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Re: How far are you willing to shoot..... [Re: Hoytman] #403193 08/12/08 01:55 PM
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Bow - under 40 yards
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Re: How far are you willing to shoot..... [Re: Hoytman] #403194 08/12/08 06:05 PM
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Re: How far are you willing to shoot..... [Re: Rwuensch] #403195 08/12/08 07:14 PM
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Bow 40 yards on deer and hogs who cares how far they are.
I am trying to quit rifle hunting but if I do rifle hunt 200 yards.


Re: How far are you willing to shoot..... [Re: klepdo] #403196 08/12/08 07:45 PM
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Gun: Very confident at 300, but would try out to 400 with very little wind.

Bow: Never shot a deer with one, but target shoot out to 40 yards no problem.



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Re: How far are you willing to shoot..... [Re: Hoytman] #403197 08/12/08 08:20 PM
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I don't care if it's even in the same zip code I will shot at it and kill it


Re: How far are you willing to shoot..... [Re: patoselsupremo] #403198 08/12/08 08:59 PM
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No more than 900 yards with my 300 ultra mag or it might be pushing it a bit.

I can hit a hay bale at 100 yards with my bow, so I would have to say 85 yards or so. It would have to be a real bruiser though.


Re: How far are you willing to shoot..... [Re: Greg] #403199 08/12/08 09:01 PM
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No more than 900 yards with my 300 ultra mag or it might be pushing it a bit.

I can hit a hay bale at 100 yards with my bow, so I would have to say 85 yards or so. It would have to be a real bruiser though.




and the ethics espy goes to Greg I think I may have got him in the leg


Re: How far are you willing to shoot..... [Re: Brother in-law] #403200 08/12/08 09:08 PM
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GUN ... IT REALLY DEPENDS ON WHAT KIND OF REST I HAVE AND HOW STEADY I AM AT THE TIME... ON AN AVERAGE DAY WITH A GOOD REST 200 YDS ALSO KINDA DEPENDS ON WHICH GUN I'M SHOOTING AND HOW I DID WITH IT AT THE RANGE.

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Re: How far are you willing to shoot..... [Re: RICK O'SHAY] #403201 08/13/08 01:29 AM
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Never hunted with a bow, but had a blast one winter hunting cottontails with a S&W M60 2" 38Spl snubby with most successful shots taken under 20-25 yards on running rabbits.

With a rifle there is a lot of varibles...caliber, weather/wind , scope terrain & back stops. Used to be decent off hand with a 270 offhand out to about 150+ yards, seated in a box blind with a 270/300WMg and a decent rest with low winds prolly good to 3-350---mebbe 400 yards. Killed a pronghorn in Wyoming at about 445 with a 257Rbts & 2x7 Leo using the hood of a Bronco to support my elbow...but missed bigtime on a whole herd of Aoudad in West Texas with a 270 starting at about 250/300 when we spotted each other at the same time to God knows how far. the landowner had told us to knock'em ALL down ...rams, ewes and kids and I don't think I ever parted any hair. I was shooting offhand down a canyon wall ther were climbing up...only I had bigtime handicap ...with my britches down around my knees watering the landscape and airing out sweaty laundry from the hard verticle climb from the canyon floor of about 7-800 ft & couldn't move except to shuffle a little. Great view only tosee them dotz movin down there turn into critters in front of me that could (and did) scratch their butts with their horns on a couple of them as they scrambled to keep their footing on the knife thin spine of rocky trail climbing over each other and haul azz LOL! Lost my advantage of surprise laughing out loud at them until I remembered what I was there for.
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Re: How far are you willing to shoot..... [Re: krs_2007] #403202 08/13/08 02:28 AM
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Bow - under 40 yards
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Same here for deer. For hog, I'll reach out a little longer on both.



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Re: How far are you willing to shoot..... [Re: Hoytman] #403203 08/13/08 02:52 AM
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Re: How far are you willing to shoot..... [Re: OFBHWG] #403204 08/13/08 03:07 AM
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Re: How far are you willing to shoot..... [Re: HuntingTexas] #403205 08/13/08 05:26 AM
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I'm with the guys that say the wind is a bigger unknown variable than yardage. Just because the wind is blowing 5 mph where your standing it may be funneling down that swell your shooting across. I shot a prairie dog once at a measured 1217 yards ( 2nd shot). I had the equipment to make the shot, and practiced long range alot back then. I used to say if I could see it I could shoot it.So

Gun 500 yards
Bow- any range your not a real bowhunter if you dont wound a couple a deer per year.


Re: How far are you willing to shoot..... [Re: bayourat] #403206 08/13/08 10:46 AM
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Probably about 300 yards with a gun. maybe a little longer if it was a still shot, had time to figure out bullet drop, windage, sold rest..etc. But I have passed several times at 400 yards expecially with an elevation angle too.


Re: How far are you willing to shoot..... [Re: Hoytman] #403207 08/13/08 03:06 PM
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Re: How far are you willing to shoot..... [Re: Beman Deamon] #403208 08/13/08 03:58 PM
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anything under 70 with bow under 50 with gun ,,,lol ,,,better shot with a bow


Re: How far are you willing to shoot..... [Re: Hoytman] #403209 08/13/08 11:04 PM
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Re: How far are you willing to shoot..... [Re: TxCazador] #403210 08/14/08 01:10 PM
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Re: How far are you willing to shoot..... [Re: patoselsupremo] #403211 08/14/08 01:43 PM
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Welcome to THF, patoselsupremo, where the BS piles up so high it's irrelevent if it's in the same zip code, too...


Re: How far are you willing to shoot..... [Re: Hoytman] #403212 08/15/08 10:23 AM
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Re: How far are you willing to shoot..... [Re: Dave Davidson] #403213 08/15/08 01:15 PM
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Re: How far are you willing to shoot..... [Re: Curtis] #403214 08/15/08 07:23 PM
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Re: How far are you willing to shoot..... [Re: Hoytman] #403215 08/16/08 03:06 AM
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Bow 35yards don't matter at what animal. It's all im comfortable with.
Deer- 200yds.
Pigs and coyotes can't be to far away if you can see em you can shoot.


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