Jumping the string

I regularly shoot deer at 40 yards and deer keep jumping my string. I have made my bow whisper quiet but I can't stop it. It happens at 30 yards too. And my bow shoots 300 fps so it's moderately fast. What do I do?

 

Shoot 20 yards, set up better, get closer. Thats why we bow hunt.

 

Aim low or get closer.

 

Jumping the string happens as much if not more at distances under 20 yards than over.

The key is to shoot at relaxed animals. Stopping an animal will almost guarantee it is on full alert and will jump the string.

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But the effects are decreased by the simple facts of time laps, arrow speed at twenty yards has decreased incrementally less than the starting speed factored over the time frame that the same arrow travels over 40 yards.

 

^^^Exactly my first thought^^^

 

I stopped more deer then I can count with a low whistle and haven't had many string jumper or high misses that I recall.

I would do couple things. First check you set up, it may sound quite to you while shooting but from the deers perspective there maybe an obvious noise they are picking up on that's spooking them. Shoot a target from a tree stand and have a friend on ground listening , make sure he is a safe spot.... Next thing I would look at is you stand sets...why are the deer so on edge? Could be your area, maybe its getting a lot of pressure and they are just jumpy. If that doesn't draw any conclusions....get then closer and aim low.

 

I hunt on public ground were the deer are all neurotic. They're jumpy on a good day and twice as jumpy if you make any noise to stop them.

I still try to stop them but I also aim low, at the elbow (heart), and I take 25 yard or less shots. I definitely have worse luck with string jumping at deer over 20 yards than on the deer less than 20. The closer deer just don't have the time to drop enough.

 

Well I already know my bow is really quiet, I have had misses on relaxed deer and they don't even run. If it is my bow what can I do to quiet it out? I already have a string stop,cable leeches, string leeches, an 8 inch limb saver s-coil , limb dampeners, and silent shelf pad. Any suggestions I think it is pretty quiet.

 

Arrows aren't the quietest thing in the world flying through the air in the silence of the woods. Field points with blazers aren't exactly quiet, Add a razor blade to the end of it and you might as well have a 3 year old child with a party noise maker in the stand when you let it fly. I don't know if you have ever stood down range of an arrow or shot outside i. A setting that would reflect the noise back to you but, you can definitely hear one coming. I have yet to hear a silent arrow. Stretch that flight out to 40yd and it doesn't matter how quiet your bow is. Try getting closer first and foremost but, if you must shoot deer at 40yd start trying to quiet your arrows down. All else fails shoot them at 25 or less and I doubt they will jump the string that much any more.

 

Now that sounds like your just plane missing the deer! How long have you been bow hunting?

 

No I'm not misses. Sometimes I miss but it is very obvious they duck

 

And u have been bowhunting 4 years

 

I am 14

 

Easy julien. S&S said what I was going to. He's just trying to help, as is everyone else on this thread.

Reguardless, I'd lower the yardage you shoot at an animal until you figure out what's going on.

 

Julien, I asked simple questions to try to help. I haven't been hunting for years but, because of this sight and the guys on this sight, I am years ahead of my actual time frame of hunting. In trying to give suggestions here as I have been given along the way. There are guys in this sight who have been hunting twice as long as you have been alive and won't take shots outside of 25yds. Why? Because of this very reason. Get closer and see what happens. You will reduce missed shots (no matter the reason) to hardly none if any.

 

Okay sounds good, and most if my deer are moving so I have to stop them and they are alert.

 

That would be one reason why they are so on edge. Yell, whistle, grunt, whatever, you just made a foreign noise so they are trying to figure what the heck was that and then it's backed up with a second noise and now they are done!

 

That may be true but due to the fact a noise comes from very close to the animal (some refer to it as the BOO factor ) a deer is much more likely to duck to run at the noise of the bow than at distances greater than that.

The arrow noise may be more of a factor at longer distances.

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My son is 14 and i would consider him an excellent shot and i tell him not to take shots over 30 yards. There is more to killing a deer at distances beyond that than just being able to shoot.

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