elevated shots
08-20-2008, 03:18 PM
#11
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Southwest Ohio
Posts: 2,849
RE: elevated shots
ORIGINAL: DropTine249
That stuff is BS in my personal experience and opinion.
I hardly ever range objects from my stand. I NEVER range from the ground. I just range the deer before I shoot.
If my rangefinder reads 40yards, I hold my 40yard pin dead on where I want my arrow to hit.
That stuff is BS in my personal experience and opinion.
I hardly ever range objects from my stand. I NEVER range from the ground. I just range the deer before I shoot.
If my rangefinder reads 40yards, I hold my 40yard pin dead on where I want my arrow to hit.
I also think that it is good to have reference points of known distances so you don't have to go through the exercise of ranging every deer. Doing that can be a real problem if it is a buck on the move.
08-20-2008, 03:21 PM
#12
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Nov 2004
Posts: 5,425
RE: elevated shots
The reason archers shoot over deer is because they don't use good form...
You must bend at the waist and feel the bow string with your nose (bend your neck as well)...If you don't bend your neck then you raise the rear sight and you will shoot high...Just like when shooting a 12 gauge at a turkey and you look up to see if you hit him...
Now...You can't just go get on a roof and practice...Suit up, get in your stand with your harness and practice...This also teaches you where to position your harness so that it doesn't get in your way...
I'd bet that I shoot just about the slowest compound bow on this forum, the angle doesn't bother me one bit, it ain't the speed, it's the form...
You must bend at the waist and feel the bow string with your nose (bend your neck as well)...If you don't bend your neck then you raise the rear sight and you will shoot high...Just like when shooting a 12 gauge at a turkey and you look up to see if you hit him...
Now...You can't just go get on a roof and practice...Suit up, get in your stand with your harness and practice...This also teaches you where to position your harness so that it doesn't get in your way...
I'd bet that I shoot just about the slowest compound bow on this forum, the angle doesn't bother me one bit, it ain't the speed, it's the form...
08-20-2008, 03:34 PM
#14
Fork Horn
Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 298
RE: elevated shots
ORIGINAL: DropTine249
That stuff is BS in my personal experience and opinion.
I hardly ever range objects from my stand. I NEVER range from the ground. I just range the deer before I shoot.
If my rangefinder reads 40yards, I hold my 40yard pin dead on where I want my arrow to hit.
That stuff is BS in my personal experience and opinion.
I hardly ever range objects from my stand. I NEVER range from the ground. I just range the deer before I shoot.
If my rangefinder reads 40yards, I hold my 40yard pin dead on where I want my arrow to hit.
08-20-2008, 07:13 PM
#19
Typical Buck
Thread Starter
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: minneapolis mn.
Posts: 588
RE: elevated shots
ORIGINAL: nchawkeye
Correct...And...Now you are a better hunter because of what you read here!!!
ORIGINAL: JESUS loves archers
So it sounds to me like there`s no differance at all in MN. hunting scinarios
So it sounds to me like there`s no differance at all in MN. hunting scinarios
08-20-2008, 08:41 PM
#20
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: HENDERSON KY USA
Posts: 6,634
RE: elevated shots
ORIGINAL: DropTine249
That stuff is BS in my personal experience and opinion.
I hardly ever range objects from my stand. I NEVER range from the ground. I just range the deer before I shoot.
If my rangefinder reads 40yards, I hold my 40yard pin dead on where I want my arrow to hit.
That stuff is BS in my personal experience and opinion.
I hardly ever range objects from my stand. I NEVER range from the ground. I just range the deer before I shoot.
If my rangefinder reads 40yards, I hold my 40yard pin dead on where I want my arrow to hit.
BUT,if you are in a stand on the side of a hill that is 40 feet high+ the stand height,then you might not want to shoot for what the rangfinder says,you will most likely miss.
So,it isn't bs,it is misrepresented at times and greatly misunderstood,but not bs.
