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With a steady rest 200 yards. I'd work to get closer if any farther.
Lying on the ground with a bipod on a calm day maybe 300.
Once on a blacktail hunt a buddy of mine, who I know shoots well, nailed a small buck from a good 400. I thought it was down, but it got up and Tony shot it again. I think if we had worked to get 100 closer it wouldn't have turned out that way. What a waste of good meat.
I don't know much about ballistics, but I remember the exit hole in its leg being almost baseball size. If the buck had been shot at closer range we theorized it would have gone down in shock and stayed down. Maybe the wind took it . He was shooting Federal 165 grain boattails in 30-06.
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