• If you are being asked to change your password, and unsure how to do it, follow these instructions. Click here

Longest Big Game Kill With Rifle

In the last 12 months, what was your longest rifle kill on big game?

  • 0 to 200 yards

    Votes: 1,160 26.4%
  • 201 to 400 yards

    Votes: 1,438 32.7%
  • 401 to 600 yards

    Votes: 1,020 23.2%
  • 601 to 800 yards

    Votes: 460 10.5%
  • 801 to 1,000 yards

    Votes: 168 3.8%
  • Over 1,000 yards

    Votes: 153 3.5%

  • Total voters
    4,399
Big game, last 12 months? 80 yards .338 federal. I hunted some thick gnarly timber a couple of times last year. For the area that was a long shot.

Anytime I got out to some of my long range areas nothing, wanted to come out and play. It's all good though I'll take big game however I can get them.

I would like to stretch the legs on my .300 RUM this year though.
 
Longest big game kill in the last 12 months was a white tail 6 point buck last Oct, thought he was a 8 point but he had no brow tines I later found out. I had to shoot quick. I was walking to my hunting stand in the evening. I just entered the log road that I was going to hunt that had two huge cut overs on either side. Out pops the buck and two doe. I knew that they were right at 300 yards because they were right at the bend of the road where my stand was. I dropped down in the prone position and cranked the Zeiss 3-12X56 up to 12. I sent a 117 gr Sierra pro hunter pushed by 49 grs IMR 4350 lit by a CCI 250 primer in a Remington case going 3050 fps down the 26" SS #6 Shilen barrel of my 700 Remington action H&S Precision stocked 25-06 Remington caliber rifle in about half the time it took me to type this. I was rewarded with a POP as the 117 Sierra pro hunter landed in the center of the bucks front shoulder and he dropped like a rock. Later lazed at 307 yards.
 
1,536 yards across the ridges in W.V. National Forest.Ranged with a Swarovski Laser and shot with a improved .338 Lapua.Rifle was a Stiller Tac 338 action (single shot),Broughton 1/9.3 twist barrel,McMillan A-5 Stock,Nightforce 5x22.5 NXS Scope ect. that i built.
 
Update for me:
1,037 yards on a antelope buck. 17" 1-9 twist Lilja Center-Grip Remington XP-100 in 7mm-270WSM. Built by Kirby Allen and owned by Dan Bower. FFP NXS 3.5-15 NightForce. Shooting prone with a Harris Bi-pod (Swivel version). 162 A-Max.
 
Threw together an old Savage J action($250 with stock & mounts) with a 708 barrel ($35 well used takeoff) I had laying around here, put a 3-9 Sightron mildot($100 used) scope on it for an economical walk-about gun. Ended up with IMR3031/120BT for a load and checkt drop charts against the mildot in the field to find they where very close but made notes of the difference. The plan was really not for a long range shot but was glad I had the info to get-r-done as it workt out to be 673 yards. Have shot prairie dogs dang near twice this far but this is the longest big game shot to date.
2 years ago I used a 300 Weatherby dialed to 1000 and got a shot at 135 yards.....All we can do is be prepaired or be patient=I aint patientgun)
 
585 yards with my ruger 300 win mag 180 gr accubond over 75.5grs of rl22,on a 6ft timber wolf. A touch over 400 meters, 300 ultra mag 180gr tsx over 88grs rl 25 on a yukon bc moose gun)
 
716 yards on a whitetail buck across a corn field . . . with a slight (6-8 mph) wind from 2 o'clock. 7mm Wby. with a good ole 139gr. Hornady BTSP. Some of these other posts are unbelievable. Makes me glad I'm not in their sights!
 
375 yards here. I'm looking for a bullet/powder combo for my 7mm R mag at this time to get into shooting in the 400-500 yard range. Two schools of thought, one is that a bonded bullet will have expansion issues at extended ranges from a 7mag, the other is regular bullets will blow up too soon a closer range, not penetrating enough? Difficult decision without more info...
 
In the past 12 months.......
Heart shot doe antelope. Near home in Wyoming.
408 yds....one shot.
Rem BDL 25-06 with Barnes 100gr. TSX Factory Load. 12X Leupold scope.

Have taken a couple other antlelope and a couple deer at 400 to 500 yds in the past. All with 25-06 caliber rifles.
 
Last edited:
Warning! This thread is more than 7 years ago old.
It's likely that no further discussion is required, in which case we recommend starting a new thread. If however you feel your response is required you can still do so.
Top