Ahh...The Pythagorean Theorem. Thats one of the few math formulas Im really good at. I loved that one.

Don't thank me.... Thank my daughter Jessica - the college math wiz (she helped me, then teased me afterwards "Dad, you're such a dork!" )

Butch A.

Thanks for that advice. I need all the help I can get. There is a picture of me with my bow on the Religion part of this forum posted The Real Chuck.

C ya ,
Chuck

butch! you're suppose to say thank you! it's funny how you forget all that stuff.

Tell me about it!!! It's hard to believe Mrs. Finnigan's horrible geometry class was back in 1977! [&:]

Butch A.

Just to add a bit to the discussion...last year I was in a similar scenario. A doe walks up to my stand about 6 yards away (heavy undergrowth) and I am approximately 20 feet up the tree...where do I am? High? Low? Right on?

After I see some suggestions I will tell you what happened.

I'd have to say aim below where you want to hit, with no gravity creating trajectory the arrow should just come right up thru your line of sight & keep going.

I would let her get a little farther away. I shot a 3 point this past year with my rifle, this deer was nasty, someone made a horrible shot on this deer with a bow. The arrow entered about half way back up by the spine and exited half way down about 1/4 from the back (or about centered in the guts) area. This tells me that the person shooting should not have been in the woods with a bow. It was a quartering toward shot, with a steep angle and they hit him high and too far back. I would never try a shot like this guy did. Idid this poor, skinny, infected deer a favor.

The arrow went lower than where I was aiming. It was a clean miss.

Just always remeber to bend at the waist and aim for the exit hole.In other words, the steeper the shot The higher you need to aim because the lower the exit hole will be.