at about 120m and all the rest have been under 100m.

Which is why I don't get all caught up with ballistic coefficients.

19 years hunting. 39 deer.

483 yards was the longest, with a .30-06.


Most have been under 50.

-Jake

35 yrs.....about 6 dozen kills
Shotgun state for a long while.
We tested stuff, were not the avg bambi slayers.
So even smoothbores we were confident to 150 yards.

Growing up shooting chucks w HP rifles, reloading, got good at guessing yardage.

And didnt have the mental hurdle many seemed to, about going past 100.

Shocked me at work, couple guys w dozens of kills.....wont shoot past 50 yards, even w a rest. You tell em 100 yards offhand and they stare at ya like deer in the headlights.