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AVERAGE SHOT DISTANCE
« on: August 23, 2009, 02:59:30 PM »
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY HAS BEEN THE AVERAGE SHOT DISTANCE TAKEN AT GAME OVER THE YEARS. :rolleyes:

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Re: AVERAGE SHOT DISTANCE
« Reply #1 on: August 23, 2009, 03:05:41 PM »
70 yards.
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Re: AVERAGE SHOT DISTANCE
« Reply #2 on: August 23, 2009, 03:06:11 PM »
I WOULD GUESS 75 YARDS. AM I CLOSE?

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Re: AVERAGE SHOT DISTANCE
« Reply #3 on: August 23, 2009, 03:13:00 PM »
idk but I just added mine up and got the average as 119

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Re: AVERAGE SHOT DISTANCE
« Reply #4 on: August 23, 2009, 03:17:46 PM »
about 8 yards...  :chuckle:
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Re: AVERAGE SHOT DISTANCE
« Reply #5 on: August 23, 2009, 04:42:16 PM »
Bow or Modern Firearm or both combined into an average?  For bow I would have to say 10 - 15 yards average, I really enjoy being that close as it gets my heart racing and for rifle... right around 65 - 70 yards average. Guess I tend to hunt thicker cover.  :dunno:
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Re: AVERAGE SHOT DISTANCE
« Reply #6 on: August 23, 2009, 04:42:47 PM »
I've had shots under 10' and all the way out to 1000 yards but most have been in the 50yard to 75 yard range.

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Re: AVERAGE SHOT DISTANCE
« Reply #7 on: August 24, 2009, 10:27:58 AM »
70yds

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Re: AVERAGE SHOT DISTANCE
« Reply #8 on: August 24, 2009, 10:36:57 AM »
Yeah, no idea what my "average" would be, have not kept track.  Killed elk and deer with a bow as close as 5', have shot deer withe a rifle at ranged 504 and elk with rifle pushing 700yards, and everywhere in between.
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Re: AVERAGE SHOT DISTANCE
« Reply #9 on: August 24, 2009, 10:39:30 AM »
60 yards or so. That doe (special hunt) last year I shot with my bow was about 8 yards, so she brought down my average some. ;)

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Re: AVERAGE SHOT DISTANCE
« Reply #10 on: August 24, 2009, 11:11:44 AM »
About 150 yards.  Last year... 50 yards (that one snuck up on me while I was "checking my eyelids for cracks"  :chuckle:).  Previous years... close to 200 yards.  I sit on the same bluff, overlooking the same tree-line every year.

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Re: AVERAGE SHOT DISTANCE
« Reply #11 on: August 24, 2009, 03:30:51 PM »
I would say 100 yards with the longest at 250.  Funny how everyone fusses over having a long range cannon (I'm no exception) but look at the averages.

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Re: AVERAGE SHOT DISTANCE
« Reply #12 on: August 24, 2009, 03:40:27 PM »
30 yards or less.

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Re: AVERAGE SHOT DISTANCE
« Reply #13 on: August 24, 2009, 03:41:13 PM »
10 to 2o yrds

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Re: AVERAGE SHOT DISTANCE
« Reply #14 on: August 24, 2009, 03:48:38 PM »
closest-18 yards (bow-deer)  longest 584 yards (300 Weatherby-coyote)

Average probably 60 yards

 


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