Under a 100 yards is the most comfortable to me. I shoot the 250 grain polymer tip for deer. My rifle is a traditions and it has killed two deer under fifty yards and the bullet went clean through. I shoot the 348 grain powerbelt for elk. I have killed one elk with the projectile at 40 yards. The bullet mushroomed perfectly and found it embeded in the opposite shoulder. For both projectiles I use 90 grains of pyrodex pellets the 30 grain variety.