What distance do you shoot best at?

[sharkhunter]

20 to 25 yrds

[fbchunter]

Great at 20. Practice at 30, occasionally 40 but will never be able to dedicate the time to shoot at 40-100 yards and have good groups. I won’t shoot at a deer over 25 yards

[jshouse]

I took to the school of thought of shooting at "actual" yardage - i.e. most animals are not going to be at exactly 25 yards or 30 yards - so my pins are set for 17-27-37-etc.-etc

that being said - my comfort zone for killing is 27-37

60% of the time, it works every time

[xman59]

i shoot my best at 100-135 yards, i hunt at 10-40,,, makes those shots real easy...... the real long range forces concentration and shot execution, i miss i usually loose an arrow,,, its been 4 years since i missed

[tradslam]

30 and in with the stick, with the compound I'm a .75 ish moa guy if I had to break it down. I shoot to 140 on the range every session.

That said I'm holding the recurve more and more.

[Black Ice]

What distance do you shoot best at?

I am really not a very good shot to begin with. But I shoot better from 25-30 and then 30-35 than I do at 20-25. Then I am better at 50-60 than 40-50. Whats the deal?

Both my Robin Hoods have been at 60. Both were pure luck I would imagine.



I don't shoot traditional, just a wheeled bow.



What is your favorite or perfect yardage? Either with trad or compound?



I set all my bow stands around 30 yards right in my wheel house.



I would say mine is 30 yards.

I can not shoot a bow for years and pick one up and stack arrows at 20 yards. Get me in a tree 15 feet up and I can’t hit the broad side of a barn when shooting at a deer.


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[79F250]

With all my set ups I feed at 20 yards. I personally won't shoot past 30 but that's just me I'm not real comfortable shooting past 30 at a live animal buck fever tends to make me a little shaky. I can 4" groups at 60 on a foam target but with a live animal no telling where I would hit at 60. In pretty sure I have target panic when it comes to shooting a live animal.

[Razorback01]

As many of the others, I try to stay at 20, 30 maximum.

[JES]

I don't think he's talking about what distance you feel comfortable shooting an animal at, but what distance do you shoot best at. For some reason I can stack arrows at 50 yards almost better than I can at 20. 30 and 40 yards are small paper plate size groups. 60 yards is large paper plate.

Good clarification. I like to shoot at 50, it challenges me to improve my form and tweak my tuning. Then it makes shooting at 20 - 30 so much easier.