Originally posted by frank the hunter:
hi everyone i am going on my first elk hunt.wood you take a 30 yard shoot with a 50 pound long bow. i shoot out to 30 yard will, but dont no if it wii kill that far.i am new to trad started about 7 mounts ago. i took a doe at about 25 yards this past hunting season. thank you guys & have a great day.
He's not in the woods, his Arrow is not nocked, he is not a full draw, there is no elk standing in front of him.
He asked if you would take a 30 yd. shot with a 50 lb. bow. That's all, he did not clarify if it was the elk was broadsided, if it was quartering away, if it was a downward shot, if the elk was laying down. Just would you take a 30 yd. shot with a 50 lb. bow. I don't think anyone answered that question !
And since it's a political year, the music was playing and the feet were moving. But no one answered the question.
I would have to say yes, if I was capable, and confident, and efficient with a 50 lb. bow. Yes I would take the shot, provided the animal was not looking at me, and was distracted, most of all relaxed.
Would I take any shots closer than 30 yd., he asked, most definitely, but the question was would it kill at 30 yd., no one expounded on the position of the elk, when I read that thread they gave me the impression that 50 lbs. was definitely a very limited, minimal, poundage for elk hunting, I disagree, I would hunt elk was a 50 lb. bow.
No one mentioned the skills of the man, because he did not expound upon his talent. Don't get me wrong Mark, I understand your commitment, I understand your passion for hunting properly, ethically, I am not challenging that at all. I admire that you stand up for what you believe is right. I was just trying to get a point across that we do not know anything else about him and his skills until he told us.
I'll help you understand more on were I am coming from;
I have a box in the corner my office I brought home last night. because at the bow shop, we received a shipment in, of compound bows, I brought the box home, it's for a Black Ice Bowtech compound bow I purchased last year.
I brought it home to box it up, so that I do not have "crutch" to fall back onto when I start shooting my new "whip" because I can't stand failure, I passed on 7 deer this year, one was a beautiful chocolate buck, 6 pointer, I would have loved to take him, but the rules did not allow me, I was hunting on somebody else's land, I know how to follow rules, I know how to follow my heart, and there is consequences when you follow the rules, or when you break them, you live with those choices for the rest your life, because they stick in your mind one way or another, either to haunt you, or to bless you the rest your days. And that is what traditional archery is about.
Rules and regulations that a man sets in his heart, not from others, not from a book, not from the best video out there. If the man can't make those choices in his heart, he dare not step into the woods. I have people that will hunt with me, because they know that when it comes down to the point of taking a shot, they can trust that I will make a good one, or I won't make one at all. I guess what I'm trying to tell you is I understand your commitment. I was just trying to get others to see the whole thing from his side. It's what I do for living, some people think it's a bad habit, some people think it's good. Those that think it's a bad habit, will think again when they find out their decision was wrong.
But then it will last for eternity. Not just a moment on a thread.
I'm sorry if I offended you, I would rather stand up next to a man that knows his heart, then one that is just along for the ride.
Pastor Carl
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