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Old 01-20-2002 | 07:05 PM
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Arthur P
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Default RE: is bowhuntin gettin to sophisticated?(sp)

Maybe someone can help me with this lazer rangefinder thing.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but most bowhunting shots on whitetails are taken within 30 yards. The average is much closer, within 20 yards. Now, given that bowhunters have demanded, and recieved, bows capable of shooting 300 fps and up; given that you could misjudge a deer that is inside 30 yards by at least 5 yards and still have flat enough trajectory to easily hit the lung area for a clean kill; What's the point in having a lazer rangefinder for the vast majority of us that have decent binocular vision and normal depth perception?

If we still shot slow old bows like we had 20 years ago, I could see it. We've gone so far with the speeds we shoot now, just to keep from having to make precise yardage estimates, and now you say we need a gizmo that gives us the yardage to within a gnat's @$$?

I didn't think too much about this rangefinder business until I found out what the knuckleheads in IBO's Mens Compound Release class did. Now I'm worried.
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