N/A Average Distance of your shooting sessions?

Pfddi said:

I have a 30 yard range in my backyard hidden between the side of the house and the neighbor's fence, so I use it for sighting in and HFT practice to that range (the 30-55 suffers!). At the range I regularaly shoot 25, 50, 100 and 200 just to keep my "skills" tuned. For pesting, most everything is sub 100 yards although I will take pigeons, starlings and other small game out to 150. Longest kill this summer was 143 yards DRT. Most impressive (and mostly luck) was an 84 yard kill with a GK1 freehand!

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but dd u do it?

For years I was shooting my .25 Impact MK2 100 meter rings in my gun club from a bench. Tried all pellets and slugs and the results not much to my liking @ 100. The 50 meters rings were putting a smile back to my face but that distance feels a bit boring
This year swapped the FX liners to .22 and changed the distances from 100 to 50-77 meters, into same rings, much happier with performance.
During the summer season my .22 Leshy2 was mostly employed around my walnut threes, 5-10 meters.

Healthservices said:

50 yards and less at home.

I'm only out there to better my shooting but I do get a small ego boost when the powder burners gawk at what I do especially when it is better than they can shoot themselves with their guns.

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PumaCarl said:

Shooting certainly doesn't have to mean hunting, or even paper targets. I just equate shooting sessions with just having fun. I shoot at mostly reactive targets and if I limited myself to "ethical" hunting ranges I would not be having fun at all. If you don't have the space to shoot far, that's one thing, but why not just have some fun every now and then and stretch things out? The experience you get helps with the closer shots too. It's not a waste of time or ammo, it's research. If you don't limit yourself to everybody else's abilities, or even sensibilities,then you just might find out that you can go further than you thought, or just plain old have more fun.

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I would be in these two guys camp. Shooting for fun and pushing the limits.
Average distance would be 300 - 500 yards is what blows my skirt up. I do get the short range pellets use though.
The term air gun is misleading to me. The manufactures have done a great job making "pellet guns".
Problem is a "Pellet gun" even if shooting light slugs, isn't equal to an "air gun" designed for high power and heavy slugs with a high BC capable of long range (300-600 yard) shooting. I have accurate "pellet guns" that can't shoot long range too. Seldom that I ever shoot them though.
So long range shooting isn't really even possible for most of our pellet guns.
Makes it easy to see why most average use is at close range, just like the guns were meant for shooting pellets. Just my .02 worth....

I am only a target shooter with the PCP ...so mostly between 100 -500yds.
I spend the majority at 200-250yds..

I’m a close in shooter, between 12a
and 25 yards! I can shoot much greater distance, however I’m a
Bobtail lazy and shoot from my covered porch. Fun enough for me. Charles

On my property I am shooting paper to practice and adjust and learn at 50 and 70 yards. Mostly shooting .22 slugs with my M3.

60% 30-80yds
25% 80-140yds
15% under 25yds

I have logs set out in my backyard at 20, 30, and 40yds for paper targets, and a small 4ft wide steel gallery with a thick plywood backer at 50yds with an assortment of spinners and small game flippers. Other than hunting, that is 100% of my airgunning these days. No desire to visit the range anymore.

I'd like to think all those target sets get equal time, but in reality the steels get more attention since I don't have to actually walk out there and set anything up or pull anything back afterwards. Sometimes it's nice to just plop down, cycle through a few mags, and then just walk back inside.

My year or so long foray into shooting slugs at 60-80yds (that's the max in my backyard) is over, thank the lord. Good riddance. What a PITA that was. But it sure was fun casually popping squirrels at 80yds from my deck in the evening. Man, those hollow point slugs really returned a loud "THWACK" even from that distance. Dropped em like a stone.

I have 24 hour target at 50 and 60 yards with artificial light.

With day light I normally make must of my shooting at 77 yards and 90 yards.

Sometimes a week I shoot at 190 yards.

That is target shooting.

When hunting I shoot at the distance the animals appear.

My range with an air pistol 7 yards (my garrage) to 18-20 yards (my backyard).
My range with an air rifle (PCP) 30 yards to 70-80 yards.

My range for slingshots (no kidding) anywhere from 7 yards to 30 yards, and yes I miss a lot
My range for traditional archery about 18 yards.
I have target panic and I am more accurate with a slingshot.

I have spinners every 10 yds out to 50yds most times unless my cattle decide to pull them out and carry them off. I usually grab my sticks, rangefinder and chair and stop at random distances sit down range and shoot. Most of my hunting for squirrels is from 15-50 and birds from 20-100yds. Mostly use 22 and 25

90% is @ 20 yards
10% @ 30 and 48 yards

Paper Fears for its life . not so much at the outer circles ,but the little black dot in the center knows it is at lifes end .