Your longest kill?

[jaredg]

687 & 692 YDS. Prairie dog hunting outside Moab. .204 Ruger 32gr VMax. First shot landed a foot to the left. Next one dumped 687. Next one hit 692. Lots of 400+ rock chucks. One herd of deer at 400 with a 243. At night. Thermal depredation hunting

 

[Floated_down]

I've only ever shot one animal, a bull elk at 150yds. I'm practiced enough to confidently shoot to 300, maybe next year I'll try to extend my range a bit further just in case that's the opportunity I'm presented with next fall, but I did really enjoy getting in close to the animal

 

[MTtrout]

I’ve killed animals not to far past 300 and many below that. I shoot targets at distance but never set myself up to shoot animals at distance.

 

[huntineveryday]

Mule deer at 210. Honestly most of my shots are between 100-200 yards. I trust my gun and bullets and practice for further shots, but the way I hunt I just seem to get in tight. I hunted a lot of years with bow and muzzleloader, old habits I guess. This year's buck was 65 yards.

Longest kill on a coyote at 411, have shot several over 300. Have shot Prarie dogs in the 300-325 range.

 

[butcherboy]

Rimfire is great. Especially if it matches the centerfire rifle. You get repetitions in that match centerfire positions, learn wind, learn to spot shots and correct, learn to follow through.

The only negative is bad habits from lack of recoil management.

For a 500 yard shot…. I would put my money on the guy that shoots a few bricks of rimfire a year at 100+ yds positional over the guy that shoots a couple boxes out of a centerfire from a bench.

You would lose that bet with me. I don’t shoot bricks of rimfire at all. Maybe 50-100 rounds a year with my kids. My kids shoot way more than that. I don’t shoot hundreds of rounds out of my hunting rifle either. In fact, I haven’t shot it in two years. I can take it out tomorrow and hit clay pigeons at 500 yds no problem. Difference is I have shot my whole life and I know how my rifle shoots. I have two rifles and that’s it. A 270 and a 270wsm. I’m deadly with them.

 

[Mr. October]

My longest shot was a touch over 200 yards. I practice out to 400 yards and love to test my ability on the range at that distance but, these days, won't shoot at game at longer ranges. I feel like I am a better hunter than that. A lot of stuff can go wrong at long distances with gun or bow. My bow shots are pretty much all at "no range finder needed" distances as well.

 

[Nick4050]

495 yards on a black bear that presented himself across the valley from our moose camp. We ranged him from the camp fire at 520, but I'd spent a ton of time shooting pre-season and had given myself a hard cap of 500 yards. We walked to the crest of the ridge and ranged him at 495, a couple minutes later after I'd gotten comfortable he took a 180 ttsx to the lungs and bang-flopped down to the bottom of the hill.

 

[T-Stick]

Moose at 425 paces with a 300 Win mag with the 180 Hornady ... we crested a rise in a bog with no tree or bush nearby from which to rest. We spotted each other at the same time. I could not even sit without losing sight of it. I adopted the standing silhouette shooting stance that I had practiced at 300 meters. I held for 400 yards and shot as the cross hairs came down on the vitals. I knocked it down. It tried to rise and I hit it again. It was down for good. Both shots were fatal in the chest. The first exited the lungs and the second was under the hide on the far shoulder as it was rising up and turning to leave.

 

[OXN939]

Close is cool.

I used to teach precision shooting in the military. Will probably never shoot at a live animal past 300.

Make short range hunting great again.

 

[Chris in TN]

You would lose that bet with me. I don’t shoot bricks of rimfire at all. Maybe 50-100 rounds a year with my kids. My kids shoot way more than that. I don’t shoot hundreds of rounds out of my hunting rifle either. In fact, I haven’t shot it in two years. I can take it out tomorrow and hit clay pigeons at 500 yds no problem. Difference is I have shot my whole life and I know how my rifle shoots. I have two rifles and that’s it. A 270 and a 270wsm. I’m deadly with them.

If you'd swear to not having fired that rifle in 2 years and could find a neutral witness to ride to the range with you with one round of ammo and one standard clay pigeon to use as a target at 500 yards, I'd bet we could get a pretty good bet pool going here.

I'm just saying....

 

[T-Stick]

One of my greatest kills was having a buck stare at me from 7 yards on the ground and then walk away guardedly. I shot him at 20 yards with my compound bow when his head went behind a tree.

 

[butcherboy]

If you'd swear to not having fired that rifle in 2 years and could find a neutral witness to ride to the range with you with one round of ammo and one standard clay pigeon to use as a target at 500 yards, I'd bet we could get a pretty good bet pool going here.

I'm just saying....

Never said I could do it with 1 round only. With 3-4, absolutely. Those first rounds will be within a couple of inches guaranteed. I don’t shoot at a range. BLM land shooting prone off my backpack or laying over a sandstone boulder. A couple of inches from hitting a clay pigeon at 500 yds is a dead elk easily. November 2023 was the last time I shot my 270wsm right before my son’s elk hunt.

 

[TradLife406]

My bull this year was at 905 with my 6 UM 115 DTac.
Let me add the context to the shot.
I'd been hunting solid for about two weeks on a backpack hunt. It was getting down to shoot the next legal bull I find or eat my tag. When you have six kids eating a tag isn't an option.
Leading up to this season I'd spent a lot more time shooting than before. Still not as much as I wanted but close to a thousand rounds. Which I know isn't much compared to PRS guys who dudes who own their own shooting range etc. But for a blue collar dad it's decent.

The entire hunt I had been battling winds up to 60 mph. But when I shot the wind was dead calm. Absolutely nothing. I took that as Gods sign to send it.

With the wind conditions and the fact this bull and his two buddies were basically frozen in place I decided to shoot.

I was able to get prone and told myself this was no different than a 100 yard shot as far as the basic principles went.

First shot was a miss. But I thought it was an impact because of how he reacted. I worked the bolt and as he went broadside again I sent a second shot. The time of flight was crazy. Like time froze. After the second shot he was down and rolling down the hill in about 10 seconds.

I've taken shots at 200-300 and missed the first shot.

If there had been any wind or the animals had been moving I would have passed the shot.

Being a trad bow dude I'm all about getting close. But at the end of the day I've got babies to feed.

 

[Decker9]

My furthest was my stone sheep on a solo hunt. I forgot my range finder in the truck, had him on opening morning, around 400 yards, but I couldn’t make the call. 2 other times I had him about the same. On day 7 I got to what I guessed 325 yards and hit where I wanted, so I’m thinking 325 yards is my furthest.

My lady has me beat. We were out looking for winter goats a few years back she put a nice shot on this wolf at 450 yards. All I told her was she had 36” of drop

 

[Pharmseller]

Shouldn’t have sat still for so long.

Cool vid.

 

[bhhad25]

Whitetail at 190 yds, with a muzzleloader

 

[coyotekilla]

I think a better poll would be your closest kill, that is the challenge as a hunter. How close u can stalk or wait for the kill vs shooting at long range.

Having done a lot of long range shooting for my job and competition I always wonder how many animals shot at very long range, say plus 500 are wounded and not recovered or killed and not found as picking the point an animal was standing in cover at say 1k after walking there depending on terrain is a feat in itself.

My closest kill was cow elk at 11 paces with a smith 41 mag mountain gun Longest was another cow at 387 yds with a 308. Both DRTs.

Closest kill... a coyote called to 20 in the dark was quite the adrenaline rush. Red fox mere feet away but didn't kill them. Ive poked 2 adult doe with my rifle muzzle and watched them run off. Kinda like counting coup... anyhow here's the coyote video.

 

[Pharmseller]

Close encounters

 

[Billy Meyers]

Elk at 630 put him down on the first one and made sure he didn't move with the second... cranked the turret 34 clicks and counted every one while I had him in the scope! Both shots where I wanted them to hit. Thank you technology!

 

[Ringbill27]

70yds. CVA wolf 50cal and a whitetail. I don’t get long shots.