Hi Cargo, It' s ok for us to agree to dissagree. If we all liked chocolate there would be no vanilla. If we all shot Matthews, PSE would go out of business. As long as we have confidence and consistancy in our methods to make good clean shots it doesn' t matter if we get there by different roads.

To, as you say, " shoot a little low" leaves room for error on every shot. How low is a little low? Is the deer 10 yds out or 15? what if he is 25? do you still shoot low? With enough practice, consistancy will come using any method.

The only reason that we have more than one sight pin is because longer shots have to be raised up a little to be accurate. Gravity is the force pulling the arrow down. Gravity does not know or care if your treestand is 10 feet up or 30. Remember the experiment that was done with the cannonballs off the top of a high building? One was shot straight out and the other was dropped straight down. They hit the ground at the same time. Gravity starts pulling down on both objects at the same time and with equal force. What I' m saying here is from a high stand and a close shot, the deer is not far away but a rangefinder will think it is. The arrow will not have to travel far linearly and will have very little drop. If your shot was straight down there would be zero flight distance for the arrow to be falling so your shot would be exactly where the arrow is pointed. Even your 10 yd pin would shoot a little high on a straight down shot. (wow, that is a lot of b.s. huh?)

The best thing, especially for a beginning shooter, is to practice shooting from your stand. Put up a stand in your yard in the off season, the neighbors will think you are nuts but who cares. Put targets at measured distances, say 10,15, and 20 yds. Be able to hit all these targets consistantly. I do this in the fall just before the season starts with paper plates. Set a bunch of them up around my stand, not just in the shooting lanes because deer seem to forget the rules. You will also learn this way what 10 or 15 yds looks like and not rely on the rangefinder. If you have to use the rangefinder for every shot it will cost you a deer. Sometimes there just is not the time.

practice! don' t take the fun out of it, enjoy nature and take a kid hunting.