RE: Maximum shooting distance
 

There is certainly 2 camps when it comes to max range(with a few others sprinkled in between)....those who tryto shoot as far as they possibley can, and those who try to get as close as they can, and could care less about shooting far.

RE: Maximum shooting distance
 

Well we solved the distance problem.

RE: Maximum shooting distance
 

uh.................yes. This would be good. :eek: Just kidding.

But the dangest thing happens when I tell those ruttin' bucks where to come and stop.

I have had some 40-50 yd shots that I just could not take. Shakes are bad at 50 yds.

RE: Maximum shooting distance
 

Personally, my self imposed limit it 875 yards, and not a single INCH farther.....:D[&:]:eek:

RE: Maximum shooting distance
 

You need to determine your maximum effective HUNTING distance. So put on your hunting clothes, screw in the broadheads you plan on hunting with, climb up into the treestand you plan to hunt from, in the woods you plan to hunt in, and have somebody randomly place a 3d target at various UNKNOWN distances from 5 yards all the way up to 50 yards. See how you do, and then you tell us what your maximum effective hunting range is. ;)

RE: Maximum shooting distance
 

What if you are not Hunting in the Woods?;)

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Gottcha!!!! Mine's 895.

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Ive never had to take a shot at a deer more than 20 yards. Most of my deer have been shot from 10-20 yards. I practice out to 35.

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hunting 50 yards target 100

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50yrds is my max at a deer,ive shoot two buck in a field head down or looking the other way.

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i agree with these guys i would wait for a closer shot casue if u shoot at the deer and u wound it u may never see that deer again so it to have the deer around and wait to kill it or take a risk and shoot and possibly wound it and have a possibility of never seeing that deer again.

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I'd probably shoot 35 in a perfect sitation (on the ground level w/ deer and broadside). I have a funky shoulder so I don't get to practice very much.

These guys on tv are really stretching their distances the last few years. 50 and 55 yards! Lee Lakosky hit a antelope in that distance last year. Personally - I think they show us the good hits at that distance but not the bad ones. It gives people a false sense of what is a good shootingdistance. I was just watching one of the new drury videos and I swear the guy (Ben Reising or something like that???) was at about 55. Right after he fired the shot he started explaining himself. It was an absolute perfect hit though, gotta give him that.

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I shoot each day at my little Delta riverbottom buck target. I have 8 good arrows now so I shoot 8 arrows at a time at 40 to 50 yards. I do alot of shooting at ranges between pins just to keep things interesting.The last 4 rounds of 8 arrows (over 3 days) have given me 29 quick kills, 2 a little forward and 1 in the gut. The first 3 shots in the round have all been kill shots.

That being said all of these shots were not taken from a stand at a dead 3D target where I am sure of the distance and not under hunting conditions.

If I had a similar situation with a broadside, unaware, stationarydeer that somehow I new wasn't going to get any closer I might take a 40+yard shot. I would feel much more comfortable wating for the chip shot though and probably would hold off. Last year I passed on a 40 yard shot just because it didn't feel right.