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Old 03-03-2003 | 11:39 AM
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HuntingNut13
 
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From: Martin TN USA
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I' ve read the article and was very impressed. It talked about people like Fred Bear taking shots at 50-60 yards with a bow to kill a mountain goat/sheep I believe. Everyone idolizes him. With the bow he was using there was no way he was getting as much kinetic energy as we are today. Heck most people would criticize you for trying to take an animal the size of a polar bear with the kind of kinetic energy Fred Bear had, but it was an adventure to us when he did. I think most people can' t handle a modern day hero. It has to be in the past for us to idolize it, and in the present we criticize it. I' ve been hearing of some Bowtech shooters with 74lbs of kinetic energy. We' ve got bows putting out near Rhino stopping energy(they probably could stop a rhino with the right shot placement) and the unsaid rule is bradside up to 30 yards. I' m not saying we have to go hog wild shooting 100 yards at deer facing us, but I don' t see it as such a big deal if someone wants to shoot a whitetail at say 45 yards if that person is good enough. With carbon arrows, mechanical heads, laser range finders, stabilizers, and arrow speeds up to 300 fps, I don' t think it' s as big of an issue as it once used to be.
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