ogg

while crossbow hunting from a treestand should you aim a little low or aim right on?like at 2o yards aim a inch or 2 low?

Dnk

Aim low but you should practice from the height you intend to shoot from. Then practice some more.

Cossack

You should aim as is indicated by the true horizontal distance to the target, i.e. the distance from the base of the tree you're in to the target. That's the distance that gravity acts on your arrow. It doesn't matter that you're 20 feet up into the tree, if the deer is just 5 yards from the base of the tree it's a 5 yard shot.

ranger56528

I aim where I want the arrow to come out or a little low depending how you look at it,but like said practice from all differant yrds.......

xbowking

I have been told by people that with a crossbow that you aim right at it , then other guys say aim low , what i did is i made up a string from a spool of black braided fishing line (or use whatever ) but run it out and put markers on the line at 20yrds , 30yrds , 40yrds, then roll it back up and take it to your tree stand and go up in the standand tie it off and drop it down then go down and run it out and when you get to the 20 , 30 , 40 markes put a piece of flaging tape on a tree or branch , then you will know the true distance to each yardage . take a small block or target of some sort and take a shot at each yardage , you should be real close.

GrumpyTom

ogg ......... what the answer mostly depends on is how your making your distance measure. If your measuring the distance from the base of the tree, then you aim dirrectly on where you want to hit (POI should be less then 1 inch different, human error is greater then that). You see, since your up higher, the distance will be greater, so it will be in a some what self correcting mode. But if you measure from up in the tree, where your sitting, then you should aim a little low. Shooting downhill or uphill, gravety has less effect on the arrow as it would if you were shooting a flat line of sight so you will be hitting a little high.

Like others have said, practice with your own bow. Different poundage bows will be slightly different in thier POI.

awshucks

I did some experiments on this. I have a few ladder stands that are 12' to where your feet go, so figure about 16' to the xbow. I set a target up at 20 yds from the base of the tree, less than 1" difference in poi from 20 yd bench rest shots [Emax; 330 fps; 431 gr arrow] If you do the Greek [can't spell Pyth....] formula, A squared +B squared=C squared, it comes out the angle [hypotenuse] is 20.69 yds, about 2' of longer range. Where you could have some minor problems is if you get real high in a climber and shoot down or up hill.

sproulman

best is to shoot from stand at 20 yds in yard,i climb on my roof of garage.
i am no expert on crossbow but i cant see difference from shooting where i aim at 20 yds from my garage which is about 12 ft up with crossbow.

with my recurve i ALWAYS aim about 2 inchs up from bottom of my bucks behind shoulder.
if string makes noise and he jumps,i still get him.

that has happened ,oh,about 10 times over years and aiming low got ole mossy horns.

jerseyhunter

Gravity never changes weather uphill side ways or downhill. Gravity is always a constant.

Cossack said it all.

sproulman

your info is same with the RANGEFINDERS.
they have new ones out now that say they are more accurate from tree than the older versions.

what they dont tell you is it ONLY works if you are above 20 ft in tree which most hunters are 12 ft to 16 ft from ground and this new tecnology cost about 200 hundred more than the regular version and is of no use under 20 ft.

you are right on.