RE: Experience VS shot selection
 

I've been hunting for 25+ years. Am I experienced? To my friends andmy sonsthat I have taught/am teachingto hunt I am. To the people I learned from, I'm still getting there. It's all relative. I try to learn something everytime I hit the woods, I'm never too old to learn something new. Am I gonna tell someone I am more experienced because I have more hours in the woods than they have, not a chance. I can stilllearn from them.

Patience and discipline in shot selection is not something I had as a newbee, but it isone of the first things I have taught to my sons...go figure. I guess it wasn't a high priority when I was green, because I can't remember my dad or uncles telling me to bepatient.

RE: Experience VS shot selection
 

I know a guy who only takes front on or quartering to shots,he claims the others are too easy. He's a championship caliber archer and has not lost a deer in years, is his choice of shot placement ethical?

RE: Experience VS shot selection
 

That isn't up to us to decide.

Shot selection, along with ethics, is a personal thing. No one person aside from yourself can tell you what is or is not ethical.

I'm comfortable taking shots at elk and mule deer out to 50 yards. I find this to be ethical as I regularly practice at ranges nearly twice that. You, however, may find it to be unethical.

It all boils down to what the individual thinks.

RE: Experience VS shot selection
 

I ws playing devils advocate, I agree it's an individual descision. I got my first deer with a frontal shot and I had luck on my side,it was a desperation shot after an arrow sailed over the deers back,he turned towards me and the next arrow was in his chest,80 per cent luck. I'd never do that shot again especially after screwing up easier shots later.

RE: Experience VS shot selection
 

This is the part that bothers me. Nothing is a given in bowhunting. The absolute best shot possible is what we all hope for, none of them are too easy.

RE: Experience VS shot selection
 

This statement also bothers me, it seems this person is just trying to brag on himself. I think we owe it to the game we hunt to take the absolute best and deadly shot we can.

RE: Experience VS shot selection
 

I,agree. I'll personally not take that shot again, however remember he hasn't lost a deer in years.

RE: Experience VS shot selection
 

Yep, David...you've got me pegged...:)

RE: Experience VS shot selection
 

That right there is expirence!

RE: Experience VS shot selection
 

Hell no!!!!!!!