Thread: Whats the longest shot youll confidently take at an animal

Often this kind of thing can be a bit of a dick swinging competition, but so far so good with this thread.
@BRADS has nailed it - with skills, practice, the equipment and frequent shooting, you can shoot deer very dead with a big bullet at improbable ranges.

But for most of us mere mortals, you're looking at whatever your [aforementioned] allows.

In the period I was shooting a lot of deer as part of a concerted effort to clear land, a 500m shot was routine. 600m sometimes. With the .300, the odd 700m+. The primary control on range was topography - the typical distance across gullies.

However, as I've mentioned on here in the past, I found that kind of shooting to be unproductive. One shot and usually in that kind of country the mobs scatters and keeps on scattering and the chance of a second deer is drastically diminished unless its a fawn. So these days, I'm all about getting a bit closer and setting myself up for 3 or 4 quick shots to drop more than one.

On the last trip, I worked out that of 40 odd deer shot, the average range (including one at 10m and a couple at about 30m) was 276m. On three occasions I got 4, on two occasions 3 and multiple occasions 2 (fawns).

All DRT give or take with a soft 165gr Speer.