How many actually pick a spot?
02-01-2008 | 12:50 PM
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Dominant Buck
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RE: How many actually pick a spot?
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Burnie you mention shooting at the ten ring on a deer targetbut of all of the 3-d targets that I've ever shot I've never been able to see the ring but I know the general area that it's in. I've been bowhunting for about 30 years and have killed 40-50deer and a black bear using the method that I described. Now I have hit 3 deer that I was unable to recover. Iagree thatjust flinging a arrow toward a deer is a mistake, but I disagree that picking atuft of hair or a crease is the only way to do it.
Burnie you mention shooting at the ten ring on a deer targetbut of all of the 3-d targets that I've ever shot I've never been able to see the ring but I know the general area that it's in. I've been bowhunting for about 30 years and have killed 40-50deer and a black bear using the method that I described. Now I have hit 3 deer that I was unable to recover. Iagree thatjust flinging a arrow toward a deer is a mistake, but I disagree that picking atuft of hair or a crease is the only way to do it.
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I don't pick a spot, I go through a process in my head though.
From the bottom of the deer, following the leg up from where it meets the body;
"Three inches up, two inches back, hold, hold, release."
From the bottom of the deer, following the leg up from where it meets the body;
"Three inches up, two inches back, hold, hold, release."
02-01-2008 | 01:02 PM
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Dominant Buck
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RE: How many actually pick a spot?
Semantics if you asked me....
Unless that animal is standing still for a long time...your "spot's" gonna have to change. That good spot when he was 4 steps back there might not be the right spot when he is wher ehe is right now.
I agree that knowing the path your arrow is going to take through that animal is VITAL information. What better way to imagine that than having your pin on the animal and adjusting. That's the ultimate in the angle. It's a straight line from your pin through that animal (taking into sonsideration the angles).
The "spot" is constantly changing....unless that animal's standing still.
Wherever my pin is at the given time is the spot. I can't determine said spot until I get ready to pull the trigger.
Unless that animal is standing still for a long time...your "spot's" gonna have to change. That good spot when he was 4 steps back there might not be the right spot when he is wher ehe is right now.
I agree that knowing the path your arrow is going to take through that animal is VITAL information. What better way to imagine that than having your pin on the animal and adjusting. That's the ultimate in the angle. It's a straight line from your pin through that animal (taking into sonsideration the angles).
The "spot" is constantly changing....unless that animal's standing still.
Wherever my pin is at the given time is the spot. I can't determine said spot until I get ready to pull the trigger.
02-01-2008 | 01:10 PM
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Dominant Buck
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RE: How many actually pick a spot?
I hear ya, Dan.....but imagine shooting at a brown surface with no distinguishing marks. LOTS of times that's what we're doing. I see nothing wrong with trusting a hunter when he tells me he's taken into account the angle of the arrow.......and his pin is placed on that brown surface with that in mind.
ESPECIALLY since it's a known fact that the angle will CONSTANTLY change until the moment of truth.
It's one of those "pat" answers that I just don't like. Another "constant" that is everything but.
ESPECIALLY since it's a known fact that the angle will CONSTANTLY change until the moment of truth.
It's one of those "pat" answers that I just don't like. Another "constant" that is everything but.
02-01-2008 | 01:15 PM
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RE: How many actually pick a spot?
ORIGINAL: burniegoeasily
Nothing like a pissing contest about nothing.
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Dan
It's hard to believe how many pages some threads go
Dan
If a Bowhunter isnot picking a spot to shoot at, real or imagined I can't imagine what heis shooting at
Dan
02-01-2008 | 01:16 PM
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RE: How many actually pick a spot?
The "spot" is constantly changing....unless that animal's standing still.
Wherever my pin is at the given time is the spot. I can't determine said spot until I get ready to pull the trigger.
Wherever my pin is at the given time is the spot. I can't determine said spot until I get ready to pull the trigger.
02-01-2008 | 01:20 PM
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RE: How many actually pick a spot?
Question:
If a man pointed you and your bow at a solid white wall and asked you to shoot a hole in the center of it......what woud you do?
MY answer is.....I'd float my pin to the center of that wall and pull the trigger.
Have I picked a spot? If so..............Semantics. My spot's behind my pin.
If a man pointed you and your bow at a solid white wall and asked you to shoot a hole in the center of it......what woud you do?
MY answer is.....I'd float my pin to the center of that wall and pull the trigger.
Have I picked a spot? If so..............Semantics. My spot's behind my pin.