RE: Are some of you guys really that good at 50, 60 70 yds???
 

... other than who makes the best bows on the market! ;)[8D]

RE: Are some of you guys really that good at 50, 60 70 yds???
 

IS there anything else????? :D Just pokin some fun atcha buddy....thanks for being a good sport.

RE: Are some of you guys really that good at 50, 60 70 yds???
 

Never said I'd shoot a deer at 80 yards, but when I shot tournaments you had to shoot at 80 yards and everything in to 11. Then when you shot a hunter round you shot at a black face. I couldn't do it now because I haven't practiced at those ranges in 25 years. When I did I had an 80 yard range set up in my yard and shot it for hours 5 days a week. Yes, people can be that good. I used to shootBowhunterLimitedclass which was fingers, no more than 5 pins and no sight extensions or stabilizers over 12 inches. Due to the fact I had to score perfect on the close in shots to stay in the game, my pins were set up for 10-50 I believe. Maybe i had them odd like 15-55 but I don't think so. Even at that you had to hold off on close stuff. For the 80 yard shots you gapped it. Put your 50 yard pin on the 80 yard bull, see where your 20 yard pin rested and hope there was a leaf or something there. Raise your 50 yard pin to the leaf and let 'er go. To stay competitive in the bowhunter limited class you had to cut a scoring ring every shot and hopefully have a couple bulls out of the 4. Hopefully you stayed only one ring out with the other two. The field round was white face with visible scoring rings at even yardages. The hunter rounds were black faces at odd yardages, like 78 instead of 80. Two yards at 80 yards means a lot of adjustment. This was in the 70s with old slow bows. It was a blast. I do practice to 50 and will shoot a deer if I have time to range him at 50. In big sky country I might adjust that to longer.

Oh, the big guns, the unlimited shooters with all the long stabilizers and graduated range scales on their scopes. They pretty much had to hit the bullseye on everything to stay competitive. If they dropped an arrow on anything under 60 yards they were toast.

RE: Are some of you guys really that good at 50, 60 70 yds???
 

If there is virtually no wind in an open area, big buck with his head down broad side 50 yds, I shoot. There is alot of flat open country here in Kansas and a long shot presents itself at times. If I am in the hardwoods no way, I have never shot over 25 yds in the timber.

RE: Are some of you guys really that good at 50, 60 70 yds???
 

Oh, and when I was shooting Jessie Morehead was a young whippersnapper shooting a bare bow. No sights, no string walking... just draw and shoot. I used to love watching him get in a shooting match with some freestyler for fun at odd ranges or whatever. He was deadly. Even in the tournaments his score was usually only beat by a handful of freestylers. I remember the last year I shot in the South Eastern NFAA tournament, he won of course and beat something like all but 3 or 4 of the big dogs. The boy was something else.

RE: Are some of you guys really that good at 50, 60 70 yds???
 

I have my last pin set at 65 yards and practice to that distance, however I don't believe I would shoot at a deer or hog at that distance. Then again, who knows? :D

RE: Are some of you guys really that good at 50, 60 70 yds???
 

Read Howard Hills "Hunting the hard way" and another called "The whitchery of archery" recently. While reading Hills book I started to laugh and and said to the wife "This Hiil guy would be mince meat with the ethics police on some forums today." "They'd drive him out in one day." His longest was 185yrds on an elk I believe. Uphill. The third arrow he launched had him dialed in. The guy who wrote the other book was the same. lol

I'll take any shot I think I can make. Got a lot of farm fields around here, long shots are possible.

RE: Are some of you guys really that good at 50, 60 70 yds???
 

Nope, I never would shoot that far at an animal but that is because of my skill level and the environment that I hunt in. I am sure there are probably some skilled individuals who could regularly pull off shots like that under the right circumstances.

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NODOG: Right you are. The ehtics police would crucify Howard and Fred Bear with his 100 yard shots he'd shoot at the drop of a hat. Difference in the status given the critters. They simply saw them as meat to be taken if you could kill them. If they didn't, well, ... they'd try harder the next time. No big ethical problem to them. Whereas, today people put the critters on a pedestal much like a deity. I suspect I'm some where in between. Fred and Howard didn't have the politically correct crap we have today nor the people who go to extremes to say their touchy touchy feel good caring good little boys and girls. [:'(][:'(][:'(][:'(] Yup, Howard and Fredwould be run out of this board in about 2 days, unfortunately, much the same as has happened to some very technically sound people that have stopped by in the past. Me, I just love to aggrevate them so I won't go away.[8D]

RE: Are some of you guys really that good at 50, 60 70 yds???
 

Everyone has made some very valid points. I do most of my practicing at 50 and 60 yards to do exactly what others have said. I have loosed arrows at game at that distance in my "younger days" and learned a few things: 1. you can't predict what an animal will do in the time it takes your arrow to get there, even at 50 yards.Even when you think they are standing dead still, they can move or shift their weight and screw up everything2. if they are at all nervous or aware something is wrong don't even think about it. They will be a memory before your arrow gets there at best and at worst you'll be trailing a wounded animal 3. They can watch the arrow coming in from that distance and will just duck right under it. This is amazing to watch actually, but frustrating nonetheless. All of these reasons have taught me that 45 (if the situation is right)and in is finefor me but beyond that is too much of a risk of just wounding them or never recovering them. Maybe when bows shoot 500fps we can revisit this :)