What is the longest distance you practice at?

25 yards

The longest distance at any pistol around here is 25 yards.I sometimes lke to shoot from there.I try to stick with 8.5-15 yards depending on the weapon.
 
If it's an SW 29-2 .44 Magnum 100 yards.
If it's a SW 41 over a 100 yards (yes, the 41 can knock pop cans over beyond 100 yards with ease and regularity once the sight elevation is pin pointed).
If it's a .357 or 9mm 50 yards or a bit beyond.
If it's a .380 or .32 or .38 25 yards or so.
 
With my .44 mag, 5.5" barrel and open sights I shoot it at the rifle range comfortably at 50 yards and can see the target well, I also shoot at 75 yards but it's a little harder for me to see well enough to get the same good groups that I get at 50 yards. Moving further out than 75 yards my groups spread out pretty quickly. So I do most of my shooting with my .44 mag at 50 yards and less.
 
Handgun out to 150 yards - I killed a mulie buck here three years ago with a head shot at a lased 145 yards with a Freedom Arms M555 revolver topped with a 2x Leupold, and an elk at about 160 with a S&W .500 mag topped with a 4x Leupold.

I've shot an unscoped 8 3/8" Interarms Virginian Dragoon .44 mag revolver enough at 400 yards to be able to hit a 36" square metal plate more often than not. I won a long range side match last year with this revolver by putting five shots on a 12" metal plate at 85 yards in 9.6 seconds, including reaction time to the start buzzer.

Rifle out to 500 yards, especially BP cartridge guns. Last week, I shot my best BP CTG groups ever from a .45-70 Sharps loaded with a cast 530 Postell bullet over a pre-compressed load of 65 grains Swiss 1 1/2 Fg. Bullets were hand selected & weighed, and cases were fire formed & indexed when chambered. The sight set on this particular rifle is a Lee Shaver long range deluxe Soule on the rear and a matching Shaver spirit level globe on the front. Three shots @ 500 yards into 7", center to center, then a second three shot group into 7 1/4" - that's less than 1.5 MOA... at 500 yards... with black powder... and a cast bullet... and iron sights. I don't know that I could duplicate this with any of the scoped bolt action rifles I currently own.
 
All my 22's but one, 9MM, 38 spcl/357's, 41 mag, 44 spcl/44mag, 45 acp at all distances from 8 yards to 100 yards fairly regularly. One 22 revolver and my BP 45 revolver I stay within 30 yards. Used to shoot 200 yards until I quit going to that range...to many new/young people there made me and some of the other old timers nervous. I could shoot 150 yards on my range but as my eyes got older and crustier it kind of lost some of the fun factor. Waiting for cataract removal before I go past 100 again.
 
I shoot all my handguns at 100 yards, just to see what's possible. Including my lil' P-3AT. With a little practice, it surprising what you can hit.
 
Ha, slightly off topic, but when I was a kid I used to do 400 yard shots with my .22 rifle. There was a small tin shed in the middle of a lake on our farm and I would shoot at about 30 degrees up and allow 25 yards for breeze. Bang.........................ting.
 
25 yards is my practical handgun maximum. My vision really doesn't allow me to shoot beyond that with open sights and, in fact, it's often a crapshoot at 25 yards. I'll sometimes put together a 2 1/2" group at that distance, feel great about my marksmanship, and then, follow up my great group with something that would neatly fit within the circumference of a manhole cover.

I'm amazed at the effect that distance has on my marksmanship. At 10 yards I can often put everything within a 1 1/2" circle. At 15 yards, maybe within a 4" circle. At 25 -- see above.

I've only fired one time at a distance of more than 25 yards. Just for the heck of it, last year, I set up a silhouette target at 50 yards, then blasted away at it with a revolver (Smith & Wesson Model 27 loaded with .357 rounds) and with a 1911. I was able to keep every round within the torso outline on the target but that's about it.
 
Assuming we are speaking of handguns here, generally I stick with 7 to 10 yards for the majority...20 yards max. Reason is, I feel that focusing too much on shooting beyond this range would be a bit unrealistic/unnecessary for my needs (which mainly centers around self defense).

Of course, I do occasionally like shooting [a handgun] 50+ yards or so, just to see what I can accomplish. But, to me, this is essentially the realm of competitive shooting (or possibly bragging rights) and thus, not all that practical when personal defense [along with accurate rapid fire] is the primary focus.
 
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Believe it or not 7 yards and closer for the most part. That's when I will need a pistol.

100 yards with a springfield 1911 just plinking and having fun. I manage to hit clays one or two times from a full 7 round magazine.

Hitting targets serves no purpose past 20 yards IMHO, not with me anyway.
 
For pistols, I most often practice at 7-10 yards, with a few strings out to 25 yards. When I shoot at my outdoor range, I occassionally shoot 30 yards, too. (The outdoor range has 3 firing lines for pistols at 10, 20, 30 yards. The indoor has a varible pulley at 0-25 yards.)

Toss in rifles at the outdoor range...
Most of the time at 100 yards. Sighting in rifles, use of the .22 and some carbines at 50 yards. Battle rifles get shot out to 200 yards when I feel like taking the walk down to hang targets.
 
I practice anything defensive up to 10 yds. I shoot up to 100 yds with a pistol for fun. I like hitting 2-liters out on the 100yd berm (110 yds) with my Walther P22. It takes about 3 shots to get on target. From there, I pepper the bottles. I shoot at golf balls at 50yds and, surprisingly, hit them in only a few shots with any of my pistols.

It's really not as hard as it seems. my brother does it too, and he has little experience shooting.
 
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