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At what distance do your kill your deer?

What distance have you killed most of your archery deer?

  • 1 to 10 yards

    Votes: 10 18.9%

  • 10-20 yards

    Votes: 46 86.8%

  • 20-30 yards

    Votes: 11 20.8%

  • 30-40 yards

    Votes: 1 1.9%

  • 40-50 yards

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Greater than 50 yards

    Votes: 2 3.8%
  • Total voters
    53
20 yards is the sweet spot for me. If a deer gives me a 20 yard broadside shot and I have a tag, it's going to die. I shot one last year directly beneath me and it ran 50 to 60 yards without a heart (great blood trail). The ones I shoot broadside at 20 tend to hop and fall over within sight.
 
Shot a bunch under twenty and some at 60ish. I have shot an antelope buck at 80 and one at 105. Both went less than 10 yards after the shot.
 
Most of mine have been between 10-20 with a couple of handfulls between 20-30. Longest was 48 yards. It was a wide open shot across a pond and I ten ringed that rascal. He was standing still, perfectly broadside and looked like a McKenzie 3D target. The conditions were ideal and I knew I was going to kill him before I sent it.

Closest was 7 yards on the ground behind my house. Felt like the Simmons was cutting hair before the feathers were clear of the WB. It was a quarter to frontal shot and he made two jumps and tumped over dead as a hammer. I'm still shaking from that one.
 
I've killed a handful right underneath me and I killed one at 49 yards once. Hit her perfectly and she fell within site too. I've noticed over the years that they just don't react to the shot if it's out past 35 yards or so. Vast majority have been 10 to 20 yards and about 18 yards is the sweet spot for me. I've probably shot around 100 or so deer in the last 47 years.
 
All my deer have been under 30, closest was 5. My first saddle kill was a fall turkey at 50 yards.
 
I won’t shoot a deer in the woods over 30. I’ve shot them in a cut ag field at 55. My largest was at 18yds


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I kinda wish this was broken down in 5 yard chunks. I've killed two with 21-24 yard shots but passed as many times closer to 30.
 
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