How far can you shoot?

How far can you shoot?

  • 50 yards

    Votes: 3 4.0%

  • 100 yards

    Votes: 22 29.3%

  • 250 yards

    Votes: 24 32.0%

  • 500 yards

    Votes: 11 14.7%

  • 1000 yards

    Votes: 13 17.3%

  • Spear Chucking Distance

    Votes: 2 2.7%
  • Total voters
    75
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This isn't a question on your personal capability.

This is a question based on your geographic location. What is the longest distance(average) that you would realistically be able to engage your desired targets. This could be deer hunting, poking holes in paper, fending off the zombie hoarde…whatever you plan on shooting.

Was thinking while driving today how functionally useable firearms could change from one end of the state to the other.

For me, realistically 80-100 yards

How does this influence your firearm choices?
 
I havent been deer hunting in years, so I am really basing my number on bird hunting and self defense. I dont have an overly large house, so 5-10 yards indoors would be the limit. Outdoors I am in a neighborhood where most line of site that I could consider a "threat" would be less than 50 yards. So unless its some really strange scenaro (which have happened in the world) I couldnt imagine a self defense scenario based on my lifestyle that would be greater than 50 yards.
 
dorton said:
... What is the longest distance(average) that you would realistically be able to engage your desired targets[?] ... How does this influence your firearm choices?
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Good questions! I have been thinking about this very thing for the past five years, as I reconfigure my hardware profile. I know the answer to the poll question, but I am still not 100% convinced that there is one proper solution. I'll be very interested in seeing the replies.
 
Assuming the Zombie Hordes arrive by car, I’ve got a clear shot at ‘em from the front door; a distance of just under 150 yards.
 
300 yards. If we would clear it out 900 yards.

Inside the house about 50 feet.
 
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The vast majority of my shooting is at paper and steel, my local range goes to 200yds. Most of my hunting in NC has been that or less. So I picked 250.

There are quite a few places I pass regularly with 500yds open, if you knew land owners or necessity. I have never shot past 500yds, though I lived a long time where I had ample opportunity :(.
 
Where I shoot, out to 650 yds. There are plenty of places around here where I could get 1000, 1200 or more. Would have to find out who owns the land and get permission to shoot there.
 
At my local range, I can shoot 300 yards, because that's the length of the rifle range.

If I'm visiting my family property down east, I could set something in the 500-600 yard range in the bean field. Before I moved up here, I did have a 25 yard and 100 yard target frame set up along the field edge.
 
About 400-600yds. to the top of each hill on either end of the road. Otherwise, 200-300yds in some areas around the property. Does it affect my firearms choices? Absolutely! I want as much stand off from the house as possible. Beyond 300yds is preferred and this is where a precision rifle comes into play.
 
It depends.....

Recreational shooting: My club has a 300 yard range so I can punch paper or hammer steel at that range on the regular (though I rarely get as much time to as I'd like).
Hunting: Most of my stands have a realistic max of about 60-70 yards where I hunt. That's mostly informed by the way I hunt though. I don't like sitting on the edge of big cornfields and shooting deer on the other side so much. I prefer to get into creek bottoms and out of the way places. So that limits the range of how far I can see and thus how far I can shoot. Now the farm I hunt has several big fields and I could theoretically shoot 400+ yards at some specific angles.
Zombie hordes: If they ain't within 100 yards I'm running instead of gunning. Gunfire draws more of them. :D


As to how this has affected my firearm choices.....

Most of my rifles are either 5.56 or .300 blackout. I use the .300 for hunting because within the ranges I hunt it does the job exceptionally well. I have a couple of .308 bolt guns and one .30-06, but they rarely get used. I also hunt a bit with .45 Colt in a revolver or carbine platform.
 
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300 yards max. I picked 250 because it's closest.
 
My club goes to 700, but I can get to a public 1,000 yard range within 1 hour. So, I picked 1,000.
 
I failed to answer the "firearm choices part" so pardon the second post...

It does greatly impact my choices. I would love to be able to get into long range precision shooting...but it just isn't something that is really available to me as an option, so nearly all of my purchases are utilitarian. Accurate <300 yard hunting rifles, accurate <200 ARs/AR Pistols, accurate <25 yard pistols.
 
How has local terrain influenced my choices? Local terrain has determined what has been commonly owned and successfully used in surrounding Counties. When the trend-setters move on to the next big thing, there tend to be good deals on an oversupply of the "local standards" some of them are moving on from, leaving a bargain or two to be found on a good example of it for me.

I keep one tree stand in the woods where any viable shot would be <50yds, 30-30 lever with Williams peeps (I like irons) for that, or I do have a 336 in .35Rem scoped 1-3x20, and I keep one stand on the edge of a bean field where +/- 400yards would be max. but unlikely over 200... .308 bolt scoped for that. My main home "range" has rests at 50yd, 100yd, and 135yds. For fun I like to sit at the 135 and shoot my old Marlin 60 w/Fire Sights (I like irons) at metal where I can routinely hit soccer-ball sized targets, so when the zombies come I'll aim for their balls.
 
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Maximum distance at my range (DPRC) is 315 yds. Where I hunt I could potentially shoot 200 yds or so, but have never taken a shot there over 150 and avg shot on a deer is 50-75 yds.
 
I missed the firearm part too.
Lack of regular place to stretch it out has kept me from prioritizing any sort of Magnum, or 6/6.5mm hotness. Not that they can't be used shorter.
 
Member of Frontline Defense in Warrenton, NC and have access to the 1,000yd range after taking the long range class.
 
Zombies or Antifa coming down my street it would be about 100 yards. Never had an opportunity to shoot further then 125 yards.
 
My club range goes out to 400 yards at this time. I have a stretch of abandoned railroad bed on my land that could be used for a range slightly over 1,000 yards if I built a berm and cleared away a few branches. That might be a project for the near future.
 
I ranged my mailbox at 450 yards. Anything between my house and the box is clear field and driveway. Working on 1,000 yard target this weekend due to brush issues. This is our 900 yard target. It was a tough day, with
winds blowing 15 with gusts to 25 from left to right, right to left! But we got some hits with the 6.5's. About an 9 inch "group", roughly. It was kind of funny. We were tearing up a 12 X 18 inch steel at 800 but that extra 100 yards busted our butts.


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100+/- around the property maybe a bit more... At the ranges around here up to 1k...

Effectively... 42 centimeters...
 
Center fire rifle out to 300yds but getting hard to see those targets, so more lead sent at 200 and 100. Rim fire out to 150 yds but usually play at 50 and 75. Pistol almost all targets at 25 yds except the plate rack at 11 and my good close friend, the Wizard
 
House to the mailbox is 0.25mil hold, and that's where the zombies would probably enter the property from.

Back in CA I used to get out to 600 yards regularly, and my equipment reflected that. That cool stuff just sits in the safe anymore; the club I frequent here has steel at 200 and my poverty pony hits that just fine.

My one and only elk was taken at 452 yards (300WSM). I've hit rabbits in the desert at 125 yards (17 HMR). Since moving here... I took an alligator in FL at like 40 yards and pig at maybe 150. So damn many trees!
 
The place I have a backstop is about 250. I have a place that's 400+ ,but sadly no way to put up a backstop.
 
Our range has has a 1200 that you have to get tested on to use. The fields around here are massive, some as far as you can see.

Zombie hoard pickoff as far as possible.
Neighborhood raid distance from 100 yards to half mile depending on direction.
Everything else is probably inside 100 yards.
 
My shooting range's longest range is 300 yards. The property I'm currently hunting is more set up for bow hunting, so clear shots only go out to 50 yards. Great question! :)
 
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