Realistic Shooting Distances

[Long Cut]

Hunt a lot of ag fields, think peanuts, soy beans, ect...450 is limit out of a tree stand...I have kill out to 430ish.

Are you shooting freehand or braced off a bar, tree, sling etc?

 

[S-3 ranch]

100-150 yards max from a tree or shaky platform

 

[Sccritterkiller]

Are you shooting freehand or braced off a bar, tree, sling etc?

I use a shooting stick..elbow rested on rail.

 

[Rich M]

I use a shooting stick..elbow rested on rail.

Same here. Very stable.

 

[Wolfshead]

I’m good out to 300.
My longest to date is 267 ranged.
It’s 300 for me because that’s as far as I have shot my rifle and I know that I can hit and where it’s going to hit at that distance.
I’m a firm believer in that you should only shoot at an animal as far as you have shot before and no further.
In other words, if I have shot out to 300 then I can go that far but if that animal steps out at 400 no go because I don’t know how that round is going to land.
I feel that I owe it to the animal that I know and not estimate.

 

[ZAK13]

From a tree stand most shots are 100yds and in with a shotgun or muzzleloader, with a rifle 300yds and in, but only once did I have 300yd shot, most with a rifle have been 150yds or less.

 

[brancher147]

Don’t think I have ever shot over 100 from a tree. I definitely would shoot to 200 with a rest but can’t think of a time I could see that far from a tree. I use a saddle so it’s easy to always rest off the tree. I have shot 200 from the ground while still hunting/stalking