Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Shooting and Hunting => Topic started by: whitewoodshunter on February 27, 2009, 07:10:53 pm
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What is you effective shooting range at game and then at a target? Mine is 20 at game and 25 at a target( I get lucking and hit the target once in a while)
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Mine is 25-30 on game, but 50-60, and I'm working on 70 yards or target.
Of course, I'm hoping to break 100 yards with a selfbow on target, but I need to make a faster bow.
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Never measured the distance!
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I never measure the distance either but I'd guess about 20 to 25 yards if everything is just right. I prefer 12 to 15 yards for game though. Probably the same at targets but I take shots at targets that I would not take at an animal.
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Right with ya there Pat!
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I have shot prarie dogs and ground squirrels out to fourty yards with a selfbow consistently... the last several big game harvests for me have all been between fifteen and eighteen yards... some were much closer ;D even an idiot gets lucky once in a while ;) as far as targets, I practice at fifteen and twenty yards... but have been known to fling them out there near seventy yards just to see what will happen... Hawk
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You fling Arrows out here to 70 yards or so....and you either get broken Arrows....or you dont find them again...... :P
And there aint no Stump Shootin here either.....the Stumps....if you can find one....are as hard as Rocks...but then so is the Ground!!!
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;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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So i guess i'm pretty normal? I like my game close!!!
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Ill practice out to 50 yards or so. I don't want to shoot at an animal over 20. 3/4 of the hunt is the stalk for me so I usually try to get to within 3-4 yards if I can. But I will stalk and draw down on an animal that I cant cant shoot on just for entertainment. I do break my share of arrows shooting at those distances, but I don't mind. I have fun shooting and that is what it is about anyway. Justin
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I guess 25 yards max on targets. That is if I want to find the arrow. ;D Hunting I want to be less than 15 yards. Maybey I should try to extend that so I can actually shoot something. ;)
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Practicing out to longer distances can improve your close in shooting. You just have to know your hunting limit and stick to it. There are times when you might make a shot that is out of the ordinary but it should just happen without thought.
A few years ago at my club in GA I was headed into a wooded area to put a climber in a favorite tree. When I entered the woods I could see a deer standing under my tree about 50 yards away. I squatted, removed my climber from my back, nocked an arrow and hit a toot on my grunt call. The little buck that was under my tree turned and ran full steam right at me. When he got to about 10 yards he turned hard to my right, all four feet came out from under him and he hit the ground, now only feet away. Then he was up and gone. I caught movement from where he came and saw 5 other deer coming my way but to my left. Without thinking I drew and swung and released...and dead centered a 3" sweet gum tree. The deer were about 15 yards out when I shot.
A running shot isn't a shot I would normally take but instincts set in and the shot was made without conscious thought. Damn sweet gum! ;D
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Practicing out to longer distances can improve your close in shooting. You just have to know your hunting limit and stick to it. There are times when you might make a shot that is out of the ordinary but it should just happen without thought.
Pat's right. If any little part of your form is incinsistent at lng range, you will make a terrible miss. However, it is good practice and lots of fun (and really makes compouner's eyes bulge ;)).
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20 yds. and under for me.Longer shots at targets are fun to do though.Even when I used the wheelie bow(bare fingers and instinct too)the game I harvested was usually under 20 yds except for 1 deer.Good hunting-Lloyd
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Never shoot past 25yds,I'd say 15 is my comfort zone.....I always said that ifin they are under 5 yds,then they are dead.......I proved myself wrong this year...:)
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I always said that ifin they are under 5 yds,then they are dead.......I proved myself wrong this year...:)
That is the other reason I stalk and draw down on animals I can't shoot. It is good practice for the nerves. ;)
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Nice shot on the sweetgum Pat, I have a few of those to my credit also ;D I prefer 10-15 yards, but have taken shots that "felt" right further out(25-30) depending on the situation and conditions.
Tracy
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Maximum effective target range: 25 yards. Maximum effective hunting range: 10-15 yards (if I hunted).
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I shoot pretty good out to 20/25 on a range but if you gut shoot a target the only thing it hurts is my feelings.For hunting I like 10 and closer,I have killed a few deer father than that but like Pat said I wasn't evening thinking about,if I had I probably wouldn't have shot. :)
Pappy
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For hunting I like 10 and closer,I have killed a few deer father than that but like Pat said I wasn't evening thinking about,if I had I probably wouldn't have shot. :)
Pappy
Thats it exactly Pappy.....could not have rounded up the words any better than That