I have taken 3 mule deer and 7 antelope with a bow. The farthest shot on any of them was 32 yards and that was from a ground blind at a water hole. That was the only one taken from a blind. The rest were decoyed or spot and stalk and all 20 yards and in. I don't subscribe to the shots are farther out west theory. There is greater potential for longer shots in the west, that's a fact of the geography. You can get close if you work at it, that's a fact of hunting.