RE: Shooting from a treestand
 

You don't do either high or low. You sight you bow in, you practice from your approx. stand height. Don't compensate don't guess. Just when you think that deer will drop it won't. Put it in the center of the boiler room and you will be good.

RE: Shooting from a treestand
 

Until the deer decides to jump string.

A target (3D or otherwise) doesn't react to a shot the same way a live animal will, and believe me, the animal will react.

You can do everything you want to silence and speed up your bow, but there will come a time when that deer drops a bit and you either miss completely or hit high.

Compensate for that by aiming for where you want the arrow to exit.

RE: Shooting from a treestand
 

I cant believe that someone would aim diffently in anticapation Of string jump! Aim for the exit hole! Nuff said.

RE: Shooting from a treestand
 

I can't believe someone wouldn't compensate. If the deer drops in response to the sound of the bow (and it will no matter how quiet you think your bow is) the exit hole you imagined will drop too. Aim for the heart and when it drops you double lung it. If for some reason it doesn't drop (40MPH winds, helicopter hovering overhead, etc.) you hit the heart.

RE: Shooting from a treestand
 

If a deer drops, it drops, what if it doesn't drop? I compensated for the first time last year, the deer didn't move and my arrow went safely under his heart/chest. Had I aimed like I always do, at the top of the heart I'd been tagging my best buck to date.

I will never, ever compensate again, aim for the exit hole, if they drop, they drop.

Deer do not duck, they drop because they are preloading their legs to flee, it's a natural act of gravity, not ducking.


Agreed except, bend at the waist and pick a hair.

Not every animal, see example above, this cost me my best buck.

Exactly, if they drop, they drop, We can never assume an animal will do anything. I've had more not react than react and yes, I've missed a few because of drop but from that day forth from the one that didn't drop, I will never compensate, if they duck, they win, if they don't I win. I usually win.

RE: Shooting from a treestand
 

I'm not saying to aim below the animal.

I'm saying aim for the heart and expect a lung hit.

Aim for the heart and if the deer ducks, you'll get the lungs.

If it doesn't duck, you get the heart.

RE: Shooting from a treestand
 

Or if he really drops, it's spine or a flesh wound. Exactly WH aim for the top of the heart, if you go low, it's heart of miss, if you go high it's lungs, spine or miss as long as left/right is good....

I aimed below the animal because he was nervous as any I've ever seen, perfect arrow flight right under his chest. The buck never heard my bow or arrow..never again.

RE: Shooting from a treestand
 

It really all depends on the situation I guess. You just have to read the animal.

Bend at the wasit and pick a spot.

RE: Shooting from a treestand
 

Rob, I hope this doesn't come off the wrong way but it takes a slow motion video to be able to tell if a deer starts to drop before the arrow reaches it. Did you have video rolling on your miss? If not then it is just an assumption that the deer stayed motinless as your arrow passed underneath it. Were you aiming at the heart or completely underneath it?
Again, I mean no disrespect by this post. My personal expierience has convinced me that aiming at the heart gives me a higher success rate.

RE: Shooting from a treestand
 

I don't practice to have to compensate. I also have never had a deer jump my string. Knock on wood. I am not going to aim low in hopes the deer will jump my string.

Yes Rob maybe finding the "center of the boiler room"was to vague. Your comparison was more to the point.