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Title: How well does shoot through netting work with trad, bows?
Post by: OkKeith on November 05, 2007, 11:44:00 PM

Hey Folks,
I recently bought a spiffy new ground blind with jazzy little "shoot through" netting. I am sure it would be no big deal for compound bows to blast right through this stuff, but has anyone had any experience with shooting through with a recurve or longbow.
Just wondering if anyone had tried it and what the result was.

Thanks ahead of time,
OkKeith

Title: Re: How well does shoot through netting work with trad, bows?
Post by: Tommy D on November 06, 2007, 07:45:00 AM

I've never had a problem with it out of a Double Bull blind, don't know about other brands, but most likely not a problem with them either.

Title: Re: How well does shoot through netting work with trad, bows?
Post by: Scott J. Williams on November 06, 2007, 08:38:00 AM

It is not a problem at all,  I have several commercial blinds. Mike Palmer, makes his own, he and his wife have no problems.

I must admit that I had my reservations until one slow day I shot at a squirrel through the net, the only reasaon I missed was I was so busy trying to see what the arrow was doing as it passed through the netting!

I killed a nice pig shooting through the netting on my Easton Blind.  I don't give it a second thought now.

Title: Re: How well does shoot through netting work with trad, bows?
Post by: aromakr on November 06, 2007, 02:35:00 PM

Keith:
I would have agreed with the two above posts, had I not experienced different results myself. If your bow is center or past center on the shelf the arrow has mimimum paradox, I've not had a problem with that type, however if its a less than center bow it can and has with me deflected the arrow way off target. So in my opinion, results will depend on the type of bow.
Bob

Title: Re: How well does shoot through netting work with trad, bows?
Post by: OkKeith on November 06, 2007, 05:53:00 PM

Thanks for all the help!

I have considered setting it up in the yard and doing some practice, but after I poke holes in it shooting at targets I guess it would be a moot point.

Bob, thanks for your heads-up on non-center shot bows. I will stick to my center-shots in the blind.

Anyone else have anything to add?

OkKeith

Title: Re: How well does shoot through netting work with trad, bows?
Post by: swampbuck on November 06, 2007, 06:08:00 PM

My wife got me one of those easton blinds.It's the big one with the center hubs,anyway I just had to know so I shot at my target thru it admittedly wondering at first.seemed fine so I tried it agian and ended up puttin the arrow thru the first hole.Being the skeptic that I am I shot another and made sure to put another hole in the screen....holes from this point on will go along with the holes in the critter's I get lucky enuff to shoot at thru the screen.

Try it yourself with confidence that it doesn,t matter and when ya nail the bull you'll be extra confident come crunch time and whats one or even 2 hole's for the extra confidence