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Fox:
What do you all think is an acceptable skill level for hunting whitalled with a selfbow?  I got my first deer with riffle last year.. it felt .. to easy 100 yards missed and took out both frontlegs but didn't get any vitals... ran 1/2 mile and i had to cut her throat... would rather not do all that again... so how accurate should one be with a selfbow to hunt?  Thanks

-Fox

mmattockx:
The vital area on a whitetail is maybe 9"-10" in diameter (for a rifle, possibly less for a bow). If you can put all your arrows in that size of a target at whatever range you expect to be shooting at that should be sufficient. Tighter groups are better, of course, but always inside 9" is adequate. It is most important to be practising at least some of your shooting under the same conditions as you will be hunting in. That means ground blind, tree stand, whatever. Also practice estimating ranges, don't just stand at a fixed range and put arrows into a target butt. You need to be able to shoot well from odd positions, shooting uphill and down, around trees, etc.


Mark

Hawkdancer:
How far away can you hit a grapefruit every time, from any angle or position?  What mmatock said plus 2!  A lot of practice!  You will hunt the way you train!
Hawkdancer

GlisGlis:
just for reference try your hand at the finland archery hunt exam
http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,61937.0.html

Pat B:
To me knowing I can put the first arrow of the day in a pie plate at 20 yards and that doesn't take into effect the nerves that accompany that shot at a living animal. For hunting situations more than one arrow isn't generally going to happen.

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