What is your maximum comfortable range?

[dscubame]

Guys be nice to each other or suffer the consequences.

Not called for almighty one.

Yeah, you may be right for now....  seen these get pretty ugly in the past.

I give it page 5 and you'll have to shut her down.  But ya so far so good.

As far as comfortable range is concerned I am one who was brought up hunting and shooting open sights by the last of the open sight generation.  Most of my peers if not all had optics from day one and I am confident that still is true for majority.  Good to those fathers who insist they tootilidge their siblings open sights until they are out of the house as it makes a very good shooter in the long haul.

 150 yds max and due to the simple fact that the target becomes to small and that would be elk and pushing my comfort level, 100 yards on deer and pushing it also.  Not saying it cannot be done it is just not cool to not have a precise hit for a precise quick kill. 

Now with proper equipment and training you can witness black powder (not muzzleloader) shooters hit 500 to 1,000 yard open sight at competiton.  Ever watch the trajectory of that bullet?  It lobs 20 feet I swear!  And takes many seconds to hear the hit on iron.

[lokidog]

450 yards max.

Muzzleloader??    Hmmmm.....   

[longstevo]

Guys be nice to each other or suffer the consequences.

Not called for almighty one.

Yeah, you may be right for now....  seen these get pretty ugly in the past.

I give it page 5 and you'll have to shut her down.  But ya so far so good.

Yeah, didn't mean to start a flame war.  I was just wondering how my comfort level stacked up with other hunters.  Sounds like I need to start practicing more.  There's no way I'd be personally comfortable with a shot past 150. 

[WestPlains_Drifter]

Well......Before this week i was totally comfortable shooting at 150-175yds with my elkhorn. But after make a crappy shot on a cow on Sunday at 140yds I have changed it down to 125. I can hit a pie plate @ 200, but things change when the moment hits. Live and learn

[jechicdr]

Back before they allowed sabots in WA, only lead projectiles...had a cow elk at 75 yards...lined up the off hand shot at 75 yards at chest...took the shot...when the smoke cleared.  There was no sign of the elk.  Walked up to where she was and found her dropped right there with a bullet through the brain.  Got lucky on that one.  I can actually shoot my bow more accurately at 75 yards than I could with my muzzleloader.  Hunted midwest with scope and sabots and took deer at 150 yards and target practiced at 200.  Basically the gun is accurate, but the sights are not.  Without a rest, I'd limit myself to bow range.  With a rest would leave it at 100.  With a scope, out to 200.

[Kowsrule30]

150 would be about my max for deer if all the stars aligned.... Maybe 175 for elk..... Again if everything was perfect..... I paseed up a shot on a 26" wide 2x3 MD last year cause I couldn't hold the bead on him steady @ 168 yards....When I could get a rest all I could see was his head and upper neck..... So I let him walk.... But everybody in camp except a few said I should've shot or they would've laid him down..... I just didn't feel comfortable with the shot so I chose to pass.... I have shot a BT doe at 172 yards a few years ago on the last day of late deer.... My range finder said 142..... Turns out I lined up on a deer directy above her on the slope.... Dropped her with a low heart shot and watched the doe I really ranged stare at me as I stood up..... But to tell you the truth I probably would've taken the 172 yard shot if I knew it was that far in those conditions again.... It's hard for me to focus on the sights while trying to keep them lined up on a kill shot much farther then 125 yards.... So I have a mental mind game for any range.... Focus on the kill zone.... Let the shot come.... When I'm focused on the kill shot the sights come together and I squeeze off...... I had 20/20 plus vision til I was 17.... My first ML purchase was a used one.... An early inline with rear nipple and exsposed hammer..... It blew the nipple and hammer into my face on the second shot.... I now have glasses along with a bunch of metal and powder still in my face 11 years later.... I'm still working with my eye doc to find the perfect set up for hunting and work... Not an easy or cheap process....

[scudmaster]

100...conditions were right and a great rest 150

  Same for me