Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Bowhunting so, how is your archery at 45 yards an farther?

RedRabbit, That name's not familiar to me..I do recall watching Dick Tone shoot a perfect 300 PAA tho..:)
I never got that good....288 was the best I ever shot in competition..and that was witha 60# longbow and wood arrows..:)Jim

Is that Tim the same one that did taxidermy in Flag? Tims Trophy Taxidermy? If so, I taught hunters safety with him years ago...

Sgt,
That is the same Tim. He has TR Taxidermy and has done several of my mounts.

Jim,
Nice shooting.

Doug~RR

He was the guy that sat in with me the first few classes I taught up in Flag. Have not seen or talked with him in years. Still have that card as it is good for a free bonus point...grin

I can hit your arrows at 20 and 30. I can tear your fletches at 40. I can shoot the two inch red pasties at 50. I can hit the yellow bull on the archery target at 60. I can keep them in the mystical 8" circle (deer vital visualizer) at 70. I can keep them in the target which is about 14" across out to 100. On rare days when there's no wind, I can keep them inside about an eight inch circle with 3 or 4 touching in a given round.

I stuck this in the campfire a week or so ago.

Nice shooting, actually great shooting.
Can you kill a deer?

I don't know about everyone else, target or hunting, that's pretty impressive.

I know bows can kill that far too. My buddy George shot an antelope at 136 yards with his Matthew's Q2 XL. Not bad considering he missed at 90 the first shot. If you can practice that far you can kill that far. Goergie proved that to me and now I believe a Robin hood can be made at 100 yards. who cares how many times it took.


Kique

Jim,
Just a quick update on my shooting. Went out and shot, trying what you suggested, but my range is too short to get an accurate point on distance, I was several feet over the target even at 40 yds. Maybe I'm not doing it right! Anyway, I also took my left hand recurve and shot it some, oddly I shot some really small groups, 3 arrows, and some not so small groups with it but not necessarily on the mark. Shooting right handed, I can hit close to the mark first shot but still not as consistantly as I would like. Closing my left eye when shooting right handed feels really odd as I normally shoot instinctively with both eyes open. Just need to do it more I guess.
Since I am a hunting archer I prefer to rove, so I get what you are saying about light, angle, etc. in the field, but there is nowhere here I can do that. Guess I just need to keep practicing and concentrating on form. It's a fun challenge trying to get better! Thanks for the suggestions and encouragement.

47 yards...

Right thru the antlers at 47 yards, nice shooting...

Rob P..( Mongo..:)
I never have 'robin-hooded' one of my own arrows in over 45 years of shooting..:)

Question, and please don't be offended:

Looking at the angle of incidence on the arrows in the target of your picture, either you have an extremely flat shooting bow...OR you got confused about the distance and it wasn't 100 yards..:)..more like 30..:)

Regardless, keep up the practice at distance as it will enhance your shooting at hunting ranges..Jim

Jim, I have to agree that looks more like under forty yards...those arrows are straight in the target.

Hi folks. The "can I kill a deer" question. That's the point to all the practice. It took me 11 years to get my first RI deer with a bow hunting public land. Last year I got 2 ten seconds apart. The year before, I got one the third day of the season, and another Thanksgiving weekend. Usually one or two a year with a bow. The year before I got one Christmas week. I've also shot an odd dozen in CT, maybe 25 or 30 in all over the last decade. I've gotten about 40 with a rifle in NC in 17 years of hunting down there, and a paltry 2 with the shotgun and the goose egg with the muzzle loader.

As to arrows in said target, it's 100 yds! That's why it's on the Campfire. I wouldn't put up a 20 or a 30. The arrows do come down pretty straight out there, by the way. The other guys with 260 - 300 fps bows all look about the same. The recurve guys, when they can hit the target don't look a whole lot different either. They certainly don't come down like they do in the Braveheart movie.

The farthest deer I've shot with a bow is 45 yds, standing broadside behind a v shaped tree. I had a buck trailing a doe through thick pole timber 40 yds from me this year. I had him at full draw, but he never stopped. I never saw him again. The biggest deer I ever saw was lying in a bull briar patch 40 yds away. He never stood up, just crawled his way out, and I didn't get a shot at him either. The things that go through your head when a deer walks in. So many things have to go right to get a good shot off. There's got to be at least a dozen maybes for every arrow let go.

Rob, I believe ya..:) Good shooting! Jim

I shot in new jersey 2 weeks ago(competition) it was a 70 yard shoot and out of the 100's of shooters 80 percent of us can keep our arrows tighter grouped then some people can freehanding a rifle.

As for a 100, the farthest shot we take in competition is 90 meters in a FITA round, and 80 in a field round. And most the archers in the Cup competitions, worlds, and national tournaments can shoot +- 4 inch groups at the farthest distance.

As for hunting, this is a whole new story. Circumstances are not perfect, there is adrenaline, and the gap for a screw up is far smaller. I have a 60 yard pin on my bow, mainly only for 3-D. Unless everything was absolutely perfect there is no chance that I would send an arrow at a deer 60 yards in the woods.

-FMP

mine sucks.

Was just out back shooting with my daughter...last 3 shots I moved to 45 yds and hit the 3" maple leaf I had stuck in the target with all 3 shots....been a couple of months since I even picked up my bow....It's great having a 7 yr old that likes retrieving my arrows from my 3D deer

Here's a couple pics for ya. - If photobucket's up and running.

Here are the robin hoods at 20 & 30 yds from Sept. 2006. I pulled them apart after that because it got expensive but these get to stay up for the kids to look at. I stuck the 100 yd up there until one of the guys makes a little case for it. See if you can see my name on the plaque.



Here's a friend's arrows stuck in the hundred tonight. They're pretty horizontal too. That seems to be how they land.

Not worth a pinch of [bleep]

Not gonna pick on any of you..:)

BUT IF you enjoy archery and aspire to hunt anything beyond 20 yards out of a tree stand..take the time to work on your archery proficiencies out at least to 45 yards.

Your practical hunting & archery may NEVER require good accuracy at that minimal distance..BUT the practice will help your strength,concentration and accuarcy even if all you ever aspire to hit is a foam target at 15 yards..:) Jim

Just because of this forum post I've started shooting some 50 yarders from my longbows and selfbows. Not only great fun but form deficiencies, especially release errors, are hard to hide.

Jim, do you ever use distance (flight?) shooting to test the cast of your selfbows? I've got the space but I've never tried it.