HUGE PROBLEM-shooting from tree stand????

[Wolfie2nd]

Originally posted by lpcjon2:
Don't think just Shoot!!!!!!!!!

No offence but that's bad advice. When you don't think and make a bad shot it makes us as hunters look bad

[mahantango]

I think it's the perception that the deer is farther away than it actually is that causes folks to aim high. The higher you are, the more pronounced the effect. Remember, gravity only acts on your arrow over the horizontal distance, so your actual range is from the base of your tree to your target, regardless of elevation.

[lpcjon2]

Originally posted by Wolfie2nd:
 

Originally posted by lpcjon2:
Don't think just Shoot!!!!!!!!!

No offence but that's bad advice. When you don't think and make a bad shot it makes us as hunters look bad [/b]

If you over think it, you will not hit it! Find the spot and shoot!its not bad advice,if you have confidence in the way you shoot and your own abilities.If you constantly are thinking about shooting over the deer then chances are you will. It's all in the mind set,have confidence in you and your set up!    And I never take offense to anything Life is to short for that  

[Wolfie2nd]

Sorry I miss understood you

[Cane Knife]

I aim at the armpit on pigs.  That usu. works from 10 to 20 yds. for the higher arrow hit from a stand.

[lpcjon2]

Originally posted by Wolfie2nd:
Sorry I miss understood you

No worries I should have explained it better.  

[rraming]

I always take a shot from my stand as soon as possible, bring a practice arrow and let one fly. The only time I'd be way off is if I had a deep drop off next to stand causing my elevation to be extreme, I don't usually set up on those locations any more for that reason.

[acadian archer]

draw horizontally  to anvhor , hold , bend to point and let her rip

[S.C. Hunter]

I cant the bow to virtually horizontal. I actually shoot well from on high. when I miss at ground level it is almost always high.

This reminds me, I forgot to pick up my practice arrows that I shot from my tree stand last night.  Oh yes, just roll the bow over bend with the shot, it should be no more difficult than shooting from the ground that way.

[Hookeye]

Shooting high could be......

Misjudging the distance (no forshortening effect as when shooting from the ground- you "see more" so you think more distance).

Deer get thinner in view, as you get above them. Lots of people think external only too.
Aiming points relative to general body shape/size from horizontal-like "halfway up" will shift you considerably when you are elevated and shooting at the halfway mark from your new view. Aim for the baseball inside the animal and shift aiming point to nail it.

Not bending at the waist-screws up followthrough, changes finger pressures.

And.........deer can move.


Probably one of the causes listed.

I shoot the same from ground or elevated, pins and wheels or instinctive, if I judge the distance correctly.

Lots of bad info out there, but to simplify......just shoot it for the horizontal leg of your triangle.

Doesn't matter uphill or downhill. Gravity only affects you over your horizontal component.

For a detailed explanation of line of sight and line of departure, true drop, and how gravity is working.........a Lyman reloading manual should have a pic worth a thousand words (but read the few they give as it helps explain the diagram).

Cheers.

[Jack Whitmire Jr]

Los of good advice above , but above all keep a hair picked out and never take your eye off it and cant your bow when the deer are close.

Now you have the optical part to deal with , try this little experment .

1) Take a 3d target and put it 10 yards from a tree stand 15-20 feet up a tree .

2) Put a orange sticker the size of a quarter half way up the deer  in the middle of the kill zone.

4) climb the tree with safety belt on

5) HA you can't even see the orange dot can you    

6) now do you see why you shoot high ?

7) You think you are shooting at the heart  but are actually shooting at half way up the deer !


CURE IT ALL BY PICKING  WHERE YOU WANT THE ARROW TO EXIT!

I read about this 25 years ago by Smiling Chuck Adams - yes it was good advice .