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Atlatlista:

--- Quote from: killir duck on November 17, 2013, 07:19:01 pm ---well I've been bow hunting for five years now and so far have only shot a cow elk it was a 55 yard shot (I practice daily out to 80 yards) ranged with a rangefinder after the shot she walk-trotted about 25 yards stopped, looked over her shoulder and fell right there, she left a blood trail a blind man could follow, I used a 64# tri-lam r/d longbow 580 gn. cane arrows with 155 gn tusker single bevel broadheads, aprox. 600# live weight, shot out of a treestand,   Duck

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55?  That's pretty intensely long range for hunting.  Does it affect your penetration any?  I mean, clearly it's still lethal, but at what difference does your performance really start to taper off?

killir duck:
i got a complete pass through, you have to have a razor sharp broadhead i don't mean just kinda sorta sharp i mean poppin hair off your arm sharp, that and properly tuned equipment and heavy arrows also proper arrow place is hugely important, and yes that is stretching it  i wouldn't shoot at any animal past 60 yards and evan then everything has to be absolutely perfect.

P.S. the bow is 64#@28" i draw 30" so that's about 68-70#

Ryan_Gill_HuntPrimitive:
thanks,   the 800y recovery was an odd case on how I got there,   I was hunting during a snow storm that was just finishing up. The trail to the tree I was hunting was very steep and rock a required a hand to scale the rocks. When I hunt I always have my leather finger tab on my hand.  By using my hand to help get up the rocks, I got the leather wet in the snow. I kept it in my pocket most of the evening to keep my fingers warm.. By doing so, I also kept it wet.  I saw a couple does coming along the trail and pulled my hand from my pocket  and placed in on the string. 15 or so minutes passed before the does, and buck following them, came into range.  Apparently during this time the leather had actually froze around the string. So when I drew and released I got a horrible release and the fingertab was nearly ripped clear off my hand.  This not only changed the arrow's course but robbed a lot of energy from the arrow. The arrow hit low under the liver in the front of the gut.   By this time the snow had ceased and there was a fresh blanket on the ground.  I followed the fresh tracks in the snow the next morning up and down hills. The hit obviously did not do very much damage at all but it was enough to finally turn the buck septic and bring him down.  To be honest it was a rugged situation that I don't like to brag about much, that is why I didnt give much info.  This is how you DO NOT want bow hunting to go..  Luckily with the snow I was able to track  him cleanly until he bedded a few times and got up and wandered and I eventually found him.  As the crow flies he was about 500 yards from hill top to hill top from where I shot him, but he went down hill, uphill and in a circling direction not to mention back and forth on top of the hill many times over.  I figured 800y was a pretty realistic range that he actually traveled.  800yards in open MT country for an injured Muley buck, actually seems much less distance than say 400y in the eastern woodlands.

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