155 yd Bowkill
04-02-2007, 08:13 PM
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RE: 155 yd Bowkill
ORIGINAL: davidmil
Must have been Fred Bear or Mr. Pope or Young. Those guys used to fling an arrow if they saw a target. There wasn't an ethics posse or any PC people then.
Must have been Fred Bear or Mr. Pope or Young. Those guys used to fling an arrow if they saw a target. There wasn't an ethics posse or any PC people then.
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04-02-2007, 08:13 PM
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Nontypical Buck
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RE: 155 yd Bowkill
Man I thought for sure someone would jump on that. Guess not. For anyone interested I was just reading an article that was reprinted in a Field in Stream magazine in 1968 and it was written by Art Young years earlier. It was an article titled Mountain Sheep and the Bow, the story is pretty goodand in the intro he stated the farthest he had ever killed an animal with an arrow was 155 yds. It was some kind of antelope in Africa and he did say that he wanted to get closer but could not. Funny how perceptions change with time. The article/story wasn't about distances, it was about his sheep hunt and that was fun to read and there was some other good stuff in there likethis quote from Stewart Edward White:
"There is as much difference between a hunter and a killer as there is between a sportsman and a sport. The hunter gets his game by the exercise of his wits, his woodcraft, and his knowledge of natural history; the killer uses merely his skill with a weapon."
Youngsaid this kind of definition is why he liked the bow. It calls for something more than the killing of game at almost any reasonable rifle distance. With the bow you must get close.
Funny how things change. I though it was funny to read because after he stated the above reason for liking the bow (getting close), the next sentence told of the 155 yd bowshot. That is not very close, do you think they were not very good at judging long distances back thenand just guessed or exagerrated for the sake of thestories or were they truly killing animals the size of antelopes at 155 yds.?
"There is as much difference between a hunter and a killer as there is between a sportsman and a sport. The hunter gets his game by the exercise of his wits, his woodcraft, and his knowledge of natural history; the killer uses merely his skill with a weapon."
Youngsaid this kind of definition is why he liked the bow. It calls for something more than the killing of game at almost any reasonable rifle distance. With the bow you must get close.
Funny how things change. I though it was funny to read because after he stated the above reason for liking the bow (getting close), the next sentence told of the 155 yd bowshot. That is not very close, do you think they were not very good at judging long distances back thenand just guessed or exagerrated for the sake of thestories or were they truly killing animals the size of antelopes at 155 yds.?
