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Have far do you typically shoot? All of my bow stands are tripods. They are set up 20 yards from the feeder. I have one 4x6 bow box also at 20 yards from feeder. The box is the best bet to kill a turkey. It's hard to get the bow pulled back on a group of turkeys. I don't think I've ever killed a deer any farther than 30 yards.

If you need a tripod to shoot a bow, you may want to pursue another sport.

farest kill is 85 yds for me

That's funny right there!

I wouldn't shoot past 30 w stickbow, or 60 with wheels.
Actually, I'd prefer 25 and under for stickbow and less than 50 with wheels.

our deer jump string most of the time.

I've found over the years, fast or slow, that if I follow one rule, regardless stick bow, wheels(never had cams) or crossbow, I'm good to go without a single issue of a bad hit or a miss.

I keep my shots at 15 yards and less. Pretty simple and if set up correctly patience will reward me as often as I desire.

At one point I thought it was about being accurate... I could hit something the size of a coke can way on out.. softball or so at 90 yards which my far sight pin at the time. Shooting every day. With weight and being young. Never realized how dumb it all was.

I've seen other deer in states that appear not to jump string so much. but I still don't trust it. Especially having seen elk and mule deer do it too. One cost me a bad hit at 42 yards when he wheeled... took a number of hours of trailing to find him finally.

So I run 15 and less and never worry.

I don't pull bow back unless they have their head down eating. They look up when you pull back, you have a couple seconds to shoot. We always hunt out of a tripod or a ground blind. I don't understand the comment about hunting out of a tripod or getting another sport??

Thinking that was a tripod rest to shoot from but not sure. Just read where a guy killed a cow elk at 90 yards. No mention of how many ran off with arrows in them.

You just sit in the tripod, no type of rest involved. It's hard to hunt on the ground, get a shot off with spooking the game. Bunches of pigs here, I like being up in the air. I have one bow stand in a tree. Mountain lions here also. I've killed a doe on foot with a bow, just luck.

I am not a good archer. I like 15 yards and closer.
I did kill one deer in Nevada years ago at about 60 yards, but I should not have even tried it. I just got lucky.

I have missed more then I care to admit to at 25-30 yards.

So ------------for me, I like 15 and closer

I'm a 20 to 30 yd hunter. I chased turkeys around one day. I hit one at 40 yds, but I demo'ed 7 or 8 arrows. I had fun!!

Had to make clarification.........

I'll shoot to 30 w stickbow in the early season.
Too jumpy after gun season starts.........20 and under.

how far I shoot depends on the target. Just shooting target in my yard I'll shoot out to 70 yards. On an elk I will take the right 50 yard shot. I prefer my turkey to be 10 - 15 yards. Antelope this year was a chip shot at 32 yards.

Me too,which is why I switched to stick bows. At that distance just much faster and less complicated for me. I missed an opportunity on a large buck several years ago with a confounded bow because my string had nearly broken under the serving. It had stretched so much that the 80lb bow didn't roll the cams over reducing the weight until about an inch from full draw. When it did I was straining so hard I pulled my arrow off the rest and never got the shot at the buck that I could have killed with a cement block. I was a long way from an archery shop and my 2 day hunt was ended right there the first morning because of equipment failure.

Didn't Janet Jackson have an equipment issue.

I haven't had a bow failure yet, I've left my release in camp before.

I've never left my release "in camp" before, but I did leave it at home one time. Every since then when I take my release off of my wrist I attach it directly to my bow. Never been without since.

Don't put the release on the lower limb.........lots of screwed up bows come to my local pro shop because of that.
Slide down and get tangled in the wheel.

I keep mine on my bow now also!

I've shot targets at 75yards, but my limit with animals is 45-50 depending on the shot available. I have never used a release, and I do not hold at full draw waiting for that perfect shot. I do not draw at all until the shot is right, then draw and loose as almost one movement. I use no sights on a bow, and one pin only on a crossbow.

I have pins peeps and levels. Still shoot so so. I was better 40 years ago.