More speed = Less Accuracy???
12-02-2007 | 01:13 PM
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RE: More speed = Less Accuracy???
ORIGINAL: bowdoc1
I use my range finder on trees and thing around my stand to get some yardage. I never use it on game because first I make my judgment of yardage and than I put all my thought into my shot placement and aiming to not make a bad hit. I tell bowhunter at 3D shoots some of them they worry about yardage to much and forget the most important things about making a good shot. They are shooting to hit the target and I'm shooting to not miss the ten ring. Make you judgment of yardage and stay with it and consecrate on making good shot. I can't remember the last time I missed a deer and than it was from hitting a limb or something and it's a long time ago. I love my 280 fps bow and can shoot nocks off out to 30 yards with it. I'm a old instinctive shooter and never had to think about yardage to make a great shot. That has help me train me for bowhunting and 3D's shooting with sights. I heard this same things about speed bows not being accurate for years. Once a speed bow was 200 fps than 250 fps and now 300 fps. They were wrong then about speed and accuracy. More that likely wrong now. I'm shooting just as good with 300 fps as I did with 180 fps now it just gets there a lot faster with more energy and forgiving "Yes". Harder for the deer to jump the string, better penetration, to getting the yardage right and a inch can make a big difference between a good hit and a bad hit. Shoot to hit the middle of the spot not to just get close to the spot your aiming at.
I use my range finder on trees and thing around my stand to get some yardage. I never use it on game because first I make my judgment of yardage and than I put all my thought into my shot placement and aiming to not make a bad hit. I tell bowhunter at 3D shoots some of them they worry about yardage to much and forget the most important things about making a good shot. They are shooting to hit the target and I'm shooting to not miss the ten ring. Make you judgment of yardage and stay with it and consecrate on making good shot. I can't remember the last time I missed a deer and than it was from hitting a limb or something and it's a long time ago. I love my 280 fps bow and can shoot nocks off out to 30 yards with it. I'm a old instinctive shooter and never had to think about yardage to make a great shot. That has help me train me for bowhunting and 3D's shooting with sights. I heard this same things about speed bows not being accurate for years. Once a speed bow was 200 fps than 250 fps and now 300 fps. They were wrong then about speed and accuracy. More that likely wrong now. I'm shooting just as good with 300 fps as I did with 180 fps now it just gets there a lot faster with more energy and forgiving "Yes". Harder for the deer to jump the string, better penetration, to getting the yardage right and a inch can make a big difference between a good hit and a bad hit. Shoot to hit the middle of the spot not to just get close to the spot your aiming at.
Yes we were shooting compounds!
I think my setup at the time was 198 fps
I know!! Hard to believe
Dan
12-02-2007 | 01:26 PM
#32
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RE: More speed = Less Accuracy???
I remember once in the 70'S I was with Tom Jenning both and the compound shooter were shooting in the 190's fps and a guy walked up with a browning back packer recurve and shot 200 fps. Later I found out he was shooting 70 lbs with a 31 inch draw. but it made a lot of compound shooter look down at the ground and shake their heads. Old Tom thought what the &^% I'm try to sell compounds here with speed.
12-02-2007 | 01:28 PM
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RE: More speed = Less Accuracy???
i'd say that real fast bows are kind of like race cars...everything has to be tuned and working together properly and the archer has to know how to handle the bow....what i mean by that is ive seen guys with there setups from the late 90's (220-250fps) shoot some new bows for the first time and it scares the chit out of them because the thing is so fast, it actually makes them jump alittle...and the new bows have a completely different feel then bows that are just a few years old.
Question:
is 250fps out of your hunting setup considered slow????
Question:
is 250fps out of your hunting setup considered slow????
12-02-2007 | 01:33 PM
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RE: More speed = Less Accuracy???
ORIGINAL: Alpha Capo
i'd say that real fast bows are kind of like race cars...everything has to be tuned and working together properly and the archer has to know how to handle the bow....
Question:
is 250fps out of your hunting setup considered slow????
i'd say that real fast bows are kind of like race cars...everything has to be tuned and working together properly and the archer has to know how to handle the bow....
Question:
is 250fps out of your hunting setup considered slow????
Good point,speed is relative and heavy is relative as well.
12-02-2007 | 01:45 PM
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RE: More speed = Less Accuracy???
how hard do i have to push to cut you with a razorblade....those stone points were razor sharp and heavy...
i wonder what it takes to get 100fps...ill bet a kid shooting a 25-30# longbow can get it
i wonder what it takes to get 100fps...ill bet a kid shooting a 25-30# longbow can get it
12-02-2007 | 01:52 PM
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RE: More speed = Less Accuracy???
Heavy points, 40% F.O.C and 10 yard shoots I bet. Just think if they had are bows we have now. They may still have there country and would of killed all the buffalo's with out are help.
12-02-2007 | 02:02 PM
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RE: More speed = Less Accuracy???
When Indians killed, especially Buffalo it was pretty much a gang bang multi-shot affair, not like you see in the Movies or read in some books. I am sure they learned to be effecient with their equipment, but it was all about surviving whether it took 2 shots or 20 shots
Dan
Dan