I am a bow hunter and part of the fun of it, for me, is trying to get as close as possible to the intended target. After all the bow is a close range tool. It' s not as rewarding for me to shoot at a deer say 50 yards away as it is at 15 yards. Therefore my limit is about 28-30 yards max yards. Why? because I know I can get at least that close, if I can' t that day, the deer wins and we will have another contest someother day..

When I' m shooting my stickbows, 20 yards is my max. I used to go to 30 when I had hair and no grey in my beard, but I' m not nearly as consistently accurate as I used to be. With my compounds, I' ll still shoot 30 yards. That' s with fingers, no sights and big 580 grain aluminum arrows loping along around 210-220 fps. With that setup, I can stack arrows right along with all but the very best sights/release shooters within 30 yards.

I' m good enough shot that I' ve won compound class in a couple of local 3D shoots, even shooting against guys with open class rigs. I could consistently hit a deer' s vitals out to 50 yards. But if I wanted to shoot that far on game I wouldn' t be hunting with a bow. I hunt more for the challenge than I do for the meat and getting close is the challenge I set for myself.

The only time I question someone else' s distance ethics is when they shoot at yardages where they consistently wound animals and don' t recover them.

There is NO archery setup that can justify taking an 80 yd shot at a deer. That' s what guns are for.