tschaef

Deer aren't for practicing or experimenting on, find somewhere that you can shoot at paper at 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, etc. yards and deterimine what your limits are. Keep going further untill you can't get a good group any more, subtract 50yrds and thats your limit.

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Mykey

I've killed several deer at 300+ yds with my 30.06. If i do my part i know without a doubt the gun will. I shoot a handloaded Hornady 130grn spire point. I'm sighted in at 3" high at 100yds, 1" at 200, zero at 250 and at 300 i'm around 4" low. After 300 yds the bullet really starts to fall off and out to 350 i will stay on the top outline of the deer. I've never shot it past 350 so i don't know what it would do past that.

Caliper

Perhaps one day ill shoot out that far but for the most part there is no where here in my neck of ths pennsylvania woods that allows this

mrfishy34

the 06 is a powerful gun. with 150 grain u have alot of kill power at 300 yrds. i have seen deer been shot at 800 plus yards and they droped about 15 yrds from were he hit em. But he has plunty of practice with that gun. i shoot an 06 and i have takin shots at 600 plus but i hit behind the buck about a yard low. they say thats pretty good for a 16 yr old. but when we walk most of my shots will be from 50 to 130 yrds. hope that anwsers your question
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tiggeer

The ballistics say with a 150 grain core lockt bullet it will drop 54 inches at 500 yards and only be at 800 fps, i shoot a 300 wsm that drops 32 inches at 500 with 150 grain bullets and has 1634fps at 500 at 300 yards 06 drops 13.4 w/ 150 grain and 300 wsm drops 8.8 when zeroed in at 100 i shoot 3 inches high at 100 yards soo dropping 10 inches with 06 and 5 with 300 wsm and with my handloads we are looking at way less, soo a 300 yard shot with your 06 isnt very hard just you hafta practice practice practice just cant preach that enought because you dont want to hit her in the leg and injure it because a deer can run and run and run on 3 legs doesnt even really effect them so you best be realy comfortable when you shooting at such long distances.
TIGGER

762mm

So true here in Penn's woods, my extreme shots would be well under 100 yards, my longest shot somewhere near 65 yards so far. Maybe the guys hunting the harvested fields, gas pipeline or power line clearings around here can get those shots. I prefer to be up close and personal.


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