RE: String Jumping Distances-"Boo Theory"
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I touched on this on the Max-Distance topic...but wanted to see what you guys and gals had to think about this.
After years of experience, watching 100's of deer a year, and talking back and forth with my serious hunting and shooting buddies around the country, most of us stand by the principal that a deer will jump the string under 30 yards most often. This can only be based upon personal observation and speculation, but here is the theory it is based upon.
Call it the "Boo" theory or whatever, but if you round the corner and someone yells "boo!" from a foot away-most people jump. If you round that same corner and someone from across a 20' room yells "boo!", well then you'd probably look at them like they were an idiot or something.
Apply that to deer. The deer is reacting to the sound of the bow exploding. At some point, there is a distance at which the deer will have little or no reaction to the sound of the bow. Of course, that point could obviously be 150 yards, might be 100 yards, but I think about 30-35 yards is a pretty safe range.
Again, this is based on a lot of personal observation and experience, but I think it holds some water. I'm not trying to advocate taking a longer shot, but I'd take a 35 yard shot at a feeding deer much sooner than I'd take a 15 yard shot at an alert deer that's ready to "head for the hills".
Jeff...U.P. of Michigan.
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