What's your overall average range/distance

[Die Judicii]

Regardless of what caliber or firearm you may use for varminting (which would encompass the likes of rabbits right through to large pigs,
What would be your overall average range, for successful kills ?

And do you think that your own particular style of hunting is a factor in what your average shot range is ?

Does it vary wildly or remain fairly constant ?

[mickb]

I'm in the wrong category as I only shoot with a 44 mag these days in fairly heavy scrub but will add my 2c. Main distances about 75 yards or less, however I can stretch the gun to 130 yards or so.

[Wapiti]

Good topic DJ, I wonder what others think here.
I notice you didn't let on your own experiences here mate!

I ran around with a rangefinder a bit a few years ago, because I kept seeing people writing they routinely shoot animals at 350, 400 yards and further.
I found that 99% of my shots are taken within 200m, I'd say most of those under 150m.
I can tell very closely now and judge distance, and I am continually surprised when visitors or hunters here call the distance as
Oh man, that's 300 yards" but it's 200. Or whatever.

I can easily tell too, if I go to take a shot from the padded shooting bars on the buggies or from the ute, and I just can't get a steady bead or some other reason it's difficult, it will be too far away. More than 200.
This is because most of the shots I take are headshots, and the head dead-zone is small. I do it without thinking about it, strange eh?
I know this because I spent a heap of time using the rangefinder. Used to drive my wife nuts.

Walking on my hind legs with a lighter hunting type rifle, the distance I can hold steady on is less that that above, by quite a bit.

I also went through a stage of getting sucked in by the "accessory metal chassis" bullshite, and found most of the damn things have round, useless forends that rock and wobble, being meant for bipods. That doesn't cut it for farm shooting. Also, the pistol grip also makes it rock from the influence offline with the bore.
That's why I love the flat-bottom varmint style conventionally shaped stocks, from rests and trees I can shoot steadier.
Ditching the chassis AR-15-lookalike things immediately made my 200m shots easier.

[mchughcb]

6m to 40m normally with shotgun

With 3006 anything ranged at less than 150m gets a bullet.

[No1Mk3]

When I used to hunt, 90% of my shots were from 70 to 100 yards with most closer to the lower figure. I generally hunted hilly forest and river flats and to me the stalk in was at least, if not more, important than the kill. The only time I had to shoot longer ranges was hunting Thar and Chamois in the Southern Alps where shots over bare alpine moraine and scree slopes precluded close stalks so shots were 150 to 200 yards. Anything longer I didn't take.