Nope. While distance is a personal choice to an extent (fine line between confidence and chance of error based on environmental factors), I think the glorification of these types of shots (or even encouragement) can lead to some really bad situations for the inexperienced. There was a Facebook post last season by a major bow manufacturer promoting a successful hunt by a hunter at a long range. While I believe that archer fully was capable of shooting that yardage with confidence (I hope), posting it on a public forum such as facebook with such a diverse customer base viewership toting the long yardage accuracy being the result of the BOW, and not the hunter is why I have a problem with these long range discussions.
In all my rants I forgot about crossbows damnit lol that's the weapon of choice for all "fake" hunters lol. I'm gonna shoot a buck over corn at 120 yards with a Excalibur crossbow just to piss off the gallery lol. That episode of South Park is too funny.
I can for sure agree with that. And same goes for many rifle shows where they shoot out to 700 yards. There is a particular group of hunters who call themselves long range hunters. There purpose is to find huge long range shots. So again there a poor influence because average joe goes out with a Remington 700 factory ammo and 3x9 scope shooting 700 yards. At the end of the day we can't sensor everything for the fear of idiots attempting it. IMO opinion a 80 yard modern bow shot is safer then a 600 yard rifle shot. At 80 yards my arrow is dropping about 18" max. On a 270 rifle at 600 yards were talking about 6' of bullet drop. So your really just sailing it. Either way I totally agree with you. And I said in my first post on the topic that this type of shot is not the equipment rather the shooter. It's a ethical question if YOU can answer to and pull it off. Not something for people to generalize and say it can't and shouldn't be done.
This wasn't my intention when I started this thread, but based on the original question I suppose it was bound to happen.
Its not all about the kill. But I could care less if I kill something at 5 yards or 50 yards. If it's something I want to pull the trigger on, that doesn't factor into the equation. I assure you, I do a pretty good job of getting close but I am also not opposed to sitting on a field edge and catching those deer that bed on the next field edge and coming to feed in the fields. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I317 using Tapatalk 2
If you move some or drop your arm a little at lets say 20 to 30 yards there will be an affect but you are most likely going to still be in the kill zone, at 100 yards the affect will be much greater increasing your odds of wounding the animal. The farther away an animal is when you shoot the greater the chances of some type of error, whether it is your form or whether the animal moves. Shooting at a fixed target at that distance is not the same as an animal, I don't care if it is broadside or there is no wind, that target isn't going to turn or step or lick itself in that couple seconds.
At 80 yards, the arrow will be roughly 35 inches high at its highest point .Remember, the bow will be pointed uphill at the shot. To be in the kill zone you only have a 5 yard window on yardage assuming a perfect shot. This is from 77 yards to 82 yards. if the bow were to be aimed level off a high point, the arrow will drop 130 inches at 80 yards. 3.5 inches per yard drop at the target. This will vary upon the setup. I used a 450 gr arrow at 300 fps
Well said...field edges are clutch around here...easy tag fill on a nanny within 2 days or so usually. ..theres always the occasional dry period though:banghead: Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I727 using Tapatalk 2
I believe I watched the same show. The guy had to army crawl behind some farming equipment. The hunter did however, make a clean shot. 100yds is not in my range, my cutoff is 55 yds. But I also hunt blacktail, which are in most cases, a little smaller than whitetail. Everybody has there own "Max", shoot whatever your comfortable with.
So, I was out with my friend who shoots a bowtech. At approximately 60 yards, with a probably 320IBO bow, it look roughly 1.2-1.5 seconds to go 60 ft with field tips. I think I may have been wrong earlier in stating that 100yards would ~ 1.2 seconds. I think it is more like 2 seconds, did anyone try using a stopwatch?
Lol stop watch. Do you seriously think your quick enough to hit that switch twice? Seriously. 60 yards is easily less than a second. The arrow travels at 300fps on average out of the bow. That's 100 yards in 1 second assuming arrow speed is constant. In order for your timing to be right for 60 yards. Using simple math your timing tells me that the average arrow speed to achieve 60 yards in 1.2 seconds assuming arrow leaving bow is 300 fps would be 150fps. I highly doubt it's average speed was 150fps. That's not even possible as that's half the speed it left at. Meaning it needed to slow to almost 0fps to create that timing.
