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What is your average kill distance?

Started by LURP DOG, August 03, 2012, 12:16:00 PM

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Red Tailed Hawk

#20
August 03, 2012, 05:09:00 PM
12 yards
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Jason R. Wesbrock

#21
August 03, 2012, 05:23:00 PM
I've always kept very detailed notes of every big game animal I've taken. The last the last time I crunched the numbers my average shot distance was between 14 and 15 yards.

Shedrock

#22
August 03, 2012, 05:30:00 PM
12-15 yards
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rbcorbitt

#23
August 03, 2012, 06:21:00 PM
David,

Cool to see a post from someone from Crozet.  I went to Crozet Elementary many moons ago.  I'm a trad newbie - just picked up my first recurve this past December (now have 4 recurves and 4 longbows).  No trad kills, yet.  But I feel good about this season.

Experience with training wheel bow this past season (shot 5 deer with bow) was an average of 18 yds.

Welcome to the old school way!
"I would rather be amongst forest animals and the sounds of nature, then amongst city traffic and the noise of man" - A.D. Williams

Mongo

#24
August 03, 2012, 06:32:00 PM
The last deer I shot was at 6 feet.  The average shot is about 14 yds (primarily hogs).
If God didn't want man to eat animals, he wouldn't have made them out of meat.

#25
August 03, 2012, 06:33:00 PM
The last 20 some deer have been between 18 and 30 yards, it is easier for me as a ground hunter to have a bit of a distance from the trail.

Cochise

#26
August 03, 2012, 06:40:00 PM
Practice from 20 yards back to 5 in every conceivable shooting contortion and you will be
good to go !

Landshark160

#27
August 03, 2012, 07:28:00 PM
Over 44 traditional deer kills, my average distance is 12.48 yards.  Three long shots of 35, 30, and 25 really hurt my average.  The rest were 20 and under.  I've killed 24 at 10 yards or less.
Chris
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JParanee

#28
August 03, 2012, 09:07:00 PM
10 to 12  yds
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JParanee

#29
August 03, 2012, 09:17:00 PM
10 to 12  yds
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Silvertip 1 Piece 57#-Silvertip 57#-Black Widow Ma II 61#&69#-Fedora 560 69#- 560 57#-560 60#-560 55#-Brakenbury Shadow 60#-Hoyt Buffalo 55#- Bob Lee 58#- fishing bows PSE's

katie

#30
August 03, 2012, 09:22:00 PM
10 yards
"Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity"  John Muir

Kingsnake

#31
August 03, 2012, 09:40:00 PM
I am sooooo happy to see the number of posts that say 12 yards is their average shot.  Since I have recently transitioned to trad, I have been kicking myself for my inability to do what I had been doing with a sighted compound.  I think I can hunt this year, as long as I discipline myself to keep it close.

Kingsnake   :archer:

JamesKerr

#32
August 04, 2012, 01:20:00 AM
10-15 yards.
James Kerr

Hoyt

#33
August 04, 2012, 12:08:00 PM
Most of the time 5 to 10 steps from tree. I killed two last season about 18 steps, but that's not the norm for me.

doubleo

#35
August 04, 2012, 01:12:00 PM
10 to 12 yard ave.
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Tom

#36
August 04, 2012, 04:25:00 PM
12-15 yds average, longest 27 yds.
The essence of the hunt for me is to enter nature and observe+ return safely occasionally with the gift of a life taken.

#37
August 04, 2012, 07:52:00 PM
QuoteOriginally posted by pavan:
The last 20 some deer have been between 18 and 30 yards, it is easier for me as a ground hunter to have a bit of a distance from the trail.
X2 for Whitetails....from the ground and an average of 18 yards.

bluej

#38
August 04, 2012, 10:27:00 PM
Ten yards or less, no need to shoot them any farther if you don't have to. I've missed one or two at ten because I don't practice that close enough.

JimB

#39
August 04, 2012, 10:29:00 PM
18 yds.
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