ORIGINAL: ranger56528

OK My 2 cents.
Even tho I have shot compound for only 23 yrs(I dont know much)I have seen over and over guys comming out to the range(some witch I have never seen before)with thier new compounds,recurve and start shooting and tinkering,being dumb and nosie,I will ask,new bow and the repley I useualy get is yep going hunting with it nxt week.then I will say good luck and walk away thinking to myself what a idiot(but who am I to judge).Then there are the guys at the range I know and talk too,and I hear alot of them talking how they got thier buck at 60-55-65 yards,Ill say something like.Wow thats a long shot,the reply I get is ,well Iam shooting a such and such bow at 90 pound draw with 340gr arrow 100gr BH.Then I wounder how many deer they have injurd and just never say anything.Ive always kept it simple.I can shoot 40yrd and hit kill zone(3-D)so Itake half that distance and thats your optumum distance for talking a deer(20yrds),hence the farthest I have ever taken a deer was 26/28 yrds,most of the deer in my short 23 yrs of archery have been under 20 yrds.
Recurve/longbow shooters I know its usualy the other way around.He came in at 25 yrds but didnt want to try the shot,wanted to stalk or get him with in 15yrds.......
TWO TOTALY DIFERANT WORLDS.

NOW to Crossbows...Dont know a darn thing about them and do not know anyone around here that uses one ether just what you guys tell me....and when I buy one I wont hunt with it for at least a year..or longer,depending on what the Doc says.
PS....
He didnt say anything today about my neck and arm,Just delt with my Sons hearing prblem.

Didnt mean to ramble.........ops