ORIGINAL: bigcountry
ORIGINAL: Rob/PA Bowyer
I agree AP, very much so but bc said about norms and in most polls, the majority of deer are taken 20 yards and in.
I threw up my own experience of missing a buck at 16 yards, I'm here to tell you that I could have hit the damn thing with traditional gear so why would traditional gear have made that hunt "harder"?
Well, you think you could, not know. Proof is in the pudding. You should know as well as anyone on this page as an experienced bowhunter, until that deer is recovered, you don't know.
In the last 2 years, I thought I was confident several times out to 25 even30 yards. I learned I was not. I am confident out to 15-18 yards. Shooting a 3D deer is a total different beast than a deer in the wild.
A 16 yard shot in the woods with a bare bow ain't no chump shot.
Nor is it with a compound as I obviously pointed out.
