What is the longest that you have shot a deer/would shoot
07-04-2004, 11:09 PM
#31
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Greenwood AR
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RE: What is the longest that you have shot a deer/would shoot
ORIGINAL: j3k2c1
an antelope one shot clean kill at 425 yards (rangefinder).
I would do that again. I did it standing with no support, so I would feel very secure repeating that.
an antelope one shot clean kill at 425 yards (rangefinder).
I would do that again. I did it standing with no support, so I would feel very secure repeating that.
Either that was some major luck for you or BS.
Standing with no support?????
What caliber/rifle/optics/?? What was the wind and weather cond?
07-12-2004, 10:11 PM
#32
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Manotick Ontario Canada
Posts: 115
RE: What is the longest that you have shot a deer/would shoot
I don't use magnification, so until last year, I would have said the longest shot I'd take at a standing deer would be 150 yds. However, after passing on a deer at 200 yds, I was convinced by my buddies to try that shot if it ever happened again. Two days later a small buck ran out into a beaver meadow and stopped fopr me at about 175 yds, and I managed to make the shot.
07-13-2004, 11:25 AM
#33
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Mormonville, Utah!
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RE: What is the longest that you have shot a deer/would shoot
What caliber/rifle/optics/?
07-13-2004, 01:24 PM
#34
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Western Washington
Posts: 24
RE: What is the longest that you have shot a deer/would shoot
363 yards on a nice 8 pt Whitetail. Didn't know the distance until the following year when I bought my rangefinder. Anything over 400 yards to me is crazy or you need at least a 12 power scope and a bean field rifle. Deer looked small in my 3 x 9 Leopold. By the way 7 mm Mag Ruger M 77 with 160 grain nosler partition. Rifle was sighted in for 250 yds. I don't avocate shots over 200 yards to anyone but those who shoot a lot.
07-13-2004, 02:53 PM
#35
Join Date: Jul 2004
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RE: What is the longest that you have shot a deer/would shoot
farthest was 180 yet that was because my cusin gut shot it his stand was about 300 yards to my right. when i heard the shot i naturally looked over and though i couldn't see my cusin i knew where he was and when i saw the deer lipping my way i waited until i had a good safe shot and i hit him in the neck with my 243. other then that my other 4 deer where taken at under 70 yards.
bow- i only killed one with a bow it was a doe at 13 yards
i feel i could kill a deer out to 250 with my 243 because i pratice so much and i have killed a couple coyotes at that range yet i would wait for a closer shot
bow- i only killed one with a bow it was a doe at 13 yards
i feel i could kill a deer out to 250 with my 243 because i pratice so much and i have killed a couple coyotes at that range yet i would wait for a closer shot
07-13-2004, 07:24 PM
#36
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Carthage MO USA
Posts: 35
RE: What is the longest that you have shot a deer/would shoot
320 yrds. It was a one shot kill on a doe. I was using a Browning A Bolt II chambered in 30-06, topped with a 6 power Leopold scope, and using 165gr Hornady BTSP bullet in a handload. The shot was taken from the standing position.
07-14-2004, 07:30 PM
#37
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Port St. Lucie, FL
Posts: 101
RE: What is the longest that you have shot a deer/would shoot
Seated on the ground, I took a doe at a touch over 400 yards with my 700 in .270 with a 4-14X44 Zeiss Conquest in no wind and a little downhill from me, she ran about 30 yards. I was using shooting sticks and had watched them for 5 mintues or more when I took the shot.
07-15-2004, 04:19 AM
#38
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: the woods of NJ.
Posts: 5,643
RE: What is the longest that you have shot a deer/would shoot
The longest shot I have taken was 110 yds. Dropped a doe in her tracks. Taken with a 12 ga. slug, rifled barrel, w/scope. The longest I would attempt is 125 yds. Provided I have a good rest.
07-16-2004, 10:10 AM
#39
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: \"Good Ontario\"
Posts: 1,754
RE: What is the longest that you have shot a deer/would shoot
The farthest I shot a deer was 20 yards with a .35 Whelen. In response to how far would I shoot is how far I feel comfortable so about 150-175 yards.
07-16-2004, 01:11 PM
#40
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Western PA
Posts: 1,356
RE: What is the longest that you have shot a deer/would shoot
my farthest shot so far was 297 with my 223 rem Dropped teh deer on the spot with a center lung shot. I have since retired the 223 and now use a 6mm rem. I will try a shot out to 400yds if the conditions are right. Farthest bow kill was 47yds.