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I know of 3 nice mule deer 4x4 bucks that came out of southern Idaho archery hunts, all with 80+ yard shots.

One guy I don’t know well shot one at over 100 yards (supposedly) and I suspect he just put his 80 yard pin 5 feet over the bucks’s back and let ‘er rip. I have a pic of that buck alive somewhere when I jumped him pheasant hunting near Rupert earlier in the year.

The other two bucks came out of the Owyhees from a hunter I have known for years. I would trust that guy to take a responsible 80 yard shot with a bow way before I’d trust the vast majority of rifle hunters to take a 100 yard shot.

I guess that is my way of saying, I see long range bow hunting just like long range rifle hunting. Some can responsibly do it, and some shouldn’t even have a tag. It is what it is. I am not the one who should decide who is who.

There is NO SUCH THING as a "responsible" 100 yard bow shot at a whitetail. The arrows time of flight is way too long and YOU HAVE NO CONTROL of what the deer does while the arrow is on it's way. Most responsible, experienced bow hunters here will not attempt a shot longer than 40 yards with the fastest of compound bows for that reason.

Glad I am not the only one who has had to do that.

Maybe you should go back a few pages about the can't get closer, unethical shots, LR is just slob hunters ring a bell.
Everybody in " your" camp thats all you wanna compare the whole hunting world too.
Ya gotta be the judge and jury when you don't obviously know [bleep] about LR hunting or shooting

Holy cow dude, did you just glance at my post and make an estrogen fueled reaction? Did you honestly even read it?

You’d be a psychology student’s wet dream. Carry on, I guess but please at least try to see both sides of the issue.

Yeah I read it. NOBODY can responsibly take an 80+ yard shot at a live deer with a bow. I don't care if they can hit a golf ball every time from that far.

Phil Shoemaker 458WM 500 grain RN backing up a hunter on moose at 500ish yards. Leupold 2.5x optic. Dead moose.
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Unnamed average hunters everywhere shooting past 250 yards, miss and wound more often than not. My observations.

The video of the marine who accepted the “every shot between 200 and 600 on gallon jugs” tells the story of the average person really well. Missed 2,3,4 shots and hadn’t gotten past 450 yet using rangefinder, good optics, shooting prone with bipod. I stopped watching there.

The only person who has the opportunity to make the right decision is the guy pulling the trigger.
It’s a free country.
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Nice shot, John.

These type of threads are never not entertaining.........imagine being an outsider looking in at the different view points...........

Should be called LONG RANGE SHOOTING FOR UNQUALIFIED PEOPLE!!

I ordered a MK 4 once for a ELR hunt in south Florida but it didn't pan out.

Hi Dwayne, I trust you had a great Easter long weekend!

Great post, while he was shooting I was wondering how the barrel heated up would effect his shooting. His misses were not drastic and from what I could tell if he was shooting at a moose or an elk, they would have been dead.

Also found it interesting that he shoots a Huskemaw Blue Diamond as I do, when I hunt Elk. He may have been missing the shots he did because he was shooting a Tikka lol.

In any case what I took away from the video is how he set up the targets randomly and at different yardages, great way to practice for real hunting situations. I will be doing the same this summer.

Here is another of his videos on "Cross Canyon" shooting. I am surprised that he was not using a Wind Meter.

Cheers ~

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Shoot the distances you're comfortable at taking, don't exceed your capabilities, and you will do fine. I do not know many people who enjoy wounding gritters. I know a few people that don't care. When that has happened to me, I felt like puking.

If you can take effective shots with a bow @ 80 yards take them, if not, don't. Pretty simple philosophy, one that I follow myself.

For someone who claims to be very much into bow hunting to repeatedly make these asinine claims that no one “responsible” is doing it is downright humorous but talking out of your ass is what you do best.

So Mr Self Proclaimed Bad Ass Bowhunter, have you ever heard the name Levi Morgan or the show Bow Life? If not he’s a multi time national champion archer with his own show Bow Life that is carried on several outdoor networks. On these shows he quite often shoots game animals at 70 yds and several times out to even 100yds. Oh and it’s a western thing? Funny Levi grew up in NC and currently lives in Pennsylvania.

I’m not the best at geography but I’m pretty sure that Penn and NY aren’t real far apart and no one with a brain would call Pennsylvania the west.

Basically anyone who has followed archery at all in the last 20 years knows of Levi. So again your FOS

What I am is a responsible hunter that is damned tired of finding dead and wounded deer in the woods year after year that were poorly hit and not recovered by ass holes taking hail Mary shots because they suck at hunting. I never said I was an avid bow hunter. I haven't "followed archery" and don't much give a damn about this Levi character. I have bow and crossbow hunted for a few seasons and always managed to fill my tags but I'm far from what anybody would call an avid archer.. Some of my friends are avid archers and bow hunters and are very good at it. They won't take risky shots and don't need to because they're good hunters who can put themselves within sure kill range consistently. What they aren't doing is trying to make videos and that saves them from having to edit out bad hits from taking those risky long shots.

You need to head off the the archery forum and whine there about guys who have more skill than you are willing to develop.

As you admit you have no experience with longer range rifle shooting on game so quit your bitchin about that which you know nothing.


Thanks for your attention to this matter.

I used to work with a guy who had his own 500 yard range set up in the field right out his back door. I listened to him brag about what a great shot he was and how he could consistently hit small targets and kill woodchucks at the far end of his hay field/range all the time. He bragged how easy it was for him to kill deer in that field because no matter where they came out he could kill them right from his bench on the back porch. Then deer season came along and with it came the excuses. Said he'd shot at a huge buck that came out at the far end of the field, was sure he'd hit it but looked all day and couldn't find it or any sign he'd even hit it. I said I didn't know what to tell him other than if he'd get off his dead ass and go find one to shoot at 50 yards instead of 500 his chances of losing it would go down and his chances of recovering it up by about 10 times. Kinda like if you'd have been 300 yards from that pronghorn in your video rather than 640, you likely wouldn't have gut shot the fuggin thing. You'll have to pardon me for not being impressed with either of you.

Good evening Blackheart,

At 80 yards with my bow I can hit this 50% of the time, the other shots are really close.



It's all a matter of practice, and FYI, a moose's vitals are WAYYYYYYYYY LARGER

LOL. It’s the “old way” and many of us have, and currently do it. Too easy to lose a spot, and this small effort might make the difference between finding an animal or not. Good standard practice if you have less experienced people with you.