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.

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.

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.