Shot distances
10-27-2002, 10:17 PM
#22
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: arnold missouri USA
Posts: 267
RE: Shot distances
3 bow kills. 1-turkey~20 yards, 1 4pt~25yards, 1 doe~10yards,....I like to hunt in or close to thick stuff, so that really doesn't allow me to get shots more than 30 yards.(This also kinda takes away the temptation of taking a longer and riskier shot)
10-28-2002, 08:50 AM
#23
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location:
Posts: 7,571
RE: Shot distances
My longest was 36 yards at a whitetail. But I won't do it again. My limit is 30 yards. On average, I would say 20 yards. This year, I took two so far both were 27 yard shots quartering away. Both went about 20-30 yards before going down.
10-28-2002, 11:20 AM
#26
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Fredericksburg Virginia USA
Posts: 13,672
RE: Shot distances
Well lets see my longest is 0 yards and my average is 0 yards, of course I have not taken one with a bow yet! I am comfortable out to 25 if every thing is perfect, maybe after I get the monkey off my back and get my first one I would consider a 30 yard shot, but once again it would have to be a deer, broadside and head down.
The Tazman aka Martin Price
Founder and President of
Virginia Disabled Outdoorsmen Club
The Tazman aka Martin Price
Founder and President of
Virginia Disabled Outdoorsmen Club
10-28-2002, 11:51 AM
#27
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Harford Co Maryland USA
Posts: 4,966
RE: Shot distances
My farthest shot was 32 yards, but I try to keep them at 25 yards or less. The two I've killed so far this year were at 18 and 16 yards.
Today's small bucks are tomorrow's trophies.
Today's small bucks are tomorrow's trophies.
10-28-2002, 12:21 PM
#28
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Stockton NJ USA
Posts: 119
RE: Shot distances
Longest shot was just under 25 yards and it only happened once. Average is 5-15 yards. Closeset shot - I could have tackled her.
I've never hunted outside of the New Jersey woods and always hunt from the ground.
I've never hunted outside of the New Jersey woods and always hunt from the ground.
10-28-2002, 01:55 PM
#29
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Sioux Falls SD USA
Posts: 235
RE: Shot distances
Average I'd say just under 20 - say 17 or so.
Longest - 4 days ago I took a Y buck at 43 yards. Shot a perfect X through both lungs AND the heart - that heart shot was the FIRST in 5 years of bowhunting so my 'longest' was also my 'best'.
I shoot 2 inch groups at 40 yards and this shot was a clear passthru - I was quiet happy!
Aim small miss small
Longest - 4 days ago I took a Y buck at 43 yards. Shot a perfect X through both lungs AND the heart - that heart shot was the FIRST in 5 years of bowhunting so my 'longest' was also my 'best'.
I shoot 2 inch groups at 40 yards and this shot was a clear passthru - I was quiet happy!
Aim small miss small