Your longest kill?

[dårlig jeger]

There's a lot of discussion on how far people can, or should shoot at game. I'm curious about what the rokslide user data looks like.

What is your longest success on big game?

Please vote, and vote honestly. I appreciate your contribution.

 

[MuleyFever]

Can successful be defined as a hit where you were aiming? It would be more telling to keep it to first round hits in the vitals and not just a dead animal that took multiple shots to get.

 

[dårlig jeger]

Personally, I've got a mule deer buck at 365, a few whitetail between 300-320, but the vast majority of mine are in the sub-300 range.

 

[dårlig jeger]

It would be more telling to keep it to first round hits in the vitals and not just a dead animal that took multiple shots to get.

I started to explain that in my post, but I decided to leave that to the voter.

I hope most people wouldn't count shooting a leg off at 600 as successful but, we know some people do.

 

[Ope]

All my shots are sub 200. Just don’t have a lot of open space where I hunt. I’m lucky if I can see 100yds through the trees.

 

[TxLite]

Two furthest for me were a coyote 420 and Antelope at 463. Both were DRT.

 

[Chris in TN]

Bull elk, 451 yards, prone. One perfect shot, hit where called.

Doe whitetail, 399 yards, one perfect shot in the top of heart. No witnesses. From an improvised rest out of a metal ladder stand.

Cow elk, 387 yards, called double long shot. Hit where called. Not a perfect shot but it hit where I expected. The crosshairs settled high and slightly back double lung and I broke the shot instead of trying to wrestle the crosshairs lower. Seated behind a bog pod.

Numerous coyotes from 250-350 yards in the days before rangefinders. Most from some sort of rest. Longest offhand was close to 200 yards, almost a miraculous hit after an almost miraculous stalk down the opposite side of a snowy hedgerow. It just worked out perfectly that day.

Longest deer was maybe 250 yards pre-rangefinder. One from prone, one with the rifle balanced on a pine tree limb and me leaned against the trunk.

I have learned that 400+ is a really long distance and I don’t enjoy the hunting part of it. I enjoy hunting more when critters are closer and try to hunt in ways that allow that. YMMV.

 

[ethanbillingsley]

I am a whitetail hunter in South Carolina. I’ve had more bucks shot standing within 20 yards than chances at bucks past 100 yards. Just how it is around here. Yes some people do have access to longer lanes but majority is up close and personal.

 

[roadrunner]

Cow elk in UT, 500 and some change. Handful more just over 400 and several 300 - 400.

 

[HuntHarder]

Coues buck @ 951 yards, 2nd shot, first shot was a bad wind call. I missed 12" left of POA. Across 2 canyons, badly miss judged the wind. 2nd shot, correction, dumped him. 300 WSM 185 vld

645 yards mule deer this year. 1 shot DRT, hit where I was aiming, calm conditions, relatively flat terrain, no wind hold. 6.5 CM 130 Vld.

 

[Pharmseller]

Mulie buck, 541. Kilt him ded.

 

[83cj-7]

I’ve killed a few deer out to and past 1000 yards but that was while filling deer permits so I really didn’t care if I missed (with a .243 Win). I have also made a few cold bore kills in the 700-800 yard range during normal hunting situations. That said, the more I know and the more I shoot in wind, the less I would take shots like that again. Too much to go wrong.
Hit a few prairie dogs beyond 1200 yards with a .243 as well, took a couple shots to get the wind call right though.

 

[Stonewall308]

I killed an antelope at 275, and I hit a 5 inch steel plate target at 500.

Almost all of my kills are archery, inside 25 yds

 

[ReddingArcher]

Blacktail at 399 if I remember correctly and an antelope at 380-390ish, can’t remember exactly.

 

[Matt5266]

This year on a cow elk 410 yards. I usually always get as close as possible. In this case this was as close as I could get, no wind and felt rock steady and confident. Worked out but I don't seek these shots by any means.

 

[ShakoMako]

Farthest elk - cow at 330

Farthest eastern whitetail - 240 yds which is probably double the farthest distance of every other whitetail I’ve shot over the years.

Farthest subsonic suppressed 22LR on a squirrel during a lull in whitetail hunting…75 yards (tikka T1X)

 

[grfox92]

I killed the mule deer in my avatar this year at 648 yards. Was able to watch him drop through the scope.

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[diverc18]

Feral goat at 525. Zero wind. Prone off pack with rear bag. Pretty extreme uphill angle. Had all the time in the world.

 

[wkk]

280 yards on a whitetail.

 

[madtinker]

Mule deer at 220, and honestly would have preferred to be closer but the brush got real dense.