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

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05-16-2006 | 04:21 AM

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

"Im sure this up set the ethics police but thats how it is. Most spot and stalk, open country hunters all shoot to these ranges at game Even thought they don't have the balls to admit it. "

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05-16-2006 | 06:11 AM

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Rich Baker

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

Truth sometimes aint pretty is it. LOL

05-16-2006 | 08:28 AM

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

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Touchy subject here, most guys will say 20 to 30 yards. Because its a ethically sound statement. The truth is I have shot and killed elk out to 98 yards with a mathews feather max, a cougar faceing me at 50 yards several muley bucks out to 70 yards. Open country hunting is quite a bit different than small eastern hard woods. I practic to 100 yards . I have lost one animal since I have been bowhunting (25 years) a whitetail buck He was shot at 15 yards?? That said 80% of my kills are taken at or around 40 yards. Its my sweet spot I am deadly at 40 yards.

Now Last year I switched to a recurve to spice up the fun a bit. I wont shoot at a animal over 40 yards I can sink them into a paper plate back to 60 with it but I am not confident that the speed is where it needs to be.

Im sure this up set the ethics police but thats how it is. Most spot and stalk, open country hunters all shoot to these ranges at game Even thought they don't have the balls to admit it.

Damn Rich, that is some good shooting. I suppose, practice at any distance and you can get good. I know Dan Evans that invented the Trophy Taker drop away practices regularly at 100 yds sothat if the animal offers another shot he can send another arrow it's way. Look at Byron Ferguson, he shoots the flame out of a candle at 100yds with a longbow

05-16-2006 | 08:42 AM

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

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Would you guys really let an arrow fly on a deer at 60-70 yds???

Nope, not me. I bowhunt partly because I like the challenge of getting the game in close. Although I practice out that far, I'd only shoot a deer out to about 25 yards.

05-16-2006 | 09:53 AM

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

"Most spot and stalk, open country hunters all shoot to these ranges at game Even thought they don't have the balls to admit it. " - Rich Baker

Never taken a shot beyond 55 yards when spot and stalk hunting in open country. Too many variables, and you have to "have the balls" to admit that killing an elk at 98 yards with a bow is mostly luck. It could have easily moved long before the arrow got there. Sorry buddy, but "Truth sometimes aint pretty is it"? Even if you can center punch a target every time at 100 yards still not an advisable shot at a live moveable target like an elk with a bow and arrow.

05-16-2006 | 04:08 PM

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Rich Baker

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

huntingson, I couldn't agree more , Like I said most of the animals I have killed are at 40 yards. but I have done longer shots. Smart? no. Lucky ?Yes couldn't agree more.

05-16-2006 | 08:34 PM

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

Capabilities of making a shot and dealing with variables are 2 different critters.Say I can pound the bullseye at 70-80 yards all day long on an open range. Put those same distances in the field and even with 20-10 vision with my contacts in, I cannot see a brown stick the size of a pencil in front of an animal at 50-60 yards. I have taken 30-40 big game animals with the bow, most being in the Big Sky country and havevery fewto be over 20 yards.A couple werepushing closer to 30 yards in which I set as my absolute maximum unless I am hunting very open country late mulies, then I may shoot 35-40 depending on my comfort factor.

05-17-2006 | 06:37 AM

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

Those variables also work in a hunters favor and if they were right a shot at any distance would be a good one for me providing I could make it. As far as an animal moving, most stand stone still for great periods of time checking the enviroment. They never hear the shot with the wind and enviromental noises right. Shot 2 last year using those "variables", one with the added stink of some rotting roles of wheat straw (thank you very much mister farmer).

I also use good optics to see the variables that work for and against me.

And there's no substitute for good preseason scouting to determine the kinds of shots required to be sucsessful.

Variables? Sure but there not all negitive.

05-18-2006 | 03:39 AM

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

Under ideal conditions I can hit a buck in the kill zone every time at 70 yards. Would I shoot one that far? NO WAY! (unless i was trying to get a second arrow into a wounded deer) I have yet to to see 'ideal' conditions while I hunt. For one thing my heart rate is always higher in a stand......so it is about 40 yards max.