yardage and wood bows

[Blacktail]

this is a NO glass subject all wood...what is the max yardage that you would shoot a deer at or even practice at..john

[hedgeapple]

Fifteen yards is my limit if everything is perfect.  I prefer 10 yards or less.  Practicing, I'll shoot out to 30 yards.

[Wylden Freeborne]

Real situation? Live animal 15 yrds. Target....well, that depends on how many wheelie bows are at the range when I get there! I prefer to stay around 20 yrds max at home though, lest I lose any more darned arrows to the vortex that is my blackberry briar!

[rossfactor]

I've been shooting at ten, fifteen, twenty and twenty five yards at home.  Starting to feel really good about the 10 and 15 yardage shots. Twenty and twenty five can be great at times, and unnacceptable other times.  I think I'll be sticking to shots under twenty yards in the field.

To me, my range is the distance that my first in the morning arrow is accurate. And that's 15 yards or so.

Gabe

[lowell]

Out to 15 yards is my feel good distance to shoot at a deer.

  In practice I shoot out to around 30 yards...maybe cause I can see the arch of the arrow better at a longer distance!!

[TRACY]

I like the layups myself when hunting but have effectively shot through heart/lung at 20 + yds . I prefer close 5-15 yds. I shoot a lot of different ranges when practicing on stumps in the woods.


Tracy

[billy]

I think it depends on your own comfort level and how practiced up you are.  Do what feels comfortable for you.  IF you prefer to be 10 yards or less than hold yourself to it.  But you can be pretty darn accurate and deadly at much greater distances.....if you practice and practice right.  I shot a deer at 20 yards and buried the arrow to the feathers several years ago.  I punched a rabbit thru both lungs at 40 yards with my primitive bow and that shot can be seen on my DVD.... but I had been practicing at 30-plus yards for 2 days and felt like I could hit him.  Of course I don't recommend shooting at any game animal that far....but I felt confident I could hit him and I did..

But much more realistic is to stay 20 yards or less. 

[Blacktail]

thanks for the info..i feel much better about my shooting now...john

[crooketarrow]

   I set up all my sites 12 to 15 yards. I can shoot 20 my longest was 18 yards. I pracrice back to 30 ,40 yards some. But keep my real shooting to under 20.

[RabidApache]

I practice out to 50 yds or more. Hunting situation I'm confident to 25-35yds but closer the better.

[killir duck]

25

[turtle]

I practice up to 40. Prefer actual hunting shots 10 to 20. Farthest i eber shot a deer was pushing 25. But i had been shooting a lot every day at that time. Some days when i havnt been able to shoot enough recently i wont shoot past 15 at a live critter.

[Slackbunny]

If conditions were right and the animal presented me with a textbook shot, I'd go out to 25 yards. But that's with a bow that I have been practising with exclusively all summer.

For target practice I've gone out to close to fifty yards for fun, but I'm really playing the trajectory at that point, and I'm lucky if I can get a group within a couple meters. But I normally keep it under thirty yards for regular practice. 

[PEARL DRUMS]

My real life experinece tells me 15-18 yards is more than enough for me and my primitive gear. I can shoot 20-25 in the yard all day, but that means nothing in real hunting situations.

[Pappy]

5 to 15 is what I like and set up for. 
   Pappy