Adkhunter1590

Shot my slick tricks today out to 40 yards. Ran out of time to go any farther back. They shot dead on with my field points. Will update when I get time to shoot farther

Ya really. Did you not read that I said I let my bow shop take care of matching what arrow I need to my length and weight. I could care less what the arrow says on the side of it. I pay top dollar at a bow shop for a reason. All I care is that the damn thing shoots straight at everything I aim at.And last I checked I never claimed to be setting up new archers bows for them. That's not my job. That's a bow shops job. But your going to tell me they don't know what they are doing either right?

All my bows are set to 70 pounds. 100 grain broad heads always. Arrows vary all the time. The arrows I have today won't be the arrows I'm shooting in 2 months. I don't pay attention to weight of arrow. I trust my bow shop to suggest the best ones they offer for what I'm doing. And they know exactly how far I shoot. I think people pay attention to specs of their stuff more than they pay attention to shooting them correctly. All my sights are single pins. .010. Last bow had a spot Hogg. This time I got a HHA. Will probably end up going back to spot Hogg over the winter though. We will see about that later on.

I only referenced gun seasons because the guy above was talking about people not being able to hit off hand at 75 yards with a gun. I've seen more bad shooting with guns than bows overall. But I've seen my fair share of bad archers. Honestly other than the outfit I worked for in KS I don't think I'd send anyone to the other states. Especially Illinois. Harpooles heartland lodge in like county. What a waste of time that place is! Pike county used to be great 10-15 years ago. Way over hunted now. MT elk hunts your gonna wanna hit up Royal Tine. They are the ones who ran the guide school I attended. Great people and they also have great lion hunts. If your physically capable I suggest DIY public land hunts. Much more rewarding and cheaper any state you go. I'd give you links to video if I had actually taken any. I'm no movie star so filming isn't exactly the first thing on my mind when I plan on hunting. If you wanna see me in video YouTube 'The Rule TV' Kansas part 3 I believe. It's a hunting show on the sportsmans channel that filmed a show with us in Kansas. Won't see me hunting but I'm standing in front of a van talking about a spot he's about to hunt lol. They shot a 160 incher with us. thats about as much video as I have of me lol. I have been wanting to get a bow mounted go pro though. Would like to film my hunts for sure. Just haven't gotten around to it yet. Someday though. And when I do I will purposely look for a doe to take at 80 plus just for you

KS, CO and MT anytime. IL sucked I'd never waste my time going there again. Depends on what your looking to go for. Whitetail without a doubt Kansas. I've still got good connects in CO to go guided for elk but I would just go public land and guide myself. Kinda silly to pay someone to do what I can do lol. MT would be the same for elk as CO. But I can get a good deal on lion hunts in MT. I don't have the dogs for that so obviously would go guided on that one

Which is exactly why you don't shoot at a walking animal. I still won't take the shot at 35 yards if it's walking. Patience is required at all ranges. That just doesn't go out the window when shooting farther. Plenty of people shooting animals at 800 yards with a rifle. How many steps can they take between the time of shot and hit at that range? I'm sure it's quite a bit. So based on your theory, a rifle also isn't appropriate equipment for that? And yes the man who did my eyes is a miracle worker. He was also the man who brought lasik eye surgery to this country from Columbia where it was first tried (because of strict laws here in the U.S.). He also has the most operations under his belt of anyone in the country. Same guy did tiger woods's eyes. Most all laser eye surgery machines being used today were created by him and his partner who he brought back from Columbia. While in surgery he told me all about how they were practicing on one of their first patients while a bomb blew up the building next door, courtesy of Pablo Esobar. I did tons of research before letting anyone mess with my eyes. Paid a ton of money to have the true expert do it. Now they have laser eye surgery places popping up all over and I hear ads on the radio about free surgery or extremely cheap prices. Makes you wonder who is doing these operations and who would trust someone with their vision to skimp out on paying top dollar for the real deal

And I will also add that of all 3 of my shots over 70 yards I've never missed. Believe or not I could care less. But my antelope in my avatar isn't doubting it. I've missed at 20, 30, 38, 42, 55 and once at 60. Missing happens. Anyone who disagrees is full of it. I'm sure I'm forgetting plenty more misses. I've also wounded 3 deer in my life and never recovered. 2 does and 1 buck. It happens to all of us. Get down off the high horse you road in on.

Of all the comments made to this thread that has got to be the most ignorant and flat out dumbest thing I've ever heard. So your here to tell all of us that a deer taken at 5 yards deserves respect but 60 yards doesn't? Regardless of range any clean kill deserves respect. Idc what your limited to range wise but I respect anyone who can kill a animal with a bow. What I don't respect is someone who basis their respect on how far a animal was taken. That's just total BS. last I checked I've never seen a rule stating what ranges qualifys as a respectable kill. This would be because it doesn't matter. A kill is a kill. Some can do it at only 25. Some can do it at 80. But to say someone doesn't deserve respect based on range is Pathetic.

Kansas. MT. CO. IL. And a bit in WY. Took some buddies out in UT but that wasn't really "paid"

Honestly after 4 guided gun seasons I only met 4-5 guys out of 50 that could actually even shoot a gun well. I had a guy once tell me on the first night at camp that he would tip me real good if I put him on a big buck. Naturally I had a spot hidden away with a big buck that had been untouched except for one archery sit a few weeks earlier. Every good guide always leaves a honey hole tucked away for a big money client. Or for themselves when they get to hunt lol. But anyways, I put this guy in the blind and that buck came out like clock work on the first sit and he misses it 3 damn times at 80 yards with a slug gun with a scope. Pathetic. The guy even had the nerve to give me a extremely small tip at the end of his hunt and said "I would give you a hell of a lot more if you actually got me a deer". I wanted to beat his face in. Regardless of range some people just can't hit the broad side of a barn

Exactly. Thank you. It seems as though people only read and comprehend what they want. The setting at the time of shot dictates everything. If there's a pile of brush in the way and 40 mph winds and driving rain, obviously no one in their right mind would attempt a 85 yard shot. Not anyone with any sort of dedication to the sport of hunting at least. As I'm back east I fully realize my chances of having long shots is severely diminished based on the terrain and landscape I'm hunting. I have 4 stands up now and only 1 of them would allow me a 90 yard shot if I so choose to take one. The rest I'll be lucky to reach as far as 50. And that's all you'll see me take from those stands. Put me back in Wyoming in the grasslands and you can watch me drop another antelope at 88 yards with no second thought about it. And I also never told anyone that they "should" be shooting longer ranges. All I said was its absolutely possible and with enough practice and training anyone here could do it with the right equipment. I just continue commenting because it's ridiculous for anyone to tell people that it's not possible. Nay Sayers will always be such. But they can also enjoy the tag soup

The only thing I've seen is exactly what I expected from the people who've never ventured off the east coast to hunt. I grew up here and live here now so I know the mentality all of you have coming into this discussion because I was the same way 7 years ago. And as you say, "most". Well I'm not most and neither are the people who are capable of making the long shots. I don't argue the fact that MOST people can only shoot 40. But those people also aren't me. They have slung the amount of arrows I have nor do most of them have the training or patience I do. I'm no more or less dedicated than anyone on here to making a clean kill. If there's any doubt in my mind I can't make a good shot I'm not going to take it. I'll take a gut shot whitetail in NY any day over a gut shot elk. Been there done that...repeatedly. I can see the arrow just fine. But I also have over 6 grand worth of lazer eye surgery done to have 20/10 vision in both eyes. It's amazing what modern technology can do for your eye sight! I've tracked hundreds of animals from poor shots by people who had no business even shooting a bow. Tracking a animal is definitely not a problem for me. I spent years as a guide out west. Have you ever tracked a wounded bear through the thickest mountain sides at 11 thousand feet? Shooting, tracking and even just walking out west is 100 times harder than here. It's something to learn to adapt to and with years of practice become pretty damn good at. To me, making the shot is the hardest part. If I put more effort and time into making a good shot then I don't have to worry so much about how long the track is going to be

My wife can go either way on this. One day she doesn't care. Next she's mad at the money and time. I just keep telling her she knew what she signed up for and if she'd like I can take the entire fall off from work and go back to guiding out west. That makes her even more mad lol. But it's the truth...I wanna go back to guiding so bad . Just don't make the kind of money I do at my regular day job

It's not really much of a assumption. More like high probability of truth. I can pretty much garuntee anyone shooting that far has thoroughly slung enough arrows to make it happen in the stand. Unless your just a total jack wagon hail marrying arrows around the woods and if that's the case you don't deserve to be hunting. Anytime you release an arrow no matter the range there's a huge risk of missing or wounding. If hunting was such a sure thing no one would be doing it because it would be no different than just going to the store to buy your meat. That's why they say "it's called hunting, not killing".

Practice more then and maybe you will. Anyone who's capable of shooting those ranges has shot more arrows than you in 2 months than you have in 4 years. It's all about practice. Would you expect to go out and win the Daytona 500 next weekend just because you know how to drive a car?

I saw that too. But my tags from last year that I just tossed in the trash I'm pretty sure said expired 8-31. I wonder if that last sentence was in reference to last September?

http://www.archerytalk.com/vb/showthread.php?t=2921290 While scrolling through the archery talk I came across this thread. First thing you'll notice is the guys awesome bull he harvested. Congrats to him for that. But upon reading his post I read how he shot it at 71 yards. After 5 pages of responses not ONE person mocked, questioned, doubted or bashed him for making such a long shot. Many congratulate him on his great marksmanship. Just funny to see the difference in responses compared to this forum. I'm sure it's because this is NY based so like I've said before, longer range shots just aren't a common thing here, but they are out west. Just figured this was ironically good timed proof

Bow hunting is open in NZ on the 27th but you gotta use this years tag. So your good to go as long as your using the correct tag

Just checked DEC's website. It says they changed the license year to expire on August 31st. Therefore your last year tags should be expired by now. Therefore you can't use them. Posting a screen shot from DEC's site

Pretty sure this is wrong. They changed things up this year. That used to be the way but as far as I've been told by like 10 different people that's not the case anymore.

Not sure how a statement turns into mocking myself but I'll leave it up to you to grab a dictionary and enlighten us all. A TV show for what thousands of others do on a regular basis? Seems like a boring show. Never did I say the ONLY shots I take are 80-100. I told you my 3 longest. 90 was my farthest and a clean kill. Would attempt 100 if conditions are right. And since when did 100 yards become an "extreme" distance? If I told you 200 yards that would be once thing but 100 is hardly extreme. Ya wind can absolutely throw an arrow all around. But if you actually read what I wrote before you'd see how I mentioned shooting those ranges with NO wind. I wouldn't attempt a long shot if I had swirly wind or even big random gusts. I'm not gonna shoot over 50 in much wind at all. And like I also said before...I've been practicing to 100 for 6 years. In those 6 years I've taken 3 shots over 80. So as you can see, the weather conditions and terrain don't make it a habit of giving me much opportunity of even taking the shots. 3 times in 6 years is hardly regular

I'm pretty sure you have to use this years tags as far as I understood it

Some will never believe man. Check the thread about 5 days till season. You'll see plenty mocking me for stating 100 yards is easily possible.

I switched about 6 years ago to a single pin and won't go back. Had the same concerns about changing yardage while getting ready to take a shot at a animal. But you kinda adapt to it and before you know it, it becomes second nature and really doesn't bother me anymore. I usually don't ever hunt with a range finder when I'm in a tree so I'm going off visually judging yardage. If I'm hunting a stand I sit a lot I will tie a couple small yardage tapes around me at various ranges to help out. This cuts down on wasting time with a range finder. If your shots are mostly 30 yards or less like you said you can go ahead and just set your bow to 20 yards and not move it at all. I'm sure your bow is just like most new bows and don't change much from 20-30 yards. I'm like a inch low at 30 with my sight set on 20. Not a big enough change for me to even bother moving the sight. Wherever your stands are just see what your most common ranges are that you have a shot at and set your pin in the middle. Like my one stand I have a lot of good shots at 30-45 that will be my mostly likely areas to shoot going by the deer trails in the area. I will set my pin for 35 and aim just a hair high or low depending on where they are between 30-45. Once you get used to moving the sight around you will get much faster at doing it also. The better sight vision you get from a single pin is worth it alone in my opinion. Not to mention the better grouping you'll prolly get. I haven't met anyone yet that groups better with a multi pin vs a single pin. I haven't tried the brand sight you are talking about but I've had a spot Hogg single that was great but a little on the heavy side and real pricey. And now I have a HHA optimizer lite which is small in size and light weight which goes along great with my carbon knight. HHA makes some great sights and super easy to sight in. It's definitely a brand you should also take a look at. When I mentioned single pin to my local bow shop owner, He didn't even let me finish my sentence before blurting out HHA and handed me one off the shelf behind him. I think you'll be very impressed with the difference in a single! Good luck let us know what you end up with!

I've done a lot to get ready for this season. A lot more than last year that's for sure. But what I've done the most of is piss my wife off on how much I've spent on new gear! Lol. New bow and accessories for that, 2 new cameras, new hang on and sticks, needed new rubber boots after my under armour ones fell apart last time I went and hung a stand. Other than buying a lot of new gear I've walked lots of miles of state land looking for a good spot to harvest a state land giant. It's become a addiction