Your longest kill?

[Dirtbag]

Close is cool.

 

[Jon C]

Young and dumb on a deer drive sitting on big field a button buck ran out just shy of 400 yds. I walked it in with 5 shots from a peep sighted 35 REM pump. Not something I’d do again. Shot a few on drives in that 200-350 range with a 7 rem mag. But most of my rifle shots have been inside of a hundred by a lot.

 

[buffybr]

On my first elk hunt, almost 60 years ago, I was hunting with one of my college roommates and using a borrowed rifle, a sporterized .30-40 Krag with iron sights. Opening morning, I spotted a group of elk with a 5x5 bull in the valley below us the ridge that we were on.

I told my roommate that I was going to try to get closer to them, and I hadn't gone 5 steps when my roommate shot at them. So sat down and, not knowing what I was doing, tried a head shot on that bull. I was so far away that the bead of the front sight completely covered that elk.

Finally, and after 13 shots and a mile or so of chasing him, I killed him. His antlers had 3 bullet hits and there were 2 bulllet creases in his hair on the top of his back.

After that hunt I bought my first centerfire rifle, a Herter's .30-06 with a scope, and every elk that I've killed with a rifle since then, I shot at under 300 yards, and most at less than 200 yards, including the ones that I shot with my .300 Wby.

Since that first elk, I've probably shot a couple of hundred big game animals all over the world, and I think that I can count on one hand the number of big game animals that I have shot at over 300 yards.

 

[Geewhiz]

I shot a wolf a few years ago right at 900 first cold bore shot.

 

[Ross]

Several bulls under 15 yds with my rifle, closest 5 yds. As to the longest, one at 575, but my favorite memory bull was at 512 yds and when I think of not being able to get any closer this is it. Canyon wall from canyon ledge, first spotted him at 1200 yds while on snowshoes. Late November Montana hunt where once in position I had all the time to control breathing, recheck the distance several times and wait for perfect broadside shot, picking a little spot in the crease that I pin wheeled. Watched him run and pile up. This years bull 340. The two prior bulls 12 and 45 yds. I like them in very close when the opportunity presents, but the first good shot under 600 is fine. Getting in close playing the bugling game with a rifle in October is a lot of fun and not a game many play, so better for me.

 

[5MilesBack]

As to the longest, one at 575, but my favorite memory bull was at 512 yds and when I think of not being able to get any closer this is it.

Where's Waldo? Can't pick him out in the pics. Need a little help.

 

[AKmatt]

multiple black bears, caribou, and mtn goat. All less than 200, with 192 being the exact longest. Lucky I guess.

 

[coyotekilla]

Woodchuck 350 off a fence post w/ a 243
Possum 420 w/ 223
Skunk 357 w/ 223
Coyote 360 w/ 223 & 243
Coon 370 w/ 6.5 grendel
Whitetail 370 w/ 6.5 cm
Mouse 104 w/ 243... yes mouse not moose & I have it on video

Varmits were shot at these distances in the dark.

 

[roosterdown]

I'm probably closing in on 100 big game animals.

Longest shot was 57 yards.

 

[NRA4LIFE]

317 yards, MT mule deer.

 

[cnelk]

590yds on cow elk in Wyoming.
340WBY Mag 225gr Hornady

610yds Coyote
243Win - 55gr nosler ballistic tips

 

[S-3 ranch]

I had a client blow the back leg off a pronghorn and it wouldn’t let us get any closer then 800-1000 yards, so I got my bipod and my uncle as a spotter to call the shots in on distance and direction missed, finally walked my shots in for center mass punch and put him down.
I don’t advocate shooting over the 500 yard line, wind is the key factor on missing a terribly long shot

 

[justinspicher]

515, off my tripod on my last bull elk. It was a downhill shot. One and done.

 

[butcherboy]

Longest was a cow elk in UT. 475 yds one shot 270wsm 140 accubond. I’ve shot several elk in the 350-400 yd range. One mule deer buck around 350 offhand standing. That one was 90% luck and 10% skill. one shot through the heart.

 

[WeiserBucks]

I killed a couple caribou in Alaska, long ways from Idaho.

 

[huntnful]

1114 yards. More luck than skill in all honesty.

 

[Kingofthemountain83]

My first long range experience experience I was 14 shooting a Savage 110, 243 Federal 100gr PSPBT... A 4x mule deer buck walked up on me in open sage at 25 yards, I was at the timbers edge standing with my rifle on my shoulder walking down the road... He looked at me and hit high gear... I got the cross hair on him and touched off at about 125 yards quartering away... Hit him in the left rear leg... He was still moving out very well on three legs... I hit him a couple more times while he's running down hill about 300 and 350 yards... Slowed him down a lot and he started to feel it... I had to reload and he was standing broadside steep downhill long ways away... I saw my low hits on the rocky ridge and adjusted my hold over three times... He took two hits to the lungs before going down... It wasn't a proud moment but it taught me a lot... When I got a range finder 3 years later I checked the yardages and the final two were 657... I shot a lot more at at different ranges and went on to get a coyote at 536 yards and a blacktail at 368... I also got a 7mm Weatherby if I want to really shoot long range... I put a 400 yard limit on the old 43 for deer... I still use it today for deer... Nice and light to carry...