I always find these threads comical. Flame away lol http://youtu.be/eIn1G8BeUuc Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I317 using Tapatalk
That is the best case scenario when they don't hear the shot or at the least don't jump the string and just sit there to receive the arrow. Not always the case but great when it occurs.
I wouldn't say bs on the baseball sized 80. This was my 60 from this summer and I am 14. With a lot of practice it is very doable. There is a guy on YouTube Cameron hanes who is not a tournament archer and puts up 12 inch groups at 160. Entirely possible Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD
I'm not saying people shouldn't take an 80 yard shot. I'm just laughing when they claim its a necessity because they hunt out west. If you are comfortable with it, do it. No skin off my back. Just don't blow smoke to others that you had to. If you stop for a shot at 80, how do you know you couldn't have gotten closer? That's really my only point. Guys who claim they group in a baseball sized group at 80 need to enter the Olympics because you are among the best in the world, with a hunting bow no less.
Matt, you shot a deer running full bore at 325 yards? A nd claim you hit it? My it's getting deep. I'll call BS once again
Cameron hanes can nail a ten ring at 80 every time. With a hunting bow Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD
LOL! And you know this how, because a clip of his show showed him do it 4-5 times? Statements like this are exactly what my post was about in the first place. Look guys, I'm not saying people can't be proficient at longer ranges... Just that if it was to the degree of precision preached on forums, these professional target guys are chumps compared to us hunters even though they have the far superior equipment. I won't approach the whole animals aren't targets thing because everyone has their opinion there and it won't change because of a forum. I will say if you do the math, you will be SHOCKED how much time an animal has to move from when you drop the string at 100 yards.
Here's the best in the world at , 70 meters I believe. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zRJ6LMaCxJs Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I317 using Tapatalk
i shot deer all the time at 300+ yds on the run. aim right at the front of the chest and they drop everytime. Edit: Hell i've done it at night with spot lights on crop dmg permit's. I've been rifle shooting since i was 6, Shooting 600yds open sights with my dads FN in quarry holes at 10.
Aim right at the front of the chest of a running deer at 300yds, and they drop every time? You have spotlights that shine 300 yds? Open sights at 600yds? Oh boy
No it's not. Half the bow hunters west of the Mississippi are better than that! Lol Cam is certainly an impressive shot my friend, but a YouTube clip shows nothing for consistency. If he could do as you claimed (heck I'm sure with his ego he has claimed it himself a time or two), he would place among the best archers in the world with inferior equipment. Color me skeptical.
I have 2 book speedgoats taken in Wyoming @ less then 10 yards. Bake your brain all day in a windmill waterhole and they have to come for a drink sometime.Point being everyone has an effective range. I suck@pistols because I never practice. Some guys should not take a bow shot past 20 and a rifle shot past 100 while others are good to yardage well beyond this.
Like him or not Cameron Hanes wrote the book. I read it, and tip my hat. As for long shots. Do what ya gotta do.
Not to brag, but I once killed a unicorn at 372 yards with a recurve in a tornado. For me, at the time, it was well within my abilities.
