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Old 10-13-2003 | 07:09 AM
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Default RE: how far will you shoot

Same with me, Coolbrze0.... Yesterday I went out to a quiet wooded business developement with my old PSE Edge 1000 bow to try some LOOOOOOOONG distance shots at the white bag target with 5 bullseyes on it.

I took advice from other threads and adjusted my Tru-Glo 3 pin sights to now be 20-30-40 (I just moved the whole sight assembly so now it' s lengthened by 10 yards), and rechecked everything and tweaked everything with the allen wrenches.

See, I had a big 30' tape measure with me and measured it all the way out (10 yards) and marked it with a stick. From that point I went another 10 yards, marked it with a stick, etc..etc..etc... Until I had the yardage measurements resembling a football field.

20 yards is easy. 30 yards is harder, but do-able. When I stepped back to 40 yards, I was like, " Whoaaaaa..... this is way out there!" I was off a bit but hit 2 of the 5 bullseyes. I got a little nutty (translation: Stupid) [&:] afterwards and though, what if I try a really long shot where I can' t even use my pins and just " guesstimate" where I should line up. I paced out to 50 yards and tried taking a shot. Thank God I used my well used XX-75 arrow, because I sailed it right over the top of the target only to have it go to " destination unknown" . It disappeared! I looked and walked back and forth through the grass, and I think it slipped way down deep in the grass and disappeared. Oh well.

Anyway a long story short... my most comfortable shot is 30 yards. I don' t have the confidence to do a really good 40 yard shots yet.

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