five arrow, thats a great questions. The answer is, I dont know. I will mostly be hunting white tail deer in MN and I have a rifle for that. I am getting to the point of starting to want to cross of things on my bucket list. I want one good rifle to handle anything. Moose and elk are definitely on the list. Elk is something I would like to start hunting every other year or so. I have gone once and took a cow with my bow. I also want to hunt mule deer. I have a friend with connections up in Alaska as well. I just wanted one smooth shooting fairly light weight rifle as kind of my "go to" when taking off on a trip. As far as distance, I used to reload a lot and plan on doing it again. I plan on shooting this rifle a lot and it is going to depend on how good I am with the rifle as to what kind of shots I would try in the field. On the range, 1000 for sure. But as far as hunting, it all depends. My max could be 400, 600, who knows. It is going to take a lot of range time to answer that one.