bjorgenson
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375 Yards heart/lung shot with a 7mm WSM. Used the 160 Accubond and the buck dropped like a rock.
Whats your longest rifle shot on a deer?
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dirtyjim
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back when i could afford a good lease in west texas & my back yard was a 29 acre cow pasture that i could practice shooting out to about 400 yards. i made quite a few 500+ yard shots on deer, we didn't have any laser rangefinders back then so we had to guestimate the distance. i think my best shot on a deer was with my brothers ruger #1 300wm, it had a 16x scope on it & the deer looked mighty small. we were on one mountain & it was on the other. now my best shot was on a fox with my weatherby lazermark 270wm it was about 550 yards out i was trying for a head shot & got him in the neck.
now that i don't get to shoot as often as i used to & i don't have i good place to practice long shots i wouldn't attempt either one of those shots now
now that i don't get to shoot as often as i used to & i don't have i good place to practice long shots i wouldn't attempt either one of those shots now
Grunt
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When I farmed back in ND, my usual ground was one of my fields across the ravine. Closest shot you'd get would be 200 yards and the farthest would be 780. The last buck I dropped out there was at 662 yards lased and witnessed by the wife who was doing the spotting. Great thing about hunting that ground was every day the deer would come up out of the ravine around 1630 or so and during the off-season, I made range cards to every prominant point out there and kept a good dope book so that makes it easy hunting right there. After the shot, get in the truck, drive out to the field, pick him up and drive home. Sort of shopping for meat on the hoof.
carnaby
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My first and only deer was taken at 30 yards with a .300 win mag. The rifle was up to it 
Bazooka Joe71
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I like that.
MCgunner
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A mulie a little over 350 with a 7 mag. My limit is 400, won't shoot farther.
Whitetail in brush or woods is one thing, but mulies can be and often are cross canyon shots. I've not hunted 'em much, mostly whitetail and I've never shot a whitetail over 200 that I can recall, though my grandpa did with a .257 Roberts at a little over 300.
Whitetail in brush or woods is one thing, but mulies can be and often are cross canyon shots. I've not hunted 'em much, mostly whitetail and I've never shot a whitetail over 200 that I can recall, though my grandpa did with a .257 Roberts at a little over 300.
oklahoma caveman
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357 yds with a rem700 7mm-08
Hypnogator
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600 yds across a canyon above the Snake River in eastern Washington. Remington 700 BDL in .300 Win Mag.
kir_kenix
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alot of these answers are going to vary depending on where somone lives. when i lived in wooded north west michigan, my shots were generally close.
now that i live in open nebraska, i have traded in my 30-30's for a longer range bolt or pump gun (not that u cant be successful w/ a lever action by any means).
now that i live in open nebraska, i have traded in my 30-30's for a longer range bolt or pump gun (not that u cant be successful w/ a lever action by any means).
My average distance is about 50 yards. But about 10 years ago, I made the mistake of taking a scoped SKS out on the last day of the hunt. I was getting desperate to get a deer and made a 225 yard shot. The 1st round grazed the deers head. The 2nd shot nailed him. Never again! I now hunt only with my most accurate rifles and would make a 225 yard shot with one of them, but general get one at much closer ranges.
alsaqr
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Longest shot on a white tail deer was 482 measured yards with a Remington model 700 in .30-06. Bang flopped a doe Monday at a lasered 412 yards with my favorite 150 grain handload and that same Remington model 700 in .30-06.
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Don't rightly reckon I know the distance for sure. But it took the bullet a week to git there and me a month to walk over to the ole critter.
Good thing my bullets was packed in salt or the ole critter might have spoilt betwix the time I shot him and when I loaded him on my mule.
Corse I wuz usin one of them new technology cap fire rifles so anything wuz possible.
Good thing my bullets was packed in salt or the ole critter might have spoilt betwix the time I shot him and when I loaded him on my mule.
Corse I wuz usin one of them new technology cap fire rifles so anything wuz possible.
I have only killed 2 deer over 100 yards.
1.285 measured 270 rem 700 bdl.
2.130 measured ruger 77 in 7x57
thats in about 40 years of hunting.seems most shots I have made were in the 60-80 yard zone.alot of them with cast bullets.
pete
.1.285 measured 270 rem 700 bdl.
2.130 measured ruger 77 in 7x57
thats in about 40 years of hunting.seems most shots I have made were in the 60-80 yard zone.alot of them with cast bullets.
pete
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Farthest shot was probably about 85yds across a creek valley. It's some vertical hilly terrain here. That was a good shot though... because of the angles, I only had a 4" target window for a clean drop. (was shooting from directly behind the deer with about 20' of elevation) I made the shot from the kneeling position with no trees or anything for support.
I'm equipped to shoot to the moon, because it's possible you could get a cross-valley shot ranging out to 400m or more. It just hasn't happened to me yet.
I'm equipped to shoot to the moon, because it's possible you could get a cross-valley shot ranging out to 400m or more. It just hasn't happened to me yet.
A spike buck at 300 yds(measured on my truck odometer)with a RMEF H&R Ultra in 280 Remington from a good rest on a big hay bale. Various landmarks in this big field(approx. 820X200 yds)had been lazed,so I wasn't guessimating completely.
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missouri dave
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Whitetail deer, 140 yards or so, 6.5 swede. Dropped like, well, like he was shot. Never seen the attraction in long range shooting really. Bowhunters have killed nearly every kind of animal on this earth and most were within 20 yards or so. If a bowhunter can within 20 yards I can get within 200 yards.
KINGMAX
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I agree w/ having a truck close by. I am very selective in taking game. I like them close enough to give it a once over before I put it down. I enjoy still hunting. I don't enjoy chasing a wounded deer through the woods. I hunt w/ a Remington 700 ADL in .270, combined w/ 150 gr silver tips, it has brought down meat every time I told it to do so. A very high percent were taken within 120 to 215 yards. I do have one stand that would take a shot out to 500 yards, I have never had to take a shot that far.
RobTzu
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I got 8 Reindeer mid flight with my .50 BMG. Easily 40,000 feet.
Rokman
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460 paces with .25-06.
skinewmexico
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Not always an attraction. Sometimes it's a necessity. If you wait on a 200 yard shot on a mule deer in central New Mexico, you'll never shoot.
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arctictom
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2 black tails at 125 yards w/1895 marlin GG thorough the ears and upper neck (on the second deer) with a Wild West guns ghost ring/peep.
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