2020 Live from the Stand

Triple C said:
Great shot placement on a brute! Congrats MM! I'm headed out to the farm this afternoon to chase em until Sunday. Wish I could post "Live" but no cell service when I'm sitting in the stand. AT&T coverage at the farm sucks. Son has Verizon and has coverage all over the farm. I have it only at the cabin which is on the highest point of the property with very occasional service from stand but not enough to generally push updates through.
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As far as "shot placement" Over the years I have made an observation, nothing scientific, about shooting deer with a bow: a deer needs to partially get its head up to jump, run, or move sideways. So, if you release your arrow when the deer has it's head down eating, it gives you an extra split second before the deer can get moving and that's enough time for an arrow to travel 20 to 40 yards. After having a few deer jump my arrow years ago, I always try to make my archery shots when a deer is taking a bite of clover or acorns, which has seemed to up my accuracy and success rates.

I had a friend whose daughter missed a deer at 35 yards with a crossbow and he was baffled by her poor shot. I pointed out that the deer was at full alert, and with the crossbow noise the deer could well have made a big jump before the arrow got there, ruining what would have been a perfectly good shot.

The sound of a bow gets to the deer almost three times faster than the arrow.
 
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Mennoniteman said:
As far as "shot placement" Over the years I have made an observation, nothing scientific, about shooting deer with a bow: a deer needs to partially get its head up to jump, run, or move sideways. So, if you release your arrow when the deer has it's head down eating, it gives you an extra split second before the deer can get moving and that's enough time for an arrow to travel 20 to 40 yards. After having a few deer jump my arrow years ago, I always try to make my archery shots when a deer is taking a bite of clover or acorns, which has seemed to up my accuracy and success rates.

I had a friend whose daughter missed a deer at 35 yards with a crossbow and he was baffled by her poor shot. I pointed out that the deer was at full alert, and with the crossbow noise the deer could well have made a big jump before the arrow got there, ruining what would have been a perfectly good shot.

The sound of a bow gets to the deer almost three times faster than the arrow.
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The biggest mystery of bowhunting and the biggest Pandora’s box at the same time, is deer jumping the shot imo. It never makes sense to me. I never shoot at an alert deer and still have had them jump. I’ve done everything I possibly can to quiet the shot and that has helped tremendously. Still, I had a doe jump so much last year when shooting out of a ground blind, that I missed her clean. Addison was filming so I got the privilege of watching in slow motion. I shot a different doe 15 minutes later and used my ten yard pin for the 22 yard shot. I hit her perfect because she too ducked. The calm night and the blind was the culprit in sure.
 
Triple C said:
Great shot placement on a brute! Congrats MM! I'm headed out to the farm this afternoon to chase em until Sunday. Wish I could post "Live" but no cell service when I'm sitting in the stand. AT&T coverage at the farm sucks. Son has Verizon and has coverage all over the farm. I have it only at the cabin which is on the highest point of the property with very occasional service from stand but not enough to generally push updates through.
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My kids have Verizon and I have AT&T and up here at our place we all share the same misery...very poor cell service. I have heard of places that Verizon will work when AT&T won’t but Whitetail Hollow and Most everywhere we went in South Dakota aren’t any of those places...
 
KSQ2 said:
The biggest mystery of bowhunting and the biggest Pandora’s box at the same time, is deer jumping the shot imo. It never makes sense to me. I never shoot at an alert deer and still have had them jump. I’ve done everything I possibly can to quiet the shot and that has helped tremendously. Still, I had a doe jump so much last year when shooting out of a ground blind, that I missed her clean. Addison was filming so I got the privilege of watching in slow motion. I shot a different doe 15 minutes later and used my ten yard pin for the 22 yard shot. I hit her perfect because she too ducked. The calm night and the blind was the culprit in sure.
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Try that trick of shooting right when they reach down to take a bite and let me know what you think. I think that you will be surprised at the results.
 
Mennoniteman said:
Try that trick of shooting right when they reach down to take a bite and let me know what you think. I think that you will be surprised at the results.
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I’ll see about experimenting with that this year maybe. I have had them jump with their head down before; but I’m not sure about them actively feeding.
 
So I had the ten point I was trying to get on the other side of a thicket working a scrape this evening. He started to come out and got spooked by doves coming off the neighbors property. Never had a deer get spooked by birds before.

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Mennoniteman said:
Try that trick of shooting right when they reach down to take a bite and let me know what you think. I think that you will be surprised at the results.
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Some pretty interesting video results on head up vs. head down and jumping the string by Dr. Grant Woods. He won’t even shoot at a deer with it’s head down anymore. Worth watching.


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