35 yds. I can shoot reliably out to 40, and I believe whole heartadly that I could take a deer at 40yds. But I limit myself to 35. I have already had to pass on 4 does this season becuase of my personal rule. I typically know the range to all of the tree' s even remotely near my stand. I try to create a mental " circle" in the woods around me, and only animals that enter that circle will I consider a shot at.

Bassn

I am super confident 20 yds and under, 90% confident out to 30 yds, and 0% I shot any farther than that.

I really like 15 to 20 and would go for a 25 if all is perfect. I am not as dead nuts at any range like most of you. When you go over the 50 mark, years that is, something has to be blurry. I use glasses for far off so the deer is clear. This leaves the pins and peep blurry. Made a special trip to the eye doc and he wasn' t much help. I do manage a 4" hole most of the time at 20 so I feel pretty good about 20 yards. If you don' t wear glasses try a pair of sun glasses with some vaseline or simmular smudge and try to shoot.

25 yards, 90 ,what a laugh,LOL

It depends. To find my max range I start with kinetic energy. Find the recommended kinetic energy for the particular animal, say 45ft/lbs for white tail. Then I use the archery program and find out the max distance I can shoot and still maintain 5lbs over recommended. That would be my conceivable max range.

Then I take the size of the kill zone and compare it to my shooting skills. My max range based on skill is the max range that I can consistently (99%) group arrows within the size of the kill zone.

Take the shortest of these two ranges and that is my max range for that particular animal under optimum circumstances. This assures that I have the skill to hit the kill zone consistently and the kinetic energy to get the job done.

Solid out to 60 on non-moving, non living items.

Would NEVER take a shot on a deer at that range. Way too far for me and there is too much time for the deer to move before the arrow gets there.

Can hit the " pop-top" of a tennis ball can 3 out of 4 times at 40 - but would prefer to take them at 30 or less.

Funny thing - I am nearly perfect (9 of 10) at 30 yards, but only hit 7 of 10 at 10 yards. Form? Bow? Arrow?

I' m 100% confident out to 30 yards. Anything beyond that would have to be ideal conditions. 40 would be my absolute max and conditions would have to be perfect conditions.

With my eye sight and steady hand not what it used to be, good groups and still pretty consistent. 20-25 yards with 30 being my absolute limit.

Friend of mine shot a 125" deer at 45 yards with a spitfire 3 days ago and hit him perfect, he watched him fall after going only 40 yards. To me that would be a shot that conditions would just have to be perfct on. I have a 25, 35, and 45 pin and shoot 2" groups at 45, but 30 is the farthest I want to shoot at deer. Just to risky to lose a deer jut b/c of a bad decision.