RE: "True Shooting Distance"
 

Look at it like this if a deer is 15 yards away from the base of the tree. If you take a string that is 15 yards long if you take it from the base of the tree to that deer it will be 15 yards, But if you incorporate the angle from up in the tree the string will not reach to that deer because climbling up into the tree creates more distance inbetween you and the deer

RE: "True Shooting Distance"
 

I know how to work a trig problem,( I do that in my line of work)THAT IS IRRELAVANT,gravity doesn't work right triangles,it pulls straight down and gravity is what is pulling the arrow to the ground.


You shoot forthe horizontall distance,not the slant distance.

The arrow will be pulled by gravity the distance it cover on the horizontall plane,PERIOD.

RE: "True Shooting Distance"
 

This is a matter of fact,NOT a matter of opinion.;)

RE: "True Shooting Distance"
 

I don't understand how this is possible. If the shot is the same from the base of the tree to up in the tree. Then why is Nikon and Bushnell coming out with these range finders that measure out the true shooting distance for up in a tree base on the angle.

RE: "True Shooting Distance"
 

Those range finders give you the true distance that accounts for arch of the arrowAND the horizontall distance.

You range the animal, from the SLANT rangeout of the stand andit compensates for the HORIZONTAL range from the base of the tree.

RE: "True Shooting Distance"
 

I don't know if this will help you but this is a print out from my ballistics program for my bow and I have worked a few trig problems to give some scenarios that go with the info provided.

RE: "True Shooting Distance"
 

So the range is different from up in the tree than from the base of the tree

RE: "True Shooting Distance"
 

I thought you were trying to explain that to me,of course it is but you shoot the distance from the base of the tree.

RE: "True Shooting Distance"
 

The string thing again seeing that I have no clue how to due trig. the deer is the fixed point. If the tree base and the tree stand are your other two points. The base of the tree is exactlly 15 yards, now move the string up to the angle that tree stand is at and the string will not reach the shooter. So isn't the shoot going to be a longer shoot from up in the tree than it would be from the base of the tree

RE: "True Shooting Distance"
 

I'm done,that has been answered.;) Key word,GRAVITY