longest shot?

[diggie-d]

just for fun I was wondering what everyones longest kill shot with a bow is? and on what type of game? I ask because my friend practices 100 yd shots and I tell him in the field that's not realistic. btw mine is 44 yds on a 4x3 blacktail

[Broken Arrow]

Hey Diggie-d...better go pop some corn and enjoy the show....this question ALWAYS gets into an all out war of ethics vs EVERY hunter group. I don't share my longest...but I'm most proud of my shortest...7 yards.

[D-Rock425]

Ive shot a deer at 74 yards.  A few shots at 63 yards.  I had a follow up shot on the 74 yard shot that was probably not needed if I gave the deer a little more time. 

[h20hunter]

43 yards.....the deer was killed but required a follow up. My shortest is also one of my best....okay my best....about 12 or 15 feet.

[rtspring]

Well past a 100

[D-Rock425]

Well past a 100

the new age of bow hunters.

[jrebel]

Two longest...
1:  80 mule deer buck
2:  76 on a mule deer doe

Both dead.....all conditions were right and I practice well beyond those ranges.  The majority of my deer over my 26 year archery career have been under 40.  Part of taking long shots if having the discipline to know when it is appropriate and when it is not, assuming you practice at those ranges. 

Flame on....

[Hornseeker]

Anyone who shoots over 47 yards is not a true sportsman or bowhunter... it is unethical and would make Fred Bear roll over in his grave. Howard Hill too.... Geesh....

[jrebel]

Anyone who shoots over 47 yards is not a true sportsman or bowhunter... it is unethical and would make Fred Bear roll over in his grave. Howard Hill too.... Geesh....

 

[RadSav]

Anyone who shoots over 47 yards is not a true sportsman or bowhunter... it is unethical and would make Fred Bear roll over in his grave. Howard Hill too.... Geesh....

Both Fred Bear and Howard Hill were known to take long shots at animals.  And their equipment was nowhere near as good as the equipment of today.  Ben Pearson made a movie of shooting a javalina at over 100 yards.  Fred Bear commented it was one of the most impressive displays of skill he'd ever seen.  Not sure that's the same as rolling over in your grave

[Hornseeker]

They were true sportsman and bowhunters... they lived to close the gap and use the bow as it was intended... to kill game at close range... to pit stalking skill against animal... not to willy nilly throw arrows out and hope to put one on that critter somewhere like these guys nowadays that shoot 40, 50, 60 yards and more....        

[Song Dog]

35 yards.  Most have been between 10 feet and 30 yards.

[h20hunter]

They were true sportsman and bowhunters... they lived to close the gap and use the bow as it was intended... to kill game at close range... to pit stalking skill against animal... not to willy nilly throw arrows out and hope to put one on that critter somewhere like these guys nowadays that shoot 40, 50, 60 yards and more....        

If we weren't supposed to fling arrows willy nilly why would they give us quivers that hold so many?

  Please keep in mind I'm having a little fun.....

[Hornseeker]

Song Dog has got it figured out....   

[724wd]

60.5 yards (ranged at 60).  muley doe.  perfect broadside, stationary but alert.  i don't shoot much beyond 60 because my heavy arrows fall off quick (even practicing), but i put the 60 pin on her mid chest just behind the shoulder and the arrow zipped through the top of her heart.  she made it about 50 yards at a dead run and tipped over.  without the rangefinder and a perfect broadside shot, i wouldn't have taken it, but it worked!