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I sight my deer hunting rifles in at fifty yards. That is the average distance I shoot deer at. At this stage of the game my long distance shooting is over.
Occasionally I'll shot a deer out there at a hundred yards or so, but that the top for me. To old to be dragging deer to far.
If most of my shots were 100 yards and in I’d be using iron sights almost exclusively. Back when I was killing 100+ hogs a year on my lease in Texas I got to where I was almost exclusively using iron sighted rifles as most of my hunting was either pushing thick cover and snap shooting or spot and stalk into fairly close range. I got so comfortable and fast with iron sights that a scope started to be nothing but a clumsy burden for my style of hunting.