longest shot?

[RadSav]

Archers Advantage won't give me numbers past 150 yards.  I wonder how many arrows I'm going to lose or break trying to get that figured out!    I might need to cheat and string some cones behind it    Sounds like fun though

[mountainman]

I amrunning an HHA slider with one of your 1/4" peeps. Gets me to 100 yrds with my anchor below ear, behind jaw. I set sight back to 20 yrds, have a 5/16" peep loose above first peep. Drop anchor below the chin, thumb behind neck, to be tripped by middle finger, index lined under jaw, and adjust the  peep up until sight hits at 110 yrds. Serve it in. Then run secondary hash marks out to 200 yrds! Seems to work fine, just have to learn a modified floating anchor..

[Jonathan_S]

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!

How about the injexion FMJs for only $116 / 6 arrows ?

Think I'll pass 

[bowhuntersd]

I practice both LONG and short yards. I practice long distance to make me a better shooter at short yards. Your technique is magnified at longer distances.
I shot a deer at 68yrds and took the top of his heart off. Luck or good practice? 

[Redbeard]

I practice at 60 and keep the longest I will go is 40. 

[Jonathan_S]

I practice at 60 and keep the longest I will go is 40.

does that feel like you're fighting for your limitations?  I will shoot thousands of arrows preparing for a season and develop a sense of my strengths and weaknesses.  I'll shoot uphill, downhill, sitting, kneeling, standing, in the rain, heat, wind, and pre-dawn/dusk. 

I will know when a shot feels iffy and when I am confident.  I will know in just a few seconds.  If there is an alerted buck at 42 yards, a strong crosswind and it's 20 mins to dark...no shot for me.   However, if there is an elk at 68 yards and it's 10:00 a.m. with bluebird skies and no wind....schwack!

[Redbeard]

I only hunt Illinois deer right now. Tree stands in the hard woods. I prefer slam dunk shots which I consider under fourty for myself.  I would rather let a deer walk than take that 60 yard shot. I really really hate trying to find a wounded deer laying up in the honeysuckle. Also, land plots are small and the last thing you want here is the deer to end up on land you can't access.

I know western state hunters shoot farther and that's their business and not mine.

Now this summer when I move out to WA  and the hunting terrain changes I might be willing to open up my self imposed limitations.

[Jonathan_S]

Makes sense, yeah if I were on a small plot of land with high deer numbers I'd wait for a better shot too.  Out here with millions of acres of public land and lower deer concentrations is a little different.

I forget you're in the midwest.  It is absolutely crazy when you're out in the sagebrush and you've stalked a deer for 250 yards and you think he's only like 60 away but in reality he's still 90 out   

[northwesthunter84]

Redbeard, I know what you mean.  I am originally from Illinois and 40 yards was pushing it in hunting situation (I shot a lot of indoor).  I've been hunting here in Washington and this will be year three for me now.  Nothing really changes as far as basic shooting form, just takes more and more practice to build up the confidence and perfect that form.  Also the shots don't have to be that long by any means.  My biggest factors were equipment and getting my body prepared for the hunting out here.  If you get off the road it can be down right grueling.  That being said I have never felt anything so rewarding in my hunting career. 

[huntingaddiction]

A coworker of mine, who likes to make stuff up, told me his dad shot an elk from 200 yards away, hit an artery in its leg and it dropped dead where it stood. He was using an old compound with only 50% let off, no sights and no release. This guy also thinks he saw bigfoot 

Why are you chuckling?  Bigffot is real!  Ask Drock 425!  He will tell you he tried to keep up with him during elk season!

[raydog]

I will shoot 120 yards or more........................................................................on a coyote.

[SCRUBS]

I practice at 60 and keep the longest I will go is 40.

Same here.

[SCRUBS]

200 yards

Nice shooting MM.

[jrebel]

I shoot my bow once a year before the season at 20 yards to make sure I am still sighted in....then I know I am accurate to 90 with my current set up.  I am trying to make my bow / string / accessories last exponentially longer by only shooting my bow a max of 3 time a year.  So far it has worked.   

[huntergreg]

129 yards on a mule deer and 103 on an elk.