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I was thinking you would have us all beat. I put in for a tag every once in a while where it guarantees long shots. No getting around it. I'll always get a buck there, but the pack out isn't fun, so I don't put in for it too often. Shots range from 400 all the way out to 1,000 yards, If I want to shoot that far:

I call it my "longrange" tag. If you can sneak up on a deer there, you are a far better indian than I am. One year I shot a muley buck at 600 yards on the nose. Thats with the angle comp on. Actual straight line yardage was a hair bit more. I was using my FN PBR XP 300WSM, that I used for centerfire competition:

42 clicks (10.5 MOA) up and sent the bullet right through the heart. The next one was shot in the same canyon and laser ranged right at 648 yards, shooting downhill. Again, had to use the angle comp on the LRF. The rifle I used that time was a trusty 7mm rem mag model 70 classic stainless. 1 shot, again right through the heart. Both rifles shot consistent sub moa 10 shot groups. For shooting long range on a big game animal, that requirement is a must for me.

Does anyone know what kind of tripod John Burns is using in the video?

I started hunting with my dad at age 6. Killed my first solo at age 10. Going on 35 now so I guess 25 years of solo hunting.
Longest with compound bow is 61, closest was straight down less than hard from tree.
Longest with rifle was 774 with a 338 lapua and a 285gr hornady bullet. Nightforce scope. I have taken a few more through the years at 500 plus as I hunt a lot of bean fields.
My closest was at 8 yards, my first deer

This will be my 43rd whitetail opener in a row.

Longest yardages:

404 on whitetail.
398 on antelope.
374 on elk.
258 on muley.

All with the same Browning 300WM.

I think my longest was probably at a quarter mile, I was on one fenceline, and the deer was on the other, in a quarter-section field. That SHOULD add up to 440 yards or thereabouts. I was using a .30/06 with an old K-4 Weaver scope, and Federal Premium factory loads, with the 165 Sierra BTSP. It was memorable, because it was a new rifle I'd been practicing with all summer long.

I MUCH prefer to shoot them a lot closer, I think the average distance I've killed deer is about 160-170 yards, mostly in farm fields or pastures in N/C Missouri, and I've been doing it for fifty years now (or trying to do it, I miss once in awhile). Now I don't even try those longer shots, there's no need, and I don't care to track if I don't have to track anything.

My longest on deer is 425 yards on a coues whitetail. Been hunting around 25 years

Revisited this thread. I've narrowed down by choices to a 7mm08 or .308.......maybe a 6.5 based on these replies from you guys with way more experience than myself. I also hunt the Northeast and can't imagine shooting over 300 since I don't carry sticks and there are very few places to shoot prone or off a backpack.

Probably 300 yards

Pretty much same here. We hunt a lot of pipeline ROW intersections and logging roads. Most don’t reach past 250yds, but a couple can go 500+.

My longest shot on deer is 535 yards. My longest shot on an antelope is 777 yards.

Killed a ton in the 300 to 350 range. Few in the 400 to 450 range. 2 over 500. 1 over 600. A doe at 625. Hit her shoulder and exited in front of the offside shoulder. Pretty load pop when the bullet hit.

Been ay it 48 yrs. now. My longest is about 80 yds. I only killed about 25 though.

Most of my shots are inside of 50 yards. Matter of fact, it's pretty much of a stretch to get a shot over 50 unless you're sitting on a field. There's enough deer here that there's no need to do anything crazy.

Longest in the open - 125 yards

Longest in the woods - 100 yards (I've only done this twice)

Shortest - 15 feet (straight down)

432 yds with 180 gr Nos. BT in .300 WM & measured with Bushnell Range finder

around 10 years ago in Montana hunting deer with two friends Dave and Doug both frontline Viet Nam Marine vets both had been wounded over there and now doing ok ,Doug was with Carlos Hathcock in Viet Nam when on patrols Doug would take Carlos out in enemy North Viet Nam many miles and leave Carlos to do his missions . we had a 10 point whitetail buck at over 700 yards , 8 inches of snow i was up higher about 600 - 800 ft above that buck i laid down in the snow with my custom Ruger # 1 257 Weatherby mag. 27 inch Brux barrel and Harris bipod , the 100 gr. Nosler Partition bullets were going 3,800 Fps. , i laid the 1st x-hair below center on top of the buck`s back and fired . buck went down for good i spined him ,we measured distance afterwards 720 yards. i had very little time too shoot i ran to where i could shoot ,lay down and pulled the trigger it was just a luck shot but Doug seen the shot and said it reminded him of Carlos when Carlos practiced at camp. pete53

On deer maybe 200 yards probably more like 175. Longest game animal ever was a pronghorn at 308. It’s not usually that hard to close the distance for a sure shot in my experience.

Right around 300 yards with a 30-06 and 150 grain Power Point

I've shot does past 700 yds. I can't remember killing any bucks past 320 yds.

This will be my 32nd year of hunting whitetails and I've killed at least 250. Never kept count, but used to shoot a lot of does to keep population under control.

Longest yardages:

389 and 393 on whitetails.
422 on coyote.
525 on a hog.

Killed several dozen deer between 325 and 385.

Only one. Most under 150 yds.


I'm not a long range guy.

However in 2001 I was hunting my buds blind. I'd been up since the day before, I was tired and cold but did not want to go home empty-handed, so I made a Hail Mary shot.

I had recently purchased a Remington 700 Sendero chambered for the 338 RUM, and loading 180gr. Nosler Ballistic tips. My bud was set up for a cross-canyoun shot of 590 yds., ranged by laser. I had the rifle zero'd for 250 yds. I figured the bottom of the feeder mechanism was about 8' and the doe under the feeder would be about 3' at the shoulder. The wind was blowing pretty good so I held over what I considered to be level with the feeder mechanism and estimated 2' windage, and let fly. Got scope-eye and when I could see for the blood the doe was upside down under the feeder. Pure luck.

Other than that only two other critters over 300 yds., but that was on Aoudad.

ya!

GWB