Yup, irony...lmao. BURN!

Can I get banned for "thinking" something?

I understand completely Bob, andjust for clarification I'll quote what a wrote again at the beginning:


So in a round-about answer to your question: Are you saying it is unethical for anyone to take a shot at a running deer? My answer would have to be no.

I, of course, will take your word as a gentleman when you cite your abilities and given those, if you feel your skill is sufficient to make a shot then by your standards that is not an unethical shot. While it would be considered unethical in my book; your book is your own. I do not possess the ability to take a shot at a running animal with archery tackle, so for me to do so would be considered unethical, if you catch my drift.

Ethics only apply to members of a certain company, organization or club. Now, while we as hunters may include all of us in a band of hunters, or the hunting community, we generally list our code of ethics as either the Laws of the state/county/instalation/clubwhose lands we hunt upon, or by the rules of Pope and Young or Boone and Crockett (more frequently called Fair Chase).

Ethics is such a general term and it is so difficult to grasp and define that the whole point of "Ethical Shots" is almost moot.

I'm with ya. And I don't think your answer was round about at all.

Deer take steps at 20 yards just like they do at 60. Anything that can move possess the ability to time that move just so you are loosing that arrow at the time it is moving. Of course the deer will not have moved as much at 20 as it would at 60 by the time the arrow arrives. But along your lines of thinking Longbeard, just about ANY shot with a bow and arrow would be a bad one... unless of course the deer was tied up with a three foot rope, or otherwise rendered immobile.

To bad ol Bill Wadsworth isn't around to coment on this

Longbeard, you really put an arrow into a deers head? Why? Did you think you'd never see another deer again? Never get another shot? What were you thinking? Were you experimenting?

Im just not comfy at that range, no sir [:-]

In regards to deer jumping the string, I think the jump reflex is at it's worst when the deer is close. At 70 yards, the sound is far enough away to not cause the same flinch reflex. It is still possible, but not as likely.

Do a thread search,justdont get him started.