Typical shot distance

[LottieDog]

All depends on terrain and wind. I’ve shot antelope from 75-450 yards. I’ve never shot past that just because I’m not super confident past that.

 

[mt terry d]

I just grabbed a random one. I don't see how it's "click bait"
They have some very experienced shooters who have a
difficult time making first round impacts at 500.
It regularly shows just how difficult it
is under ideal circumstances with basically competition rifles.

 

[2Stamp]

Average for last 5 goats is 85yds. That's averaging in archery though. Average rifle is around 160yds. Average archery is 35yds. Point is, if you are patient you don't have to shoot a long ways.

 

[TaperPin]

Do you mean average of all shots taken or just successful shots?

That will vary widely.
My average bow shot on elk is probably 20. From 3 to 35.
I'm sure many others average much farther. But I'm not
good enough to ethically take 45 or 60 or 80 yard shots.

It would be easy to average shots at 1000 on antelope.

Your average shot distance will depend a lot/mostly on you.
Few hunting rifles are incapable of being accurate enough to
make ethical kills on game at 500

Proficient at 500 under hunting conditions? You need to find that not just
specify it. " By next season I'm going to be proficient at 850". Yeah,
great goal, only time will tell if I can achieve it. Odds are I can't.

Watch a few of these
Note these are frequent and pretty experienced shooters under ideal conditions
with rifles you probably aren't going to be packing into the woods.

I do enjoy Eric’s challenge. While the kill zone is a little small, there are some big misses that wouldn’t hit a full 10” kill zone. I show these videos to the kids in the family as examples of mental and equipment malfunctions that are common. Jams, poor zero, forgetting which direction to turn a turret, slapping the trigger, failure to chamber a round, failure to understand how to quickly clear a jam, and shots that can take an eternity to get off.

For those who don’t know what’s happening behind the scene, every shooter there has a kestrel and is accounting for wind. There are a lot of shots on the show that hit high, but with wind from right to left, what happens vertically to the bullet? Aerodynamic jump is a real thing that starts to be important at that range.

 

[AndrewMT34]

When I lived in Wyoming I hunted antelope almost every year. My shots ranged from 50-650 yards.

More than shooting distance, I'd work on calling wind. Antelope generally live in some windy places.