Your longest trad shot on an animal?

[joe ashton]

I did kill an elk at 37 paces!  It was broadside down hill with its head behind a tree and the sun was at my back shining on the elk making it glow... but I've shot 3 at 5 yards and that is better... my goal is to be under 20 yards on all shots. That is better.
 Joe

[Zipperhead]

My longest shot was last year.  31 yards on a deer.  I shot one at 27 yards about two weeks before that.  30 yards is as far as I practice from.  Gotta be confident to make the shot.

[Chad Panattoni]

35 yds for a carp. best shot of my life

[TooManyHobbies]

I've only killed one deer with the recurve. First shot, 18 yards, a little back into the liver/stomach. A couple seconds later, I drilled him at 15 yards through both shoulders. Just thankful for the second shot.

[Horne Shooter]

Crash...right on the money.

[Ranger B]

I don't want to turn this into a bashing but in the old days (ie. 50s and 60s) there were some very well know hunters that took shots with great regularity out to 80 yards. They hit a few here and there but there weren't as many animals, specifically deer, back then - at least in the SE U.S.  

My father hunted and shot with a lot of folks that shot that far at animals and hit one every now and then but I think we see more animals now so we use better judgment, knowing that we'll get another chance.

I've shot a dove at 15 yards, deer at 28 with a selfbow, squirrel at 21 paces - but I've missed more animals than I've hit in life except maybe deer but I'm picky with my shot selection.