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View Poll Results: Your maximum rifle range on Deer
100 yards 8 5.67%
200 yards 18 12.77%
300 yards 53 37.59%
400 yards 37 26.24%
500 yards 15 10.64%
600 yards 4 2.84%
over 600 yards 6 4.26%
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Old 11-01-2006, 05:38 PM
Evan03 Evan03 is offline
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300yds is a long shot anywhere you are or how you cut it.

most people shooting that far arent shooting that far on paper. 1-200yd world is alot difrent than 200- and further things change drasticaly and i dont think guessing yardages past 300 are even in the question

most all calibers are dropping close to 4 feet at 500yds most are dropn even more than that.

i am not pointing fingers at anyone ive been there myself killed one deer past 300 with my 270win with luck alone and young stupidity.

knowing what i know now i would still make that shot but i would not guess the range or not practice at the range out to distance i plan to shoot. for me 300 is as far as i go and i punch paper at that range and can keep groups well inside 5"s mosty my rifles will print half that out that far.

if any thing local is any indication im willing to bet that most people dont shoot past 100yds ever untill they are looking at game in the cross hairs. even i was giulty of that.
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