dbHunterNY

I agree with others that you have to weigh the deer on a scale. that scale also has to be verified accurate. I use free weight plates to check my Moultie big game scale in the range a deer would be. I've shot two doe the same weekend. one well over 8.5 years old and the other 3.5 yrs old. the older one looked the size of a horse. just a large frame though with not much else. the older one weighed 95lbs dressed and the younger one much smaller in frame weighed 133lbs dressed. bucks change a lot depending on when their harvested in the season (how much fat they've burned off). right around the beginning of gun season anything over 175lbs dressed is a likely to be a nice buck weight wise.

doing it right... probably doesn't need any luck for his bowhunter course. good luck this fall. hope you get him on something.

I haven't shot a deer that far really at all. I can hit it probably much further than I'd get penetration with mechanicals I'm using and 420ish grain arrows. I could probably hit it far enough away that it'd flinch at the shot if at all but probably not feel the need to get out of the way. I have no idea how far I'd shoot but probably a very modest yardage. if putting a 2nd arrow in the deer though it'd be really far, like 80+ with one bow that's sight has something to reference/aim that far.

I agree with your statement. I'd imagine you had a lot of "chip shots" under the stand at 10 yards or less that just hit one lung. also a lot of people probably have no idea where their bows shoot at 5 yards.

not to derail the thread but I love that. they'll lower their head to fool whatever into moving. you notice their in grazing position but aren't actually feeding. from a biology perspective, their eyeball plane of focus shifts when they lower their heads so they can actually see just as well still.

both.... depends on how everything unfolds when the deer comes in. just shot in a championship 3D match. two targets I shot from my knees. two others I shot while sitting on a bench that was facing the targets, while a guy shook the bench, and another guy revved a UTV next to it.

I've unloaded mine to new bowhunters and will be unloading another soon. i'll post some pictures of mine though when I get home tonight.

you all have had it a bit harder with draught conditions then out here in in the east. looks like you got something to work with though. maybe we get some more rain and late frosts. season is fast approaching. youth weekend will be here before you know it too.

you posted a picture of that bow and not its limbs? your doing the bow a disservice ya sand bagger! haha

same here

for a while I did mine almost the same way but wraps were equal in number from tie-in to peep but both on same side. I saw that video and having equal wraps on both sides versus all on one side festered in my head. I broke down and now do it the exact same way he does. haven't noticed any difference but I'm not worrying about it either. couple of my bows the peep isn't straight at rest but comes around to the exact alignment once at full draw. haven't found anyway around it. someday i'll look into if there's actually a fix.

that's happened to me while sighting in firearms.

ALL my sights including hunting sights have 2nd and 3rd axis adjustability. you can do fine without it and many times it means a more expensive bow sight. that said I don't think I've shot a deer with a bow on flat ground in years. aiming up or down an incline or from an elevated stand/blind is more common and can make the bubble level do weird things if off on one axis. if your standing on a side hill, especially with a shorter axle-to-axle hunting bow it's not hard to cant the bow. when holding tight behind the shoulder, a little cant might mean getting a little too close to the shoulder. the opposite could mean a clipped liver only and letting the buck sit over night if not losing it. it's a little thing I have the means of using so I use it.

technically I wear tube socks every day.... under my pants when pressed and dressed for the office. ladies love a man in tub socks.

well said?.... straight out of the Trump handbook for giving everyone else a nickname. No lie, you come across as being obsessed with the man more than those of us who are openly voting for him.

agreed. good video.

nope they catch and release only by the sun bathing dock.

sure.... temporary case of ADHD when there's a nice looking woman sunbathing on a dock nearby. it's ok. we understand.

perch are gooooood. that's a haul. no perch that were keepers last I was out. on a big pond like that.

a little sanctuary can go a long ways. try not to hangout that close and upwind of it too much either.

just hunt smart and don't cut corners on things like scent reduction, wind, and stand access. hunt hard with that stuff and others in mind and you won't be over pressuring him into changing up his routine and going somewhere else. more often than not harmless encounters are made before a big buck gets killed. hunt with reasoning and a plan always, despite more often than not the plan won't go accordingly.

yea if tuned well a bow can group broadheads with field points out way beyond what people shoot. tiny adjustments to the rest and use a pencil or take a picture in between adjustments in case you make things worse or rest shifts too far out of place. when walking back and shooting use the same pin to aim, knowing it'll shoot low as you work back. sometimes sight isn't perfectly aligned so aiming with different pins changes form and/or slight canting of the bow.

went back and looked. some charts had you borderline too stiff and others said you were just right. with a 125gr head weight all of them said you were just right as you said. better to add point weight and FOC to correct being borderline too stiff on a hunting bow. I've tried doing the opposite and never got arrows to fly as well. good to see you figured it out.

that's not bad. hard to say if it can be better without being there.

I'm little behind in the conversation but I think I replied once in another thread. what's your bows IBO rated speed or what's your bow model? It's a Mathews I can tell that.