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I had a 4x on my RSI 243 win watching a weird but decent sized rack buck coming across the field.

One farmer does both fields, the old fenceline gone. But theres a grass strip for erosion control and if rhe buck hit that he was on my side of the line and only 250 yards.

Prone in been field edge......was no big deal.
But the doe turned around and he followed.

Id have dumped him if he crossed that line.

So.......I havent shot past 200.on deer yet

Last yrs buck was 25, w a .35 rem. Felt kinda bad about it.
50-75 is still close but feels more honest. 25 was too easy.

I have taken a couple of deer over the 42 years that I have been deer hunting at 325-350 yards. The vast majority have been inside of 175 yards or so

Been hunting for 36 years
longest with a bow 65yds
Handgun 35yds
muzzle loader (inline w/scope) 180 yds
Rifle just over 300yds with an average rage of less than 100yds

2 at around 325. One was a doe another guy had crippled. Shot it with my Whelen. Aimed what I thought was 18" over the backline over the shoulders.
hit dead center through the shoulders and she tipped over dead.I
Killed a 10 point a few years later with my 300 Wby at ranged 326 yds crossing a big field.

My longest was 425 yards. The terrain here is so thick, that unless you are hunting cleared land, logging roads, or powerline / gaslines - most shots are going to be 100y or less.

WT 340 yards
Mule deer 480 yards
Elk 620 yards

October 1996 Unit 55 Cassia County Idaho 4 X 4 Mule Deer 560 yards with my Sako Classic Grade 7MM Rem Mag. The rifle has been bedded and tuned for accuracy by a man who really knew what he was doing and at that time wore a straight 6X Leupold 4 witnesses held roughly 3 foot over it's back. After that I swapped the scope out with a Zeiss 3-12

624 yards on Coues whitetail with a 300 Weatherby Mag

Shot a Coues back in 1993 with my old 30-06. It was quite a bit further than 624 but don’t know what it was as I didn’t have a rangefinder back then.

I’ve been big game hunting since 1978.

Folks ,

161 RANGED yards , Manitoba , Canada .
T/C Encore with a scoped BullBerry 209x50 SS barrel ,
from a rest .
Soup

Out of all the deer I've shot over the years, I've only shot one at long distance. That was a whitetail doe sneaking out of a clear cut and it measured 413 yards. Every other deer I've ever shot was less than 100 yards. We hunt all most entirely inside the woods, and long shots just don't present themselves that often. On the other end of the spectrum, I shot an old 8 point jjust feet away from me. He was so close the wad from the shotgun slug was stuck in his neck.
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544 yards, broadside in a beanfield, on the last day of the season. 8 point buck, with a 300 Winnie.

Roughly 220 yards with .444 Marlin - a 'flock' of about 8-9 came out of a neighboring woodlot, I swung on the lead deer and the second one in line took the hit. Never could hit a moving target.

Been deer hunting 35 yrs.
My state allows HP rifle now for private land.
Farthest shot so far w HP rifle.....75 yards.
Killed a few w shotgun twice that far. No big deal.

I figure if hunting my buds dads place can go to 400 if using bipods. Used to shoot chucks to that. Deer I shoot tend to be slightly bigger than woodchucks, slightly. LOL

629 yards 6.5-06 Mauser

I have a 6.5-06 Mauser also. I like it a lot.

Whitetail with rifle, 130 yards.
Whitetail with shotgun, 80 yards.
Mule deer 250 yards.

228 yards.

I then built a second 6.5-06 on a Rem700 action, and have this month built a third 6.5-06 on another Mauser action... that I am about to hunt with.

I am sold in the 6.5-06 cartridge.

Started hunting when I was 22 so 24 years of hunting.

540 yards WT doe. 260 Rem 28” barrel with a 100gr NBT @ just under 3500fps. No dialing. I had a 350 yard zero, held high shoulder 1 mil and flipped the switch. Pretty cool to see it happen through the scope.

Most of my deer kills are between 200-300 yards. My favorites are when I walk the woods and put the sneak on them at 10-15 yards and hit them when they get up and run. I like that better than the longer stuff.