20 yards on whitetail.
16 on turkey.
about 12' on spruce grouse.

made a couple of 40 yard kills.... one on a whitetail deer from the ground and a pronghorn was out at about 40 but I was shooting good.....I like 30 and inwards but like most hunters like the 20 to 25 yard shot...some days I pass on 30 yard shots if I don't feel like I am "in the zone"

most of the deer i kill are less than 18-20 yards.  I have killed some farther, but i would rather keep it closer...that is why we hunt with a stick, right?

Farthest shot is a red fox at 41 steps.

BAB

QuoteOriginally posted by Bill Carlsen:
55 paces on a caribou. 70 yards on a gray squirrel.

I could not see a bushy tail at 70 yards......  

I stretched a shot on a deer all the way out to 20 yards once, killed her, everything else has been 15 or less.

With my recurve 21 yards.

I only tried a longer shot in my 2nd or 3rd year bow hunting when I was 17 or 18 years old. I was very fortunate...I missed badly, as I should have. In more than 40 years since I have never tried such a shot again and won't.

I did kill a Pepsi can at about 70 yards with some co-eds walking by the range in the fall of 1973. Shaved my feathers right off the arrow-- bummer!

Point-on with my current set-up is 33 yards. I can "kill" my 3D targets better at that range than at 25. However, I am almost certain I would never attempt it on a live, unwounded animal.

My longest kill shot was 20 yards. All others have been 15 or less.

Longest was a 65 yd shot on a 6 pt back when it was acceptable to shoot long range. First kill was a doe at 55 yds. 30 yds is about as far as I will shoot anymore. Prefer about 15 to 20 yds.     Denny Sturgis Sr

43 yrds on a Montana Gopher. Then my buddy Doug hit one at 53 yrds.

32 yds Complete pass thru this year. 53@28 Stalker recurve, Beman shaft with Simmons shark head. Total arrow weight 550 grains.

15yd on deer and javelina, 30yd on a chipmunk, 39yd on a groundhog, 40yd on a squirrel, 60yd on a bird, and 150yd on a ground mole.

The mole was quite by accident. I was out in the hay field shooting arrows up in the air and noticed blood on my arrow when I pulled it from the ground.

63 steps on a blue grouse.  40+ on a hog that had been wounded by a compound guy in the group I was in. 23 steps on an unwounded unaware whitetail.  Most of mine are 10-18 steps. I love the 10-12 step shots, never messed one of those up.

Chris

26 or 27 yards on the bull I shot this year. See avatar for details  

I've only shot at a couple deer over 20 yards. Killed them both. I had a buck and a doe come across a field to me where I sat in stand in a finger of woods. I was over 21' high in the stand cause it was almost at the base of a small ridge and I was only 5' higher than a deer 20 yards away. The doe came down low to my left and I shot her at about 12 yards while the buck was up on the high trail. I knew he was over 20 so took the closer shot on the doe. He just stood there watching while the doe ran off. When I looked back at him and saw him just standing there, I just nocked an arrow and shot him.
A liitle bit later my hunting buddy comes over and I tell him I shot 2. He says where were they standing? I tell him the doe was standing right where he was. Where was the buck? I tell him to go up the hill. As he moves up the hill, he keeps looking at me saying "here?' He starts looking at me funny as I keep motioning him away. When I finall stopped him, he looked at me like I was crazy. My average shot on deer is under 11 yards in 35+ years of bowhunting. The buck was 27 yards and I believe I made the shot cause he was almost same level with me.
Longest kill was a rabbit at 42 yards and a groundhog at 36 yards. Small game is easierm to shoot at long range cause if you hit you usually kill. I won't take that kind of shot on a big game animal.

QuoteOriginally posted by Roger Norris:
Some pretty long shots on small game, but I don't think I have ever shot at a big game animal beyond 20 yards.

Just to clarify why....perfect heart/lung shot placement isn't critical on a rabbit....it is on a deer.

AMEN!  I keep my whitetail shots to 25 or less but practice out to 80 yards on stumps and 3-D.  

A rabbit gives up the ghost easily - not so deer (or squirrels).  But it seems at 25 yards you either hit or cleanly miss a squirrel.  If you do wound one the arrow usually slows it down for a coup de mercì with the spine of a knife to the neck or a second arrow.

Being a squirrel must not be the worst way to make a living because they do seem to hang on to life tenaciously.

I killed a coyote right at 40 once.  made a perfect shot as well.  complete luck.

My first traditional deer was a long shot, over 35 yards. I hit her in the gut and thankfully found her. All my shots on deer have been between 15-35 otherwise. I haven't been blessed with those close shots since going to traditional gear in 2008.
Ironically, the only 2 deer I have wounded/lost have been my closest shots, one of them was straight down with a compound-my first deer, we found her several days later about 1/4 mile away, the shot was great idk what happended.

I don't think that's a question a gentleman asks a stick shooter.  Now my closest has been about 10 feet straight down.

closest was 8 feet on ground...I was in myrtle cluster, doe walked beside it.

Ron W...he was near a feeder we have across the pond. Wide open back yard kind of thing. I would periodically shoot at them as my bow set up was near point on at that distance. Actually got two like that. There were many misses before there was a kill. But it was fun watching the arrows fly over the pond....sort of an enhanced Muzzy shot at White #1.