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Re: Distance you have killed a whitetail deer?
« Reply #120 on: September 12, 2010, 10:42:05 AM »
my average is 43 yards.
shortest shot was 5 yards and my longest 100 yards.
 

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Re: Distance you have killed a whitetail deer?
« Reply #121 on: September 12, 2010, 12:50:38 PM »
I'm also very curious what the heck the bag limit is for deer in the areas where you guys are killing over 300 in a lifetime even...It's 1 per season out here.  Guy would have to get pretty old around here to do that....

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Re: Distance you have killed a whitetail deer?
« Reply #122 on: September 12, 2010, 02:28:04 PM »
All of mine are under 100 yards.

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Re: Distance you have killed a whitetail deer?
« Reply #123 on: September 22, 2010, 12:26:51 PM »
Last deer taken was 67 paces; I did take one at 150 yards a few years back and that's the longest shot in a very long time. I sight my rifles for 1" high at 100 which puts them just a tad low at 200 with my short action standard calibers. I hunt mostly timber and brush with some farm fields mixed in here in Northwestern PA.

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Re: Distance you have killed a whitetail deer?
« Reply #124 on: September 22, 2010, 05:40:24 PM »
87 killed by my best count, longest shot was 160 steps. I have killed 4 bucks at less than 10'. I powder burned a large nine point with a muzzleloader at about 4' or less. Most were killed with a bow 10 to 20 yards. I hunt close in thick cover.
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Re: Distance you have killed a whitetail deer?
« Reply #125 on: September 22, 2010, 06:44:36 PM »
87 killed by my best count, longest shot was 160 steps. I have killed 4 bucks at less than 10'. I powder burned a large nine point with a muzzleloader at about 4' or less. Most were killed with a bow 10 to 20 yards. I hunt close in thick cover.

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I powder burned a large nine point with a muzzleloader at about 4' or less.

Now thats close neighbor!  :o  A possible "close" record! and I'm not kidding!
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Re: Distance you have killed a whitetail deer?
« Reply #126 on: September 22, 2010, 11:40:54 PM »
I touched a doe on the nose with the barrel of my gun one time during buck season. I think I was more afraid than the deer was.

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Re: Distance you have killed a whitetail deer?
« Reply #127 on: September 23, 2010, 02:02:12 AM »
Well I once had a doe eat an apple off of the window sill of my ground blind inches from my face but that'll be in the "distance you have encountered a whitetail thread"   ;D
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Re: Distance you have killed a whitetail deer?
« Reply #128 on: September 23, 2010, 02:12:56 AM »
87 killed by my best count, longest shot was 160 steps. I have killed 4 bucks at less than 10'. I powder burned a large nine point with a muzzleloader at about 4' or less. Most were killed with a bow 10 to 20 yards. I hunt close in thick cover.

I think my brother has you beat. He shot a doe with his bow on a fence line so close that the arrow had not even cleared the rest by the time it hit the deer. He said the deer was inches from the bow.
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Re: Distance you have killed a whitetail deer?
« Reply #129 on: September 23, 2010, 04:38:00 AM »
This goes in the encounters category, but I have a picture of me petting a 6 point buck in Yosemite National Park.
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Re: Distance you have killed a whitetail deer?
« Reply #130 on: September 23, 2010, 12:36:40 PM »
  I use to have a bull moose that would come to my house.  I'd walk out on the porch, and give him a bit of lettice, and he would let me pet him on the back.

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Re: Distance you have killed a whitetail deer?
« Reply #131 on: October 12, 2010, 05:41:46 PM »
Ok here goes the average!   The post says "killed" and I have "sniped" a few, I think its wayyy harder to find a good long shot than a close
one, notice I said a GOOD shot no wind, good light, good rest, not too much coffee.

4 longest kills total 3300yds
shortest- other side of the tree I was hiding behind
Bow, handgun, rifle, 72 deer total

Guess them long ones didn't help much,       63 yard average

And I live  "out west" where you need a flat shooting rifle and at least a 14x scope!

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Re: Distance you have killed a whitetail deer?
« Reply #132 on: October 12, 2010, 06:08:57 PM »
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4 longest kills total 3300yds

Thats an 825 yard average!!!  :o  Good shootn pard!
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Re: Distance you have killed a whitetail deer?
« Reply #133 on: October 18, 2010, 02:36:31 AM »
I shot a nice eight point Thursday (10/14) with muzzleloader, at about... 10 yards, if that. Lots of foliage up, so couldn't see far... deer wandered under my tree. From time to first seeing him to shooting was about ten seconds. GOOD DAY, but then a very long drag...

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Re: Distance you have killed a whitetail deer?
« Reply #134 on: November 13, 2010, 08:17:31 AM »
6 yds with 00 buck in Texas. 375 yds on Colorado Mulie. But average for Texas for me is about 20-25 yds. I only hunt bow stands with either crossbow or handgun.

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Re: Distance you have killed a whitetail deer?
« Reply #135 on: November 13, 2010, 08:35:01 AM »
354.8 miles.......from my bedroom to the tree stand ;D ;D
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Re: Distance you have killed a whitetail deer?
« Reply #136 on: November 13, 2010, 08:42:00 AM »
I would guestamate my average to be about fifty yards. Closest was less than ten longest about two hundred. The vast majority was 30-40 yards. That's for rifle, pistol and archery.

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Re: Distance you have killed a whitetail deer?
« Reply #137 on: November 13, 2010, 06:18:05 PM »
Avg. 100 and under
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Re: Distance you have killed a whitetail deer?
« Reply #138 on: November 16, 2010, 09:43:42 AM »
avg........25 yards

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Re: Distance you have killed a whitetail deer?
« Reply #139 on: November 16, 2010, 10:19:08 AM »
Welcome to gbo front loader and that is a good short shot.Maybe its your stalking skills that make that possible.
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Re: Distance you have killed a whitetail deer?
« Reply #140 on: November 20, 2010, 05:14:48 PM »
Average 75, most less but have had a couple out west quite long that bring the average up :)
But Most MN have been 50 - 65yds.  thejanitor

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Re: Distance you have killed a whitetail deer?
« Reply #141 on: November 20, 2010, 05:37:16 PM »
This year I ahve only had one withing 100 yards when hunting, and she was in brush. Southern MN deer hunting has been very poor this year. Going to Ohio to the inlaw after Thanksgiving, hopefully my luck will change.
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Re: Distance you have killed a whitetail deer?
« Reply #142 on: November 20, 2010, 06:10:49 PM »
Only one.  In Moderate fog at 100 paces, standing off-hand, scope was way off, and I may have pulled left too.  Aimed at heart.  Hit 'em high in the neckbone.  Spun him from 3/4 angle to head away and dropped right there.  Only reason I saw him was I'd brush-hogged that area only a few days before, and there appeared to be a large shrub standing there.  I was walking with gun slung over my shoulder.  Couldn't believe I didn't cut that shrub down as big as it was, so pulled the gun down to scope it.  Shrub was a Big 8 Pointer.
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Re: Distance you have killed a whitetail deer?
« Reply #143 on: November 21, 2010, 02:15:03 AM »
This one, on Weds 11/17, was at about 25-30 yards. Angling away - I grunted, and he inconsiderately stopped behind a very large pine, necessitating a neck shot as chest/shoulders were obscured. Here was the good news with this deer: the 350 yard drag back to the car was mostly downhill!
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Re: Distance you have killed a whitetail deer?
« Reply #144 on: November 21, 2010, 02:23:47 AM »
  I shot a couple deer a few days ago at about 125 yards.

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Re: Distance you have killed a whitetail deer?
« Reply #145 on: November 23, 2010, 02:06:48 AM »
11-21-10 8:25 am  rattled this one up less than a minute after I started rattling.  16 steps from tree stand. Shot with .223 Handi rifle base of the neck.
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Re: Distance you have killed a whitetail deer?
« Reply #146 on: November 24, 2010, 08:21:20 AM »
Hunt in a high north wind.... they can't smell and can't hear "mistakes". That's how you get 6 yds with buckshot (:  20 MPH gusts aint bad in close cover.

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Re: Distance you have killed a whitetail deer?
« Reply #147 on: November 25, 2010, 12:30:39 AM »
I'm also very curious what the heck the bag limit is for deer in the areas where you guys are killing over 300 in a lifetime even...It's 1 per season out here.  Guy would have to get pretty old around here to do that....

South Carolina has a LONG deer season.  In a lot of the State's Private land there is NO Daily bag limit on bucks, NO Season limit on bucks, NO size restrictions, and liberal doe days where a 2-doe limit per day is imposed (no season limit).  In a single season it is not impossible for a local to "rack up" 50 (or more) deer. 

I hunt the SC Western Piedmont for 10-days annually (18 straight seasons) as a non-resident where Private land bag limits of 2 deer per day and 10 deer per season are imposed.  It is not unusual for me to kill 6-8 deer in 10 days.  They add up over the years.  Then I hunt my own land for 60 days and possibly kill 2 more (but the average for me in FL is MUCH LESS than 1 deer per year in 24 years of ownership). 

Ask me about FL hogs and the number gets interesting as bagged average over 25 annually.

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Re: Distance you have killed a whitetail deer?
« Reply #148 on: November 25, 2010, 03:16:27 AM »
  We have baglimits here....on private land, it's 5 does a day.... no total limit.

  I have NO desire to shoot deer in those amounts though.

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Re: Distance you have killed a whitetail deer?
« Reply #149 on: November 25, 2010, 10:12:02 PM »
South Carolina has a LONG deer season.  In a lot of the State's Private land there is NO Daily bag limit on bucks, NO Season limit on bucks, NO size restrictions, and liberal doe days where a 2-doe limit per day is imposed (no season limit).  In a single season it is not impossible for a local to "rack up" 50 (or more) deer. 

Wow!! Where do you put all the meat?

I got two does on opening day and had to have a friend fire up his second freezer to handle the overflow.

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