Freerange, shooting off sticks for me is something I use when target shooting as I love to refine my abilities. I am not a LR competition guy so the bench is only used for zero purposes and confirming my 150 and 175 yard shot as if I was in a box blind. From there it is all prone, sitting, standing, and using my sticks or tripod I built. I don’t go to the range all year and shoot because I get enough of that in the Army as is. I have a different advantage to this topic then others so I almost should not have posted to this topic. I Graduated from Sniper School in 2004 and I am still Active Duty. In Sniper school you shoot off sticks, Tripod, and your buddy’s shoulder and back learning new shooting techniques and positions. That being said, the adrenaline from a deer in the crosshairs is no different then a human. So shooting sticks I will give you an honest 500 being my max at a plate (never done this with a Deer so take it as you want) but would prefer 400 and in just out of respect to an animal. The difference with me over some is I don’t pull the trigger just to pull it. If I don’t feel 100% in my shot, I don’t squeeze. Plate, Deer, Prairie Dog, neighbors cat it don’t matter. I am at the stage with shooting were I am refining myself not the learning phase. I enjoy teaching Marksmanship more then shooting now a days so that others can learn something and be better next time they go out.

Paralax-Im glad you posted. Thank you very much for your service to our Country. Your experience puts you in a different arena than most for sure but its very valuable to hear it as we, or I, can still apply it. I also shoot mostly all from field positions and I don't pull just to be pulling.

Curious what some of yal have in your deer stands to shoot off of. Many speak of it as if sitting in a stand is just as good as a bench rest with sand bags or a bipod.

Our blind rest consists of a 2x2 window sill and that's it, even shooting from the blind is nothing like a bench rest or bipod.

Here’s my blind/bench/bipod/bag setup... gets me way out past 200 yds

How big is that blind where you can fit that table in there?

In my current blind (4x6) I either use my pack or bog pod extended to the floor and am pretty stable. I need to build a new blind this summer and may incorporate a better rear support system.

To answer the OP's question, I would be comfortable out to 300 with little to no wind.