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Ernie Bishop
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What is your longest shot/kill on big game?
What is the longest kill you have made on big game?
What is the average distance you take big game at?
Ernie
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Ernie,
you go first. I'm sure I'll be embarrassed to admit my longest after you do.
All kidding aside, 275-300 yards. Not very far by some standards.
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Oops. You asked for average distance, too.
If I had to guess, I'd say 150 yards. I could be off by as much as 50 yards either way, though.
Gun control laws make about as much sense as taking ex-lax to cure a cough.
Average: In Louisiana and Texas 125 yards.
In Colorado: 250ish.
Mike
N454casull
My average distance is 30 to 50 feet. That's Colorado elk BTW.
One of my prefered spots was an old favorite of my Dad's prior to his retirement/relocation. One memorable season we reflect on, is the big cow he got by threading the bush with the barrel of his scoped rifle to nearly touch her neck during discharge.
Average .based on the places I hunt...is 100 yards...
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Majority are probably 200 and in as most of my hunting is at night.
In the past several years, I have killed considerably more game in the dark.
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Son that's somebody with nothing to do with his time but keep me in trouble with mom.
Son that's somebody with nothing to do with his time but keep me in trouble with mom.
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John 3: 1-21
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John 3: 1-21
I've killed a lot of pdogs at 600+ yards, many at a bit beyond 700, and one at a lasered distance of 800. I killed one at what I think was over 900, but I don't claim that one because although I could clearly see it through the scope from my bench, I couldn't find it after traversing a few gates and washouts.
But, in a pdog environment. you shoot the 300 yarders, then,go out to the 300-400 yarders, then 450, then 500, and the next thing you know.........you're zapping coke can sized targets at distances that boggle the mind.
So.....you've eventually hit a Coke can sized target almost a half mile away. Great.
Now do that with one shot at half the distance at a deer- sized target under normal field conditions with game that's already wary of public lands.
Good Luck! Shoot straight.
Mike
N454casull
Son that's somebody with nothing to do with his time but keep me in trouble with mom.
Son that's somebody with nothing to do with his time but keep me in trouble with mom.
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Son that's somebody with nothing to do with his time but keep me in trouble with mom.
"The Un-Tactical"
I agree. This longest shot story happened around 1981 in the infancy of my education right before I became a Hunter Ed instructor for the State of Texas. I've learned a lot since and killed a few more deer too. Also, my ethics has improved a bit since then. I wouldn't even attempt such a shot now without confirming range and drops. About 3 months after this I was given a course in Hunter Education for Instructors which was the turning point in expanding my horizons about hunter safety and ethics and the mechanics of shooting in general.
Son that's somebody with nothing to do with his time but keep me in trouble with mom.
Mike
N454casull
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Son that's somebody with nothing to do with his time but keep me in trouble with mom.
Average deer less than 200, never shot one further than a ranged 243m as mostly where I go to shoot deer ranges aren't long.
All animals shot bigger than rabbit out past 300m have been with one 6.5x55 or other.
Reuters, Dec 2020.
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