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I don't try to calculate the distance prior to shooting. Instead, I try to determine whether I think I can hit the animal lethally with a high degree of certainty. That usually means my shots will be less than 30 yards, with most of them significantly less than that. I still think the best way to practice for hunting is by shooting at various distances between a point as far away as I can consistently hit and a point just a few yards away from me. For me, trying to think of the distance to the target, especially when hunting, is a recipe for disaster.
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amar911 I agree with you i dont think about yardage. But yardage is always in my mind after the shot.
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25 yards and in! I can shoot farther but don't like to. Ideal shot is 15 to 18 yards. JMO! Jason
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I pratice out to 25yrds, but I prefer my shots to be at 15yds or less. At 15yds i hold on what i want to hit, at 20 hold 6inch's high, and at 25 a foot high.
-------------------- I am a hunter, a conquer, and a barbarian, I am MAN Posts: 170 | From: Back in em' smok'y Tn hills. | Registered: Jan 2010
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My average shot distance is probably 23yds. My favorite shots are 10yds.
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25 yards or less. I particularly like 5 - 10 best. Got two elk at 5 yards....
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Really stretched it on the one I bumped off with my Lee Signature Hunter last year, 22 yards. The shot was longer than the blood trail, which was 20 yards...
My longest kill shot in getting onto the last 20 years has been 25 yards, and that includes using compound sights/release...
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I went through all my successful harvests a few months ago and if I recall my average kill was about 14 yards. I think the range was from 3 yards to 32. I really have to be feeling good to attempt a shot longer than 20 yards.
Most of my practice is at varying distances from about 6 to 28 yards. I should do more shooting at the close ranges...and also more at 28-40, though I don't intend to try to increase my hunting range (just thinking it would make me a better shot overall).
I've had a trio of long kills with sticks (28-30-32), but have certainly passed up a lot of shots in the 20-30 yard range because I didn't "feel it" at the time.
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15 is nice, but 20 is very reasonable right now. I have been working hard and hope to be proficient to 30 so I can consider a 25 yd. shot next year. We will see. I always set up for 20 and under anyway.
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My longest shot ever was 35 yards,but most of the time I just try to get as close as I can "within reason". That nomaly turns out to be around 15-20 yards. What makes the most difference in shot distance to me is the type of country I'm hunting. Most of it is fairly tight bush and where you first see the animal will usualy be where you shoot from. That 35 yard shot was in open country an it took me over an hour to get where I was,there was no real thought about the distance,35 yards to me is not an issue if the conditions are right,and in that case they were.
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Shot a hog one time at 45 yds. Double lung hit and he went about 75 yds before expiring. Had a buddy standing behind me and watched the whole thing. He started yelling you hit him, you hit him! I practice at longer distances all the time so the shot was not out of my range. That being said, I didn't know it was 45 yds. If I had known, I probably wouldn't have taken the shot. Shot a couple of deer at 27 yds and one elk at 30 yds. All my other deer and hogs have been under 20 yds. Everybody has their comfort zone. I like to practice long range shots just because it makes the close ones that much easier.
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I'm Not Ted : Some shot? LOL I missed the mountain!
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