so close but yet so far away
10-01-2009, 08:37 PM
#11
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: central Illinois
Posts: 1,872
First off Im not trying to start anything with you.
If you are going to post about it be prepared to take some slack.
If you are consistant and comfortable with a 68 yard shot more pwoer to you I guess. Still It is something I personally would never attempt.
Part of the problem I see is that you were just sighting in your bow and stated you were not proficiant at that distance---a "little low at 50 and 60" you say. Thus you had to make a guesstamation on hold over for where you was hitting at 60 plus another 8 yards.
If you are going to post about it be prepared to take some slack.
If you are consistant and comfortable with a 68 yard shot more pwoer to you I guess. Still It is something I personally would never attempt.
Part of the problem I see is that you were just sighting in your bow and stated you were not proficiant at that distance---a "little low at 50 and 60" you say. Thus you had to make a guesstamation on hold over for where you was hitting at 60 plus another 8 yards.
10-02-2009, 05:38 AM
#16
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location:
Posts: 2,120
Tim, take this for what it is a learning experiance. I would never take that shot and I've been shooting that bow for 4 years. A live animal can do many differant things at 70 yards before the arrow gets there. Practice paitence and you will have better luck.
10-02-2009, 06:09 AM
#18
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Somewhere in Michigan
Posts: 5,702
Tim - I am an avid bowhunter and have been for 16 years now and 30ish yards is my max for whitetailed deer...IMHO they are too jumpy and always moving...heck when you practice at 50 yards if you breathe incorrectly and release your impact can be a foot off and thats without adrenaline in your system and on a stationary target.... do as you will but I think 60 + is a little extreme...
10-02-2009, 06:14 AM
#19
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Southern Illinois
Posts: 1,559
Tim is right, if we don't discuss our hunts with more expierenced hunters, then how does the unexpierenced hunter learn.
I know guys out west who will take a 60-70 yard shot in a heart beat, but they have been shooting that distance all year prior to the start of the season. Learn what your comfort zone is and stay within that zone. Conditions may cause that zone to vary. For example, I shoot my hunting setup at 40 yards in my back yard all year, but would not take a 40 yard shot at a deer unless the conditions were perfect. Normally for me, I stay 30 yards and in.
Hunt hard and learn from your mistakes, it will eventually payoff for you.
I know guys out west who will take a 60-70 yard shot in a heart beat, but they have been shooting that distance all year prior to the start of the season. Learn what your comfort zone is and stay within that zone. Conditions may cause that zone to vary. For example, I shoot my hunting setup at 40 yards in my back yard all year, but would not take a 40 yard shot at a deer unless the conditions were perfect. Normally for me, I stay 30 yards and in.
Hunt hard and learn from your mistakes, it will eventually payoff for you.
10-02-2009, 07:42 AM
#20
Giant Nontypical
Thread Starter
Join Date: Sep 2005
Posts: 6,867
You guys are properly right. I thought it might be a bad idea before i did it. I expected to get slammed. How would i know weather i was right or not if i did not ask. As for the shed. That was a sighting mistake i was moveing the pins wrong. Still can not figure how my arrow end up right behind the hay though seems it would have had to bend around at a angle. But who knows
She did not move untill the arrow landed. My guess is it hit near her and scared her off.
68 wont be a issue in my stand it is on 5 trails and a bean field all under 40
She did not move untill the arrow landed. My guess is it hit near her and scared her off.
68 wont be a issue in my stand it is on 5 trails and a bean field all under 40