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Old 09-20-2003 | 05:32 AM
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psuross
 
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Default Aim low from a treestand?

I hear people talk about about how you have to aim low from a treestand b/c of the angle? I think I understand the physics. If you are 3 yards (15ft) up in a tree stand and a buck is 20 yards away (from up in the stand) then the real distance is only 19.77 yards (Pythagorean Theorem). Unless I' m thinking about it incorrectly, gravity is only pulling on the arrow for 19.77 yards instead of 20 yards, therefore you have to aim low b/c it' s really not as far as you think. I understand all of that, but the amount of difference is so small, does it really matter? Take an extreme example, what if I were 6 yards (30ft) up in a tree (unlikely) and the buck was 20 yards away (from up in the stand), it really would only be 19.07 yards from the base of the tree. Doesn' t seem like enough to worry about. Am I missing something?
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