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Everyone here has good stuff to say. Bottom line is that you should shoot your broadheads, from a tree, with your hunting clothes on and remove all doubt of where and how you are hitting. and also, never reuse replaceable blades for shots at live deer. One shot, hit or miss, and new blades go in.

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mauser there is one more thing that I feel every bowhunter should know, that is thier effective range for a clean kill. The way I determine mine is whatever distance I can put 6 out of 6 arrows in a pie plate I subtract 10 yards from, this allows for the nerves when the big one is there.

I know there are some that will take a deer beyond 40 yards, but to me that is to far for any bow or hunter, all the deer has to do is take one step as you release, or turn as you release and you wind up best case with a clean miss, worse case a gut shot deer.

My personal range right now is 25 yards, I am hoping when I get my new bow it will stretch that out to at least 30 yards, maybe 35, I doubt if I will ever be willing to even think about taking a shot over 40 yards no matter how good a shot I am unless they make a bow that shoots twice as fast as the best of them shoot today. Do not get me wrong, if a deer did not move I am sure you could kill deer out to 60 yards, but we are talking about a living animal, not a target!

The Tazman aka Martin Price
Founder and President of
Virginia Disabled Outdoorsmen Club

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im not really worried im trying to get knowledgable before i get the bow in my hands so i can enjoy more without worrying...im like a preperation freak...weeks before a hunting trip my list is made and the stuff im not using is getting packed...the night before even a small game hunt i check my gear 5 times to make sure i got it all...i just like being ready...i will definently enjoy shooting and bowhunting i cant wait...im just preping my self so when i get the bow i can go out and not look like a moron and actually get the bow sighted and tuned and then practice my little heart out and then some...my friends miss so much because lack of practice and they really dont know much about bowhunting..sure they see deer but they cant hit them because they dont shoot enough or know much about bows and such...my one friend never fierd a broadhead and wondered why he gutshot a doe...i just want everthing to fall perfectly in place for me and when i get that shot on a nice buck i dont miss because i didnt practice...they dont practice mainly becasue of football...i rather bow hunt and after breaking my wrists the first day of football i am done...thanx alot guys!!

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If you get well-prepared and start taking deer, maybe you will be an example to your friends. You could make it a competition thing. As you practice with them, make a game out of it-that can't help but make them want to be better prepared. No one likes to lose.

The most important bloodtrail leads right to the foot of the cross

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Personally I think you are doing the right thing in preparing before you go out. But you got to give it to ol'David he is right the most important thing is to practice and keep it fun.

I like to use an old set of blades to practice with the last month before season. I use field points of the same weight as my broadheads up until then and then switch over to the old blades. When i am ready to hunt just screw on some new blades and go.

The other guys are right there is little difference as to shooting out of a tree vs the ground if you bend at the waist. But to be safe you should always practice from any position you plan to shoot from before it happens. Doesn't even hurt to practice sitting down now and then because I have been put in the situation where I was unable to stand up before a shot.

Good Luck

" Anyone can be a father, but it takes a real man to be a Dad"

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mauser,David is right. Your in trouble already. This sport will make you obsessive compulsive. The good thing is it's a good obsession and this site is like an AA meeting for archers. I know cause I had most of the bad ones. A lot of your questions will be answered by experience and practice. Untill you get into the technical side of archery things will be fun. Every now and then I have to put down and move away from the bow. Good luck with your new obcession.

One thing you will found different between rifle and bowhunting is shot placement. Very important. It's not so much the entry but the exit of the arrow. The sad part is that some new bowhunters will lose a couple of deer before they realize this. Accuracy and shot placement should be your # one priority. JERRY

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Mauser06,

If I can give you any advice it would to shoot, shoot, shoot and then shoot some more. There are probably around 8 million different bow setups out there and the only way to get used to what YOU have is to shoot. Every bow setup, regardless of what you have on it(rest, overdraw, string, broadheads, field points etc...) will shoot a little different. I notice guys on here and other sites asking how far is too far of a shot..... Well that all depends on your setup, how much you shoot(most important), what your shooting at etc... The only way your going to know what your bow will do and what shots you are most comfortable with....all depends on what YOU are confident in. If you practice a lot at 40....well then 40 and under is going to be a good distance for you and all the way down the line. I am fairly new to bow hunting, so it is very important to me to practice as much as I can. Not only will practice help you figure out what your bow can do, you must practice on keeping your anchor point the same, anykind of breathing technic(sp?) you need to have and strengthening your "So called bow hunting muscles". They need to get a workout too. Hope that this makes sense. Davidmill had it right....Get your bow, shoot it and then go from there. Good luck.

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comndr45 is exactly right. for the purposes of an example im going to blow these yardages way out of perspective to give you the idea of how this works. so please don't use (a squared + b squared = c squared) and say &quot;nodose you're whacked&quot; <img src=icon_smile_tongue.gif border=0 align=middle>

lets say you're in your treestand and you have a deer on the downward slop of a hill. lets say its standing next to a tree and the base of the tree is 60 yds from you. follow the base of the tree upward until you're looking directly across at the tree and range it. lets say the tree ranged at 30 yrds. then you would shoot the deer that is actually 60 yds from you for 30 yds.

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bow hunting is an addiction. but it is perfecly leagl. it is good for me but kills the wife. get ready to here a lot of winning and complaining from the other half. be it wife girlfriend etc. gun season is short bow season is long, get my drift.to make the above post a little clearer lets try this,

you are 10 yards up in a tree (30 ft.)
your target is 20yrds out.

10 squared=100
20 squared=400
100+400=500
square root of 500=22.36 yards
so a 20 yard shot from a stand that is 30 foot up is actually
a 22.36 yard shot hope this helps
most of all keep it simple and have fun

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