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06-12-2008 | 06:12 PM

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va bowbender

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RE: what's your max range?

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burniegoeasily

I shoot at anything that moves, regardless of distance. Ill just pull up the bow and let an arrow fly and hope I hit the animal.........

Now how many of you believe that? With trad gear, 20 yards is my max. I’ve never attempted any shot on an animal any further than 20 yards with my trad bows.
[/align]Two or three years ago I was bowhunting a WMA in VA. I had already called it a day and was riding out in my truck when I saw a guy walking down the dirt road at dusk. He was carrying a recurve bow of all things!

Seeing another trad hunter I just had to stop and chat with him. After some small talk about bows and arrows he said to me “ yeah, I see plenty of deer on this road at this time of day”. I agreed with him saying that it was all but impossible to stalk close to them because either side of the road was thick briar. That’s when he told me “yeah, if I can see a deer I’ll fling an arrow at it, sometimes I hit them sometimes not. I’ve shot at deer 50, 75, 100 yards away”. He went on to tell some blood trailing stories, but I bid him farewell and left. [:'(]

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