longest shot?

[Jonathan_S]

My goal is under 40 yards, I killed my buck last year (first archery kill) at 42.

If there is a broadside, feeding elk at 60 yards and I can't close the gap... 

[jrebel]

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....        

I guess guys that shoot rifles at ranges over 47 yards are not "true sportsmen" either....by your definition.    

I love threads like this.   

[724wd]

hornseeker, i agree with getting closer, but you can't say back in the good ol' days bowhunters didn't take long shots.  my dad flopped a muley buck at (his estimate) 75 yards with his Bear Kodiak recurve in the '70's.

shoot, over 25 yards with a recurve in my hands, ANY animal is safe!     but my compound?  inside 60 is doable (with the right circumstances). 

[RadSav]

They were true sportsman and bowhunters...

In '85 I was lucky enough to have a long sit down with Fred Bear at the SHOT show.  One of the more funny stories he told was of his longest bow kill.  I can't remember what country he was in, but he was hunting tiger.  He said when he saw the cat it was too far away and he figured his only chance to kill the cat was to shoot an arrow over it's back into some rocks and maybe it would come his way for a closer shot.  "I missed the rocks and killed the cat instead".  When I asked how far the shot was he said, "Far enough a guy couldn't hit a hillside full of rocks."

I was only able to sit down and talk with him three times before he passed away.  But, those three days are at the top of my three best days ever!  He was such an entertaining man.

[BULLBLASTER]

About all I can say is that I have never used my bottom pin when shooting at an animal. I agree this thread will most likely beck a grease fire before too long.

[mountainman]

Mountain goat at 200 yards! Lol!

[Jonathan_S]

About all I can say is that I have never used my bottom pin when shooting at an animal. I agree this thread will most likely beck a grease fire before too long.

  at least grease burns good and hot 

[Gringo31]

Let me fast forward to the end....

Anyone who shoots a bow more than 40 yards is criminal and wounds game and not a true sportsman.

Anyone who shoots a muzzleloader over 100 yards is the same

As well as anyone who would dare to shoot a rifle over 300 yards.


IF you do, you are a bad hunter because good hunters can all get within range to see the eyelashes of their game.

BTW, it doesn't matter if conditions are right or how much you practice, hunting in the field is too variable, so those ranges stated above are law.

P.S.  If you do shoot farther that that, you better be ashamed of yourself.

[Hornseeker]

What a TREAT Rad... wow! I also have to say, that is one of the funniest and coolest stories Ive ever heard!! LMAO...

My friends... Im just jerkin some chains here... it was gonna happen by someone serious eventually... so I just figured I'd get it going right away...

I dont think i could get myself to let loose over 65 yards with my compound... if I was confident things were just right... but I will not hold anything against any of you, shooting ANY distance... thats your decision and you live with the outcome... Ethics are personal...

Yep... Fred and Howard and the boys used to take some hellaciously long and crazy shots! hehehe

[Hornseeker]

A good friend helped a handicapped kid get into bowhunting many years ago... Rigged up a deal that attached the bow to his left "stump"... he had no hand... the kid shot it a bit then old Bill took him antelope hunting in Wyoming... This was a long time ago, maybe early 70's.... anyhow... they spotted some lope and Bill set the kid off on a stalk... the kid got out there a ways and Bill saw him draw the bow and point it heavenward... he thought, "what in the heck is this kid doing? that herd is 200 yards or more out... 250" and thump... off goes the arrow, arcing like a rainbow... and it came down, almost straight down, between the shoulder blades of one of the small bucks in the herd!!! He could stop from rolling on the ground laughing!!!

[Broken Arrow]

well as long as were keeping things on the lite side


I don't always shoot over 47 yards,

but when i do I use this

[Hornseeker]

BA... seriously... how accurrate is that thing?
10 yards any sort of consistency? just curious

[Broken Arrow]

That's not me in the pic. I have no idea...just trying to find something funny on the net for long distance shooting!

[Jonathan_S]

That's not me in the pic. I have no idea...just trying to find something funny on the net for long distance shooting!

That thing is awesome.  I want one, get me within 2 yards and that deer is DRT.

[diggie-d]

didn't mean to start a fire, just wanted my buddy to see my point that 100 yd shot is ridiculous! my favorite shot was 12 yds on a nice rosie, that's why I bow hunt. to be close. im very good out to 60 yds but have passed on every shot at that distance by telling myself I can get closer even when that turned out to not be the case. eitherway I started this by saying just for fun, and that was my intentions for guys to share their shots not an ethics war so I apologize. oh and the sling shot pic- love it thanks for keeping it lite