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I've had no problems shooting wise with a WB, have one on my oneida LFM I plan hunting with this season.
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I like 'em too, but you can't draw an arrow through it on one of our mature whitetails without alerting them. I understand it's different in other locals.
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Walk back tuning for me. Just shoot the arrows I intend to hunt with. I use to paper tune, bare and fletched, then walk back. I eliminated the paper tune and haven't been able to tell a difference. I do my part I get good groups out to 70 and I will never see that far in a hunting situation much less shoot that far.
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Some people can do it, but past 50 yards I'm getting out the metal detector! Today I'd probably need a detector at 30 yards....
We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....
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Mule deer almost always bolt when spooked, then stop to look back... coues deer WT take off when they decide it's time and don't quit.
In the open Az desert most opportunities are longish but the mule deer will stand there curious. In the 80s and 90s I killed some at long distance and some at short... now that I'm in my 50s my range has shrunk... 40 is my real max.
It's about shooting vertical and ranging... another indicator of a tuned bow/arrow/head combo is keeping all shots on a vertical line, as the vitals are stacked vertical.
Horizontal stringing wounds and is an indicator of tuning issues. It's the biggest issue I see with hunters I take out.
Walkback tune on a hanging string, once I get to a 5 or 6 inch horizontal spread, that's my untimate max... sometimes it's 50, other times it's 60... so 40s my hunting max.
Getting old, a few floaters in my right eye, not as steady on my hold... Killing stuff doesn't seem as important anymore, animals can walk.
Kent IMHO vitals are actually stacked diagonally more so than anything, which makes them, IMHO, an unfair target.....
We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....
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I like 'em too, but you can't draw an arrow through it on one of our mature whitetails without alerting them. I understand it's different in other locals. This. I got to CO once... guy had a flipper, bare metal, not even the teflon tube... AL arrows.... I said no way in hell. He killed a cow elk, I never got a shot... But he would never have drawn more than an inch or two on our whitetail.. I put moleskin over the rest, and with AL arrows and have done it with carbon too, car wax on the shafts. Sucks looking at the shaft for blood, but damn slick and quiet to draw.
We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....
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I like 'em too, but you can't draw an arrow through it on one of our mature whitetails without alerting them. I understand it's different in other locals. You cant be serious....?
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Crossed Arrows Archery LLC Authorized Obsession Bows Dealer Custom Strings/Tuning www.crossedarrowsarcheryllc.comBlack Eagle Arrows Pro Staff, Montana Black Gold Shooting Staff, Dead Center Archery Products Shooting Staff
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The only thing worse than a liberal is a liberal that thinks they're a conservative.
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I like 'em too, but you can't draw an arrow through it on one of our mature whitetails without alerting them. I understand it's different in other locals. Its easy to tell who's been there and who hasn't. I got laughed at by "experts" over at the handgun forum when I opined that the metallic click from a single-action revolver could spoil a whitetail treestand hunt in a heartbeat. A noisy safety on a rifle will do the same thing. With a bow you have noise AND movement unless that bow is utterly silent. Hunting out west where the wind typically blows most of the time and their is "white noise" from rustling foliage makes it a different game. A foggy 40F morning in a southeastern hardwood bottom can be absolutely cathedral/pin-drop quiet.
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Silent Draw. Silent at the shot. Thats the way I like my bow. And a WB just dont offer that option
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Not having 100% contact on your arrow never hurts either!
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True that. And having something other than the 0 effective brace height the WB offers cant hurt either 
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Don't try to tell that to the WB Disciples!
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Killing chit isn't as hard as opinion on the Internet professes... luckily...
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lol ok.... I guess those S.E. Texas deer are different than N. Texas deer that get hunted just as hard...
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Chit easy to kill if you and your equipment r up to the task
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Killing chit isn't as hard as opinion on the Internet professes... luckily...
Kent Your right but your logic is wrong. Otherwise you would be using sticks and stones to kill chit! There are many tools to get the job done. Some tools better then others.
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If I used sticks and stones I'd kill stuff, if I used a 50 bmg I'd kill stuff... I use what I want and don't disparage another man's choice... especially when I'm just speculating.
Getting the choice to perform at it's optimum... i.e. 'tuning' is the issue. Whether a club or a bazooka... and yes I've killed with a club.
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