longest shot?

[RadSav]

just for fun I was wondering what everyones longest kill shot with a bow is? and on what type of game?

Ok, after some prodding from folks for me to share my longest kill shot I've decided to go ahead and follow the rules set forth by the OP and deal with the hate mail and ethics police.

Date: 1988 (if memory serves me correct)
Bow: PSE Jet-Flite w/York Alpha cams
Arrow: 25" 2115 X7 Black w/4" Bi-Delta Vanes
Broadhead: Savora Swept-Wing 3 blade 117 grains
Release: Scott Turd
Sight: Check-it
Rangefinder:  Rangematic 1000...I think
Place:  Herford, Oregon
Distance: 154 yards
Game: Sage Rat

Only took me about 18 shots to get it done!    Let the hate begin 

[D-Rock425]

Nice shooting

[MLBowhunting]

Nice work.  Looked like a pinhead at that distance.   No one should send hate mail because that is the shot of all shots.

[HUNTINCOUPLE]

Nice shot Rad!!! Definently out of my comfort zone by about 104 yds.... LOL...

[Greg Mullins]

Longest was 104 yards at a yoty and the shortest was about 5 yards at an elk.

[mountainman]

Longest was 104 yards at a yoty and the shortest was about 5 yards at an elk.

[RadSav]

Longest was 104 yards at a yoty and the shortest was about 5 yards at an elk.

I think my shortest was a five yard elk shot too!  Felt like the arrow never even made it out of the bow before striking the elk.  I'm actually quite surprised I killed him (spike).  He was running right at me trying to get away from my brother who had just missed him.  Couldn't piece together whether I shot while bailing or shot and then bailed.  I do know I felt him as he went by!  My bow was about three yards behind me when I came to my senses.  I still don't know if I threw it or if the elk knocked it out of my hand.  That was pretty darn exciting to say the least.  My brother laughed at me for about a half hour. "Kill or be killed!", he kept saying.   One of the coolest memories of my bowhunting career!

[jon.brown509]

95 Yards on a pronghorn in Wyoming with my compound I felt 100% awesome with the shot, knocked the sucker over and he only got up and ran 30-40 yards or so before he was out.
 guess i'm way unethical for that shot lol To think how bad I must be to get with in 100 yards of pronghorn in the open lol

[RadSav]

Nice shooting

I miss the days when a dozen arrow shafts were $38.00/dozen.  Not sure I'd risk one and a half dozen these days at almost $160.00 a dozen just to kill a sage rat.  It was fun though!

[kentrek]

70 yard starling....

[bowhunterforever]

60 yards on a muley

[boneaddict]

I'm always impressed with the animals people can count they killed over x amount of yards, but do they also keep track of the near misses, the ones they thought they missed and the ones with arrows sticking out of their arses or the ones they dropped that were standing behind the ones they were shooting at.   Is it about the hunt or the kill or the thrill of sending one downrange and to see if it hits something?

40 yards, this year, I should be ashamed of myself and the animal didn't even twitch. 

[jay.sharkbait]

I'm always impressed with the animals people can count they killed over x amount of yards, but do they also keep track of the near misses, the ones they thought they missed and the ones with arrows sticking out of their arses or the ones they dropped that were standing behind the ones they were shooting at.   Is it about the hunt or the kill or the thrill of sending one downrange and to see if it hits something?

40 yards, this year, I should be ashamed of myself and the animal didn't even twitch.

Do you keep track "of the near misses, the ones they thought they missed and the ones with arrows sticking out of their arses or the ones they dropped that were standing behind the ones they were shooting at."?

[RadSav]

but do they also keep track of the near misses

I know I had at least 17 near misses of the dang sage rat

or the ones they dropped that were standing behind the ones they were shooting at

I took a customer to Winthrop back in the 80's.  Got him 20 yards from a small buck.  He shot over it's back!  Guess in all the excitement 20 yards was too far for him    Anyway, we looked for his arrow for a few, but I was mad so we soon left to go back to the truck and head for another area.  On the drive to the next spot I got to playing the shot over and over in my head.  After awhile I turned the truck around.  "What are you doing?", asked the young archer.  "We're headed back to get your deer.", I replied.

From my vantage point I could not see the arrow in flight through my binoculars.  But, the more I played things back in my head the more I thought I had seen his arrow in one of the others behind it as they ran off.  Sure enough, 30 yards past where we had stopped looking for the arrow was a dead doe.  Heck of a shot right through both lungs    Good thing it was open to flatheads!  At times inexperience leads to mistakes regardless of distance.

I missed a cow at 40 yards this year.  Don't ask me how...I have no idea!  I'd probably hit the heart 49 out of the next 50 similar shots.  Guess experience isn't always mistake free either.  Though I did wait for the spike to move out of the way before I screwed the pooch.

[boneaddict]

I'm always impressed with the animals people can count they killed over x amount of yards, but do they also keep track of the near misses, the ones they thought they missed and the ones with arrows sticking out of their arses or the ones they dropped that were standing behind the ones they were shooting at.   Is it about the hunt or the kill or the thrill of sending one downrange and to see if it hits something?

40 yards, this year, I should be ashamed of myself and the animal didn't even twitch.

Do you keep track "of the near misses, the ones they thought they missed and the ones with arrows sticking out of their arses or the ones they dropped that were standing behind the ones they were shooting at."?

me miss?  What are you thinking?   
I've been pretty fortunate Jay, but it helps when you are standing on top of them.

Glad you recovered her Rad.   Yes, some folks get a little juiced even at 20, in fact maybe even more so.  That's the whole point of gettin' close.