My 2015 buck... 9/4

[billdo5]

Lol lets get this thread going!!! I only have an 80 yard pin... Would u like to know where I put it? Any takers lol

[notellumcreek]

 Awesome buck. Looks like its a potential cross  Were you east or west side bildo?

[floatinghat]

Lol lets get this thread going!!! I only have an 80 yard pin... Would u like to know where I put it? Any takers lol

This make it sound like you are just looking for attention, by pimping your own thread.

[billdo5]

Lol lets get this thread going!!! I only have an 80 yard pin... Would u like to know where I put it? Any takers lol

This make it sound like you are just looking for attention, by pimping your own thread.

U must be new.. That is the only reason why I get on this forum haha 

[Rainier10]

First off I want to say that is a really nice deer and a great shot.

I know Billdo likes the drama but here is what I think for the others that actually want to discuss ethics and effective range.

Everyone's ethics and effective range are different.  So you took a long shot, you hit what you were aiming at and made a clean kill.  Something can go wrong just as easily on a 25 yard shot.  We have had guys in our hunting party wound animals at 5 yards, it happens.  A new hunter with an effective range of 20 yards can still screw it up.

My guess is most on here would stretch their effective range if that buck was standing in front of them.  Maybe only 5 or 10 yards.  Whatever their effective range is or ethics say.  Maybe they are good out to 50 yards and the buck is at 56 they would still take the shot.

Anyways, ethics and effective range can be argued forever, everyone has a different opinion of each.

I am of the opinion that you shot a great deer and made an awesome shot, I wasn't in your shoes or blue jeans  so I don't know what I would have done.

[tgray]

80 yard pin right on his nose?
Nice buck and nice shooting

[Jonathan_S]

80 yard pin right on his nose?
Nice buck and nice shooting

Keep in mind his bow shoots 342 FPS

[billdo5]

80 yard pin right on his nose?
Nice buck and nice shooting

Keep in mind his bow shoots 342 FPS

Damn right more like foot under the nose

[billdo5]

U know last year I shot mine at 77yards right thru the heart and the buck only went 20 yards and I never got the reaction i am getting now...

[vandeman17]

U know last year I shot mine at 77yards right thru the heart and the buck only went 20 yards and I never got the reaction i am getting now...

I think the biggest thing is the facing on shot. 90 yards is a long shot in itself but there are guys who can make that shot and are confident. The margin for error is just so much smaller in the chest so I think that is what the grief is derived from. 

[buckandbullminingco]

Very nice buck, congrats. You posted the distance you chose to shoot on a public forum so responses are quid pro quo I figure.  You ranged that animal at 90 yards and decided to take a high odds chance at wounding him?  Ridiculous. You were very, very lucky, plain and simple to put an arrow in a softball size kill zone at that distance.

When u group a paper plate at 90 yards then maybe u could do it... U just need some practice I guess 
Or u just live in the city and can't shoot that far in ur back yard if u have one 

No, I have never lived in a city and do not now. Sure, I practice out to 60 yards for the possibility of an opportunistic second shot on my property in the country. I'm sure you are "very" aware of what can and oftentimes happens while an arrow is in flight at even 40 or less yards to a previously stationary big game animal.  Hitting a paper plate at 40 or even 90 yards does not guarantee success every time on a hunt.  After nearly 40 years of bow hunting, I know this. Big game critters seemingly decide to take a step, flinch, or whatever many times right at the second we touch off an arrow. Long range shooting is risky to say the least. Those who think otherwise more than likely, wound more than they care to admit. I'm not that hungry that I'm willing to take those chances. Just my old Hunter thoughts. Again, congrats on a very nice buck.

You won't be able to tell this kid anything, Phantom. He knows everything.  I call that a lucky shot. You can hit a paper plate at 90 yards. Great.  You can't reliably hit a potentially moving target at 90 yards. Who knows what that deer's  going to do in the time it takes that arrow to reach its target. If you're going to shoot that far you should just use a rifle.





Our camps last 5 elk have all been shot at 80 yards.  Clean pass through shots.   Killer shot and keep it up bud

[billdo5]

Amen brother.. Young guns are taking over... TRUMP 2016!!!

[_TONY_]

Amen brother.. Young guns are taking over... TRUMP 2016!!!

.....and may god have mercy on our souls.

[billdo5]

Amen brother.. Young guns are taking over... TRUMP 2016!!!

.....and may god have mercy on our souls.

Trump is our God now

[_TONY_]

TBH, I think your just a troll, Billdo.

I'm thinking you shot that buck at like 20yrds, and told everyone that you shot it at 90yds, just to stir up the hive.

I'm on to you......Billdo.

Carry on.