Please list the distance and poundage of your bow. I'll start - whitetail doe -23 yards 64lb @ 28 - re-curve complete pass through....
Whitetail doe 32yrds 62lbs@29" recurve.
47 yards , mid body , wish I had the same confidence on all my shots , by the way it was a gray squirrel , pinned him to the ground 73# recurve , even I get lucky sometimes , Fred
Whitetail buck, 46 yards, 61@30
54 yards 62 lbs, whitetail, heart shot
Blue Jay, 50 yards, 40# recurve, #4 Micro-flites...Van
Rabbit, 47 yards, 45# longbow, cedar arrow, head shot. Even a blind hog finds an acorn every now and then.
Tom
Groundhog, 46 paces, right on the shoulder, 45#@28" bear grizzly. Probably the shot of my lifetime!
Adeeden
112 yds, standing buffalo (I wish, it was a 3D, last year!) Pro-kill/ heart shot. 72# Pronghorn, 65/70 11/32" Boyton Pine arra!
Tried it another 11 times from the same spot, completely missed the bugger, every time!
It'll never happen to me again. That was my one lucky shot of a lifetime!
whitetail buck 14yds longbow 46@28
'bowhunting is not about how far...it's about how close'
I remember this quote because my "effective" range is still under 20 yards, but I'm gettin better.
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I usually don't tell people this because I know it was the wrong thing to do, but since you asked. Whitetail doe, 93 paces uphill (I would estimate it to be about 60-70 yards), lung shot, 70@30.
Let me just say that it was an irresponsible shot and I got lucky. I had stalked that deer for an hour or so and then when I finally got within 20 yards and shot the arrow snagged some tall grass and was sucked down. The deer spooked and ran up the hill and just stood there snorting at me. I was young and cocky and frustrated so I nocked another arrow aimed about 6 feet above it's back and let it fly. When it stuck it in the side I couldn't believe it. Wouldn't dream of a shot like that now. I pass up 30 yards all the time.
45 paces, Central Barrenground Caribou, 68 pound longbow, cedar arrow, with 125 gr Ribtek. Shot was a little low, about 8 inches from the brisket, L&R good. He took about 20 steps and laid down.
Bowmania
51 yards P&Y Cottontail Rabbit with a 59lb longbow. REALLY lucky shot at a REALLY unlucky rabbit. He tasted good though.
55 yards, ground squirrel, #68 Morrison
Ive shot a few animals at 40, its my point. With the wheels thats a diffrent story
['bowhunting is not about how far...it's about how close']
I agree!
Mine was 37 yards on a 8 point Whitetail with a Bear Grizzly recurve, 55# @ 28". Now I try to keep my shots 20 yards or less.
52 yards, jackrabbit,old Ben Pearson fiberglass static curve,40#@28",dowell self nock arrow with homemade broadhead. Luckiest shot I have ever made. This was around 1965 on a ranch outside Ozona, Texas.
Danny
18 yards 175# feral hog boar. Winterwind LB 63#@28" 2020 aluminum arrow Ribtek 145 grain head. Heart shot. Longest on Whitetails 17 yards. Most under 15 yards. One at ten feet.
Deer 25 yds
Javalina 15 yds
Javalina 10 yds
and 3-d out to 74 yds
42lb longbow 54 and 56in. at a 24" draw length.
all pass-throughs
Chort
49 paces jack rabbit 63 @28 longbow. i would never try that shot on any big game animal. my effective range is just under 30 yards
Havent made a trad kill yet...determined to get a bunny though. LOL.
I still dont get why people get all bent out of shape on longer shots? This wasnt directed at anyone just thinking out loud lol
Dove...70+ paces, 60#
Chipmunk...30+ paces,60#
Big Game.......Pronghorn 40+ paces this year, 62#
90 percent of what I kill is under 15yds....
55yds stationary stump broadside :rolleyes: w/ flu-flu and witnesses. :thumbsup:
I still never got that pic Cleve!!!! Where's the witness???? LOL!!!
Robin - 10 yards with a matchbox car when I was 6.
Deer - 37 yards with training wheels.
I'm still a virgin when it comes to the stick.
My longest Recurve kill was a Bear at 2 feet from the end of my broadhead!!!!
My longest Longbow kill would probably be on a Squirrel at 30 yards. BTW it was a lucky shot!!!
Big Game Longbow kill would be about 20-22 yards. I am going to go for a little farther shot on a bear this spring if I get a chance. There is just no challenge shooting them at 2 feet.
Brian, look under va skwerl hunt thread Talondale posted'em. Don't make me send you a new pet! :eek: :D ;)
"Yes Sir" - Said in a very shaky girlish voice!!!
I got 12 of those little pets in the mail today from a fellow in the States, but they were the rubber ones sold by black widow as string silencers. I love those things, not their live cousins!!!!
12 yard whitetail buck. Last buck was at 10 feet. But I did shoot a skwerl at 30 yards......all Self-Bow.
Starling, about 180 yards - 3 wood. One of the few birdies I ever had when I golfed. :D
Out of quite a few deer kills over the years I honestly can't remember one over 20 yards. And that includes while I was still on the dark side!
30 yards years ago with a compound.
18 yards with my recurve, deer on both.
JDS III
Neighbors fighting rooster. 24 yards. Carbon arrow with snaro tip.
thats freakin hillarious about the robin and the matchbox car, i dont care who ya are!! I literally laughed out loud. I suppose its so funny cause i can see a younger me doing that.
Kyle
wifishkiller - Your post got me thinking. A skillfully made long shot on a target is an impressive feat. Especially if it can be done repeatedly. However, mathematically there is potential for disaster in taking long shots on live game. I made some quick calculations just for my own mental reference. Hope I did this right.
Speed factor - If you figure an arrow left the bow at 185 FPS and a deer is 40 yards away it will take .65 seconds to reach the deer. If your bow makes a "twang" or your feathers sing those sounds will travel at 1100 FPS reaching the deers ears in .12 seconds. That gives the deer a full half second to react. If it moves the arrow could strike it in a less than desirable location. This is not even taking into consideration the fact that the arrow's velocity decreases downrange.
Penetration factor - As downrange velocity decreases so does the energy of the arrow. Less energy means less penetration.
Windage factor - The farther the shot the more exposure it has to deflection by the wind. A side wind could push an arrow more to the side with every yard traveled.
i'm with ishiwannnabe still...but i'm working on it
years ago i pegged a bluegrouse at 30 yds with a wheelie bow...it flew off and we found it the next day after a lot of looking...
bunnies beware :D
With a 30/30, 225 yards running shot, with a trad bow, 8'! Pat
cottontail,
40 somthin yards,
absolute luck!!!
with a 47 pound recurve!!!
A doe at about 28 yards. Shawnee Traditions Longbow 58# @ 30". Hap
Whitetail buck at 30 yds. with a PAW Somerset longbow. 48#. 418gr Axis with a 125gr Snuffer. Complete pass through and a very short track.
I double lunged a McKenzie elk over the summer with the same setup at 80 yds but that was as much luck as anything! Impressed the hell out of my compound toting friends though!
My longest kill was at 24 yds on a spike white tail. He was in that fast, nose to the ground doe following walk. Made a decent hit and he went about 50 yds after the shot. It was my first white tail with a bow, a long time ago. The bow was a 60 lb Rothaar recurve.
Speaking of our best target shots, in the early 80's, me and my buddy were following a group of compound shooters at a shoot who were giving us "friendly" grief as we waited for them about "why we would limit ourselfs when you could easily kill a deer at 50 yards with a compound". Our answer was we do ok with our recurves and saw no need to modernize. Finally, after they shot at (and didn't hit) a moose at 90 yards they said to go ahead and shoot through. As we were following this group they really hadn't seen us shoot yet. We both made fine shots into the kill zone of the moose. We acted like it was an everyday occurance, grabbed our arrows and left them standing with thier jaws on the ground. Life is good.
This seems like a set-up but here goes. I shot a woodchuck once with my entire family watching (reunion) that was walking across a filed @ 78 steps. I also killed my second whitetail with a 45# Browning Stalker at 75 yds. I was using a High Precision head and cedar arrow and it went right through. I've shot a mule deer and one other whitetail at 40+ yds. and even with those added in my average kill distance with a bow is 17 yds. Heck, my average distance with my scoped 7mm is 23 yds.!
Well if hot wheels, golf balls and wheelie bows count....37 yards Eastern Tom 24 lbs, 11 3/4 beard.Compound. Still working on my first with a trad.
47 yards, from up in a tree, monster 6-point buck with a puny rack. 45# Kodiak Magnum, fibreglass arrows, Bear Razorheads.
Pure luck and the shaking was so bad it's what made the connection.
Never again. 20 yards or closer, or I pass.
65 yards on some kind of pretty bird with a long bow. Ok I was young.
80 yards, Schaffer Silver Tip Recurve hit a dove on the ground, knocked out feathers and rolled him over. Retrieved my arrow but the bird was gone.
Don't ask how many I missed that were a lot closer
Well, one time when I was bald eagle hunting I took a spotted owl at about 75 ,,,,????? Only joking,I just cant do it past 20 yards I passed on a lot of backstrap and turkey fillets this year at about 20yards and beyond after seeing how my arrows slowed on the range at 30 yards.It is a lot of fun shooting those 3d elk at 50 and 60 yards even at 8$ an arrow.But if you know you can effectively do it, go for yours on those 30 yard shots.Dont limit yourself to other peoples limits.
Neighbor's "alpha" male barn cat, 60 paces in a pasture in 1955, 40# Blackhawk "Wasp", wood arrow w/field point.
My buddy thought I was soooo cool. We went to the shed, got a shovel, buried the cat on the spot--Mom still found out in two days. I got month of hard labor doing anything the neighbor told me to do.
Nice 125+ eight point whitetail at 37 long steps.46 LB. SUPER DIABALO @28, Ben Pearson Dead Heads , cedar shaft. I'm now like many others, I pass on anything much beyond 25yds and perfer 15yds.
35yds,up hill,55lb recurve,carbon arrows,150gr magnus=one dead wild boar.
45yds .... whitetail ..... head on .... 41# target bow.
First deer I ever shot. I was shooting FITA targets at 90 meters so this looked close. She only went 20 yards.
I have more sense now...I think ( my wife may not agree )
Bowwalker
Wheels
54 Yards Whitetail Doe
Recurve
27 Yards Whitetail Doe 45lb @ 28"
In 1973 I took a mulie buck at 65 after missing him at 40. Still got the picture in my mind, dropped about 10 yards away.
Old Ways I get what you're saying. But you also got to figure in that the closer you get (stalking im not talking stands or blinds) the more jumpy a animal will get. I had way more weird things happen with deer jumping and moving under 20 then over. I like shooting calm deer a little farther then a wired one at 12 yards. I get what you're saying though! :thumbsup:
So many people miss that point, Adam...
With a trad bow, 15 yards, a cottontail
I hear yea!
Coyote @ 120+ yards, witnessed. 57 lb recurve, 2219 and a Bear razor. Pure luck, spotted the coyote in the field as I was unloading the truck to go hang a stand. Figured I would take a shot as I was heading that way anyhow. Crossed the fence, watched him hunt mice, and let one go way over his back. He started spinning in circles and then tipped over. Arrow came down between his shoulders and stuck in the ground.
Friend asked me to shoot him again from there, I told him I would be right back, heading to town for a lottery ticket.
52 yards (and that is with my buddy's laser ranger finder. He was standing next to me.)Caribou. 56# pound longbow @ 28 Goldtip arrow.
QuoteOriginally posted by KyleAllen:
thats freakin hillarious about the robin and the matchbox car, i dont care who ya are!! I literally laughed out loud. I suppose its so funny cause i can see a younger me doing that.
Kyle
My Dad came home and asked me if I felt bad, then he called me murderer. And he's an archery hunter.
He hasn't harvested anything bigger than rabbit with the bow.
But I sure have over the years. I guess he was right.
whitetail buck,62 pases,last day long time ago,,55lb. recurve pass through both lungs.shot just felt right
Jamie;
Great handle.
Forgot the first blood with my MOAB was a yard rat at 13 yards. It hopped up on my foam block as I was practicing form. Form was good and he was skewered. 63#@27.5", 625 grain tapered Cedar arrow.
#70 Super Diablo, ceader shaft zwickey 2 blade. Spike Elk 47 yards steep downhill.
Would never do it again and I had no idea it was that far. I watched him coming through the timber and thought to myself if he comes by that tree I can kill him. I cow called to stop him and let er' go. I saw the arc of the arrow and thought immediately I shot over then watched it drop in. He went about 80 yards and piled up. When my hunting partner showed up I had him stand where I was and walked to where the Elk was I was shocked to say the least, little embarrassed as well.
Much can go wrong at that distance and I do not advocate it, heck I got lucky.
Been almost ten years and I can still see that arrow well over his back and then drop in, instictive archery is cool.
Deer at 35 yards with 60# Martin Damon Howatt Hunter
Deer at 58 yards with wheels.
QuoteOriginally posted by Plumbob:
Been almost ten years and I can still see that arrow well over his back and then drop in, instictive archery is cool.
:thumbsup: :thumbsup:
50-53# recurves
60yards woodchuck
22yards rabbit
18yards whitetail
wifishkiller - Not if they don't know you are there till you poke 'em in the side. :bigsmyl:
Old Ways lol, A few years back in WY me and my dad glassed a half doz. bucks put them to bed. 3 hours later i was standing 5 yards from him (A monster 4x4 prolly upper 20s wide). When I was standing over him (he was on the other side of a big rock) I remember thinking that I was to close and didn't have control over the situation. When things get tight under 10 yards thing just happen to fast (at least for me) anyway I started to draw leaned forward and before I knew it he was already up the other side of the draw!!! Doing what mule deer do best the bounce. (Yea it cool the first time you see it then its the most frustrating thing on earth especially when They get out of bow range, stop and look back just long enough so you can see every inch of those monster horns) Anyway on the way back to camp (my head hanging real low lol) We saw a doe bedded on a hill close by camp, well I was off. This time I got to 30ish yards and just wiggled the top limb of my bow a little. She stood right up and I double lunged her and she went down fast. That day taught me more about hunting the big eared deer then anything else. I do have to say that standing over that big buck that close was a rush and I can still see those monster velvet antlers sticking above that bolder (and it's a story that's brought up in every camp lol)! But now when I get to a place where I feel good about the shot that's where I stop and shoot whether its 20 or 40 it just has to feel right. :thumbsup:
Spanish Goat, 23 yards, Cust.Kod. T/D, 68#, 23/64" Cedar, 3-bld Snuffer
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In summer 2005 we were shooting bales - still laying around on the harvested grain field. On our way home we just let fly and my brother retrived this together with his arrow:
(http://www.broadheads.de/Bilder/Foren/TradGang/GutShotFieldmouse180yds.jpg)
Gut shot Field Mouse (young and tender specimen), at least 180 yards, Cedar, 125gr field point, Samick Mind 30, 60#
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Hey Guys,
Bear Kodiak Magnum, 50# @ 28"....12 yards on a whitetail.
Lobo in West Virginia
welll this was back when i shot wheelie bows, but does 300 yards count!!!
i was shooting at a stupid little bird in a tree at the back of my parents property and i missed.
but watched my arrow zip out of site.....
on the walk back to the house my friend and i were telling each other horor stories of my arrow hitting a neighbors car or even worse a neighbor!
during super the phone rang and it was my neighbor.my dads responses to the callers questions were...
no, im not sure where he was today.
i stopped eating!
no, im not sure if he was out shooting today....
my heart dropped!
o.k , bring it over and we will check if it matches the other arrows in his quiver!!
ok, now im dead. lol
i had shot into my neighbors house!
thru the roof and into the sons bedroom.
not one of my proudest moments.
BEEN THERE DONE THAT!!!!
NEXT DAY MAMA MADE ME SAY HELLO TO HER OLD FRIEND,
MISTER COPPER COAT HANGER,
I HAD SO MANY WELTS!!
OMG!!!!
I LOOKED LIK A RED AND TAN ZEBRA!!!
EXCEPT MY ARROW SHOT INTO MY NEIGBORS KICHEN.
Javalina, 37 steps, 54 # recurve
Blue lizard, 23 steps, 53 # longbow
Bull frog@ 35yards "long bow" - turkey 45yds "mathews switchback"
35 yards, 54# recurve. 4x4 elk my son called in.
14 years old, 1962, 35# Pearson solid fiberglass, meadowlark at 80 yards, dead center. Sort of like that mouse in the bale, except I was trying to hit this bird.
Hope the statute of limitations has run out! :scared:
135 paces, 78# longbow, redwing blackbird. I was in my father's backyard shooting a new longbow and it was hitting whatever I pointed it at. I looked into the vacant field next door at saw the bird perched in a sumac singing. Focused on the back of it's head drew back raised up and let fly. The fieldpoint on the end of the cedar arrow hit the bird squarely in the back of the head. I paced it out 135 steps or just under 100 yards. I felt bad about killing something and not eating it but the neighbors cat came and got it shortly after I recovered my arrow.
(http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e30/jgilmer/2001caribou.jpg)
This woodland Caribou was killed with a 51 lb Aspen Elite Longbow at 31 paces. I missed him the first time at 12 yards. He ran off to 40 yards and stopped and turned around. As he approached slowly trying to figure out what I was, my guide leaned over my shoulder and whispered in my ear " Aim alittle ier , will ya skipper?" Needless to say after embarrassing miss I picked a spot this time and heart shot the animal.
"old friend mister copper coat hanger" thats hillarious! I believe we have all met him.
Ya know...I have been bowhunting(wheelie) for 16 years and have taken a lot of deer. I cant think of a single deer that was farther than 15 yards. Guess 20 yards(limit) with trad should work ok for me...
Thanks Wud....only took me three days and a few thousand brain cells...lol.
58 steps cottontail rabbit,with 2 buddies as wittnesses.65lb longbow cedar arra & judo.
Ground squirrel at about 40 yards with my Pacific yew longbow, 63 lbs. cedar arrow with a judo point.
Speaking of childhood trick shots, we used to try to shoot swallows off the power lines in front of the house. Occasionally this worked. Once just at dusk there was a bird sitting on the line that powered the house across the street. After a careful stalk I was directly underneath my intended prey. The advantage of shooting straight up is if I missed the arrow came straight down instead of possibly losing it.
At the shot the arrow instead of missing (most of the time), or hitting the bird (occasionally), stuck dead center into the insulated wire. This caused a huge shower of sparks. :scared: Fortunately all the fireworks caused the arrow to fall out of the wire to the ground. I quickly grabbed it an ran into our garage to hide the evidence.
I was never found out but a few days later the power company showed up to fix the wire with the mysterious burn marks on it. ;)