Huntingson & Metz....

You guys are right I should cool it. I just got a little riled up when I heard that it's ok to shoot a WT. deer at 50 yards. It's my opinion I guess, that this is to far to shoot for a deer. I've based this opinion on my 17 years of bow hunting. I didn't just come up with this from out of know where. I have learned from my own mistakes. My second largest buck came at 40yards, it was perfect conditons and I took the shot and spinded him because he started to dip to take off before the arrow was there. I have also witnessed in person a deer duck an arrow at 40 yards.On my deer I got extremely lucky. I learned from that experience thatlong distace shots are risky no matter how good you are.I am a bowhunter therefore over my years of hunting I have wounded deer and It makes me sick that I have mortaly or even non-mortaly wounded a deer and it suffers for any amount of time expecially days at a time and then is waisted. I just don't have the concious to deel with letting an animal lay in its bed sick for hours before it dies, I hate it. So I guess that is the basis for my opinion, is that from my experiences it is more likely that the deer can react to the sound of your bow and become wounded from at far distances.

Your right menz there are no facts about anything, it's just what i have seen and experienced that makes me think this way. I just hope you guys aren't the kind that doesn't really care if they stick one and don't find it, because that aint cool. And if you shoot deer at 50 yards I have a hard time believing you aren't.