longest shot?

[sakoshooter]

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.   

Is this a trol or are you serious?

[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.   

Is this a trol or are you serious?

Look at my post count....I'm no troll.  Be nice.     

[TheHunt]

I have not read all 5 pages but most East coast and MidWest hunters generally do not shoot over 40 yards.  West Coast born you get the folks who push the envelope.   Generally speaking.   

[RadSav]

Look at my post count....I'm no troll.  Be nice.   

Hard to be nice to a frontiersman sporting that avatar

[RadSav]

I have not read all 5 pages but most East coast and MidWest hunters generally do not shoot over 40 yards.  West Coast born you get the folks who push the envelope.   Generally speaking.   

Years ago I was in a deer hunting competition in West Virginia.  Guys were shooting on the range getting ready for the opener the next day.  When asked if I wanted them to make room I said, "No, that's ok.  I'll wait until you get back to 50 yards."  They all stopped and stared at me.  Then one guy say's, "I don't think you western pukes understand.  We don't shoot 50 yards." 

After five days there were a lot of deer missed.  I continued to get grief from the guys in that camp for shooting my buck on the run at 35 yards.  At the end of the competition there was only one deer killed in our camp.  As I was leaving I told the guy who called me a western puke, "Maybe you need to start practicing at 50 yards.  Maybe you won't miss all those easy shots you easterners are so famous for." 

[MLBowhunting]

 

[Smossy]

I have not read all 5 pages but most East coast and MidWest hunters generally do not shoot over 40 yards.  West Coast born you get the folks who push the envelope.   Generally speaking.   

Years ago I was in a deer hunting competition in West Virginia.  Guys were shooting on the range getting ready for the opener the next day.  When asked if I wanted them to make room I said, "No, that's ok.  I'll wait until you get back to 50 yards."  They all stopped and stared at me.  Then one guy say's, "I don't think you western pukes understand.  We don't shoot 50 yards." 

After five days there were a lot of deer missed.  I continued to get grief from the guys in that camp for shooting my buck on the run at 35 yards.  At the end of the competition there was only one deer killed in our camp.  As I was leaving I told the guy who called me a western puke, "Maybe you need to start practicing at 50 yards.  Maybe you won't miss all those easy shots you easterners are so famous for." 

Stooopid hahaha. Cant wait to get shooting again, Its been awhile I miss it.

[BOWHUNTER45]

You guys shooting at animals at 100 yrds are re-naming what bowhunting was not intended for ...the reason I bow hunt is to get close and personal with what I am trying to kill ...either you can not sneak on sheet or your one hell of a shot     

[Jellymon]

The sad thing is only the succesfull  100yd shots get mentioned on here. All the ones they wound, kill, and never recover get conveniently forgotten. I wont set a limit for anyone, but if youre going to shoot certain distances you better be honest with yourself and KNOW your skill is up to it.

[RadSav]

Cant wait to get shooting again, Its been awhile I miss it.

I find a good long break now and again to be just what the doctor prescribes.  Even the best archers from time to time start anticipating the shot and start struggling with poor habits.  A couple months off and then return to the basics with very deliberate practice is great.  I spend a week drawing and aiming, but no shooting.  Then I spend a week shooting and not aiming (usually with my eyes closed).  Then a week of shooting at eight or ten yards at a spot about 8" in diameter.  Then if all is going well I drop that spot down to about 3".  If it is not going well I start a month of basics all over again.  After a full month of basic progression goes well I return to shooting as usual.

Since I'm often messed in the head I find the annual reboot important to my success.  As long as I do not rush forward and skip the basics it greatly improves those long range shots.  If I don't force myself to do it annually I start to have problems.  While I never am completely void of target panic it does make it manageable.  I think mainly because all the other little bad habits that have crept in over the past season are gone and I can once again concentrate on the important simple things - Capitol "T", Aim, mantra (I am Randy Ulmer), back tension, release and follow through.

[rasbo]

40 yrds cow elk...

[Bullkllr]

Probly 40 yards- blacktail and elk.

I consider myself a decent shot up to 40-50 yards. I honestly can't comprehend loosing an arrow at an animal beyond that, but that's just me.

[TheHunt]

When I was shooting my 84 lb Hoyt.  I only had three pins.  0-50, 70, 80.  Anything past that I would stack pins.  Most of my elk were shot at 50 - 65 yards.  If I had an opportunity for a second arrow that long distance range.

[Gringo31]

I was watching a hunting show the other day where a guy shot a whitetail at like 50 yards.  I couldn't believe how much that deer moved before the arrow got there.  It makes me realize that shooting open sage mulies at longer distances is "safer" than those flinchy whitetails. 

[RadSav]

I was watching a hunting show the other day where a guy shot a whitetail at like 50 yards.  I couldn't believe how much that deer moved before the arrow got there.  It makes me realize that shooting open sage mulies at longer distances is "safer" than those flinchy whitetails. 

Without a doubt!