Post by: Snapshot on March 29, 2012, 09:14:43 AM
Inside 100 yards??? Respectfully, that is in my opinion just plain wrong-thinking. I believe that for a bowhunter a bull is not 'called in' to shooting range unless he is inside of 25 or 30 yards. [NO, I don't have a garage full of antlers but the best bowhunters I know do have, and they GET CLOSE.]
To anyone who is young and still forming their values in hunting with a bow please read and understand this analogy: Bowhunting, like basketball, is a closer-is-better sport. And so speaking in basketball terms, a decent shooter strives for an open shot at free-throw range or closer, but if an open lay-up is possible he/she gets closer and takes the higher percentage shot. The excellent shooters, if they have the open shot, will take them from the three-point line but they only hit around a third or half of them on their best days. And throwing it up from half court or three-quarter court away is not a good shot opportunity.
In basketball no harm is done if the half-court prayer bricks off the back of the rim or whiffs the bottom of the net. Because steel and cordage doesn't bleed. In bowhunting it is morally wrong to loose and arrow unless you KNOW you can make the shot.
The challenge of bowhunting is not how far a person can shoot (they call that target archery), but rather how close to the prey animal a person can get. How close can the best bowhunters I know get? My brother once arrowed a six-by-six Idaho bull at six yards; but as many as a half dozen other mature bulls were all taken at well under twenty yards; and only a few were arrowed from as far as twenty-five yards. Uncle Jer's five or so Rosey bulls all came closer than fifteen yards before he slipped a razor-sharp broadhead through their boiler rooms.
Challenge yourselves to get close. You will never regret it.
Post by: PlateauNDN on March 29, 2012, 09:19:41 AM
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Post by: rebal69972 on March 29, 2012, 12:33:39 PM
Post by: Snapshot on March 29, 2012, 06:52:09 PM
the under a hundreds yards was just my qualification for what i counted as a "called in bull" an i was curious to know what other hunters success rates were once they got under that hundred yard barrier.that being said i can not agree more with this thread and i hope i did not give the false impression that i start winging arrows after they get to a hundred yards,closer is better :tup:
Understood. :tup: [Kids, pay attention!]