Your longest trad shot on an animal?

[Northwest_Bowhunter]

Ok Red, I have to ask... did you just lob an arrow into the air and when you got it down range, it was pinning a mole to the ground?

[pitbull]

27 yards, it was my first archery buck, a long time ago and I remember it like yesterday. I used a 65# Martin T/D, cedar shafts, and a good old Zwickey Eskimo.

[stevemfwills]

30 yds but like em inside 20

[bornagainbowhunter]

41 yards on a fox is my farthest shot, my closest is 3 yards on a deer, my average shot for deer is about 8-14 yards.  All with a longbow...  Actually, I have never killed anything with a recurve but a lizard, oooh, and that was about 2 feet!!  

One place I hunted, everyday I took a point on shot at a badger mound. One day there was a buck standing by it.  He dressed out at 228 pounds. The longest kill on small game was a pheasant at 80 large for me, (about a yard), paces.

[Stone Knife]

About 30 yards at a rabbit, hit him right in the head    And I like Howard Hill  

[bornagainbowhunter]

I like H Hill myself.  I seen a video where he shot a bear that was running at about 55-60 yards, twice.  He shot the bear and the first arrow barely left his bow and he flung another.  Not too many folks can do that kind of stuff.  Even if you don't like these guys you gotta give them credit for their shooting abilities.

[Pat B.]

Great shot, Biggie !!

My farthest shot was a deer at 53 steps, this was in the late '70's with a mid 50's pound Bear take-down.. Same deal, hit right in the sweet spot, was down in 30 or 40 yards... Little bit of luck there......  No, I wouldn't try it today.

[lpcjon2]

Originally posted by Chris Shelton:
 

Originally posted by Pete McMiller:
Remember what Howard Hill wrote?  'One shouldn't take a shot longer than about 1 yard for every pound of bow weight.'

Never really liked Howard Hill!  I don't know about that statement, and I hope this doesn't blow up in my face.  But if that were the case I can kill a deer at 40 yards with a 40# bow, and shoot 70 yards with my 70# bow???  I don't think so, lol.  This was not a dig at you Mr. McMiller, just Mr Hill.

My furthest shot on big game is 25 yards, that was with a 40# bow.  On small game, my furthest is 30 yards to the tree, and 25 yards up the tree . . . I'm too lazy to do the math, but I think that's like 33 yards or something like that?  That was with a 55# bow.

My rule of thumb is half your bow weight+5=maximum "lethal" distance.  So 40 pounds, divided in half, plus 5 is 25 yards.  That is just my theory.  Not saying you can't kill a deer at 30 yards, or saying you shouldn't.  That is just a rule that I have set for myself. [/b]

That just hurts Chris!    
 But he does have an incredible record of kills!
my max was when I was 13yo a bullfrog at about 40yrds on the side of a hill in a gravel pit.Oh and it took me 9 arrows to do it.Other than that 25yrds max.

[Northwest_Bowhunter]

Pat, that is a really great shot.  I think luck is over rated, I think you were just in the "groove" that time.  It was that deers day to become venison and you had a bow in your hand.

Tim, only 9... that's amazing (ok maybe that was luck).

When I was a kid and wanted to shoot like Robin Hood I didn't know that meant I was shooting like Howard Hill.  Since we didn't have video tape back then I was lucky it was on TV a lot in my formative years (the 60's).  Whew I'm getting old.

[Keith Zimmerman]

30 yards on a whitetail.  All others less.

[Kris]

Last summer I shot a grey squirrel in my front yard at 58 yards and hit it exactly through the eyes (aim small miss small, LOL) with my 62" 57#@28" Silvertip recurve.  Lucky for sure, but I always come very close to them, if I don't hit them.  Psychologically for me, hitting a deer in the lungs would be harder at that distance than nailing a squirrel (although I’ve never tried).  The cooler thing about that shot was that the squirrel was depressed in my drainage ditch behind a mound and just off to the side of an oak tree, so a little needle threading was also required.  At the shot, all I could see was the top of his head and tail…the arrow arced right into him for an instant kill…I couldn’t believe it!

Kris

[MJB]

Bigster,
I like your hunting footwear  

[Al Dean]

35 yds on a deer.  Would take broadside shot out to 40 anytime.

i hear you all saying that it was pure luck , so its pure luck when a pro ball player does what he's been practicing to do for months.   right?     thats why we practice!

[Bill Carlsen]

We have a game feeder about 70 yards from my back door and across our pond. The gray squirrels make tempting targets. My DAS recurve has a point on the way I shoot of 65 or 70 yards...never really paced it off. But If I put the arrow at point on when the squirrels are under the feeder I can sometimes nail one. So far I have 3 in the freezer. On big game my farthest kill was a caribou at a paced off 55 yards. I practiced shooting longer distances before that hunt based on the advise of a friend who had taken several. It paid off.

[Doug Treat]

My longest is 40 yds. on a cow elk.  I was guessing just over 30 but when I paced it off it was right at 40. She only made it about 50 yds. and fell over dead.  My arrow was a home-made barrel-tapered shaft made from square stock ash (made with a hand plane) and it weighed 630 gr. with a Zwickey 2-blade head.  The hand-made shaft made it a memorable shot for me.

[Doug in MN]

32 Yards on a Bull Elk that was looking the otherway, did not seem to be that distance when I took the shot stepped it off and was a bit suprised.

Them GOD foresaken tree RATS one at 72 paces.

[stickbowmaniac]

Blackbird at 40 yards.They kept jumping the string when i would shoot so i decided to aim a little high.Nocked his head of with my Acadian woods recurve.

[Guru]

Furthest big game animal was a Pronghorn at 40+ yds....

Furthest kill period was a pigeon at 67 paces....

One of my best ever was a chipmunk at 32 paces...