judging yardage help
01-02-2002, 06:29 AM
#2
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Ohio
Posts: 134
RE: judging yardage help
Practice,practice,practice!!!!!!!!! That's the only way I have found. If you don't have a rangefinder,get one. Taking short walks and estimating the distance to something,then shooting them with the rangefinder works great. I do it a couple days a week all year.
01-02-2002, 07:22 AM
#3
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location:
Posts: 7,571
RE: judging yardage help
I use a small inexpensive range finder that measures up to 50 yards. I only paid about $30 for it and it works fine. I use it when I set up in a new spot and identify some land marks such as trees, rocks ect. I found it very helpful this past year when I hunted a gully area. I shot a deer that was standing at 28 yards from me, however, it sure looked like it was 35 yards because it was across the gully. When my friend helped me track it, he thought that the shot was around 40 yards. It was very deceptive. I'm glad that I trusted the range finder and not my own judgement, which I consider pretty good.
01-02-2002, 09:50 AM
#4
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location:
Posts: 361
RE: judging yardage help
This may not be the way for you to go but I have always had trouble judging yardage no matter how much I tried I just couldn't do it. I hunt from a tree stand always never from the ground and so I thought I would try a pendulum sight and now I will use nothing else just point and shot all I have to know is were 35 yrds is that is my max. distance on my pendulum. This may not be what you are looking for but if all else fails try one you might like it. When you think about it is a really helpfull tool, how many people do you here say I shoot over or under it and another thing to consider when people say this how many times they hit the deer really high of low and possibly lost it.
01-02-2002, 10:15 AM
#5
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Saylorsburg PA. USA
Posts: 252
RE: judging yardage help
Like OHarcher said Practice!!!!!!!!!! Also I found that going to as many 3-D shoots as I have over the years really helped on judgeing yardage for me. Althuogh nothing beats a laser rangefinder or so I'm told by my buddies! I'll have one myself in a few days!
01-02-2002, 02:56 PM
#6
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Helena MT USA
Posts: 363
RE: judging yardage help
My hunting budies and I have a game we play at the range. We all get one arrow and take turns making up shots on 3-D targets. The first hunter will step up without say what distance he believes it is and take the shot. The next hunter will take the same shot and so on. After everyone has shot everyone says what distance they believe the shot was. It is then checked with a range finder. Out of all three of us we now guess withing about three yards of each other and withing five of the range finder. The trick is to try and come up with deceptive shots.
