Trad Gang

I am curious how far the average trag ganger can shoot.

So if i set up a 12 inch target and gave you 10 arrows, how far away could you hit the target 5 times?

60/70 yards

50 yards on a calm day

25 yards

I could shoot at least 100 yrds. To hit a pie plate size object fairly consistent?  25 yds.

I hate to brag but uh about 15 yards   :archer2:

Oh Soy, you always think your the best!   :biglaugh:

Hey the closer the better! Until they get too close    :bigsmyl:

25-30 yards on average, and could probably do better than 50%. I shoot out to 40 a lot.

45-50

30 on a good day

25 yards pretty consistent 30 about half the time.

40 -50 yards.

50-60yds

20-25

I practice at 20 and in so for hunting purposes 20 yards.  Although at an elk camp one day we were practicing and as things go we got a bit competitive.  I was the only one without a compound and the only one to hit the pie plate at 70 yards.  Probably pure luck but it was fun... Could not go any further since my arrows would have been hitting overhead limbs  :)

25 yards, a little farther on a good day.    On a bad day......3 feet! Lol

At paper, I'd say about 50 yards (50%) but that's not good enough for me in the hunting world.

I like to set up where my platform is about 16' high and my shots are 12-18 yards.  I'd shoot 25 yards at a calm deer no problem.

as far as the bow will send the arrow.  I do that all the time.  When I am feeling cocky, I add in little things like bouncing the arrow off a tree, or a board.  I like trying to shoot between trees and branches that are way out there too.  Lotsa fun.  

Now. . .  the hitting what I am aiming at part ?  Hmmm . .  no comment.

ChuckC

Pretty sure it would be around 30 yards.

12 inch target is a welcoming size.....just for the sake of fun,  I'd put 5 anyways into that at 60.  The first one would most likely be my "feeler"   :biglaugh:

30 or so.  Working on form/equipment to get better (first board bow might have something to do with it.

The differance between an archer(target shooter) and a bow hunter is, an archer always wants to see how far away they can shoot(further distance the better) and a bow hunter wants to see how close he/she can get before the shot( the closer the better) 25yrds and under very deadly

30yrds tops

40 yards in my point of aim and 12" is a pretty big target (my usual is about 9") so I would guess 40 yards.  Half that for a good show on a critter though.

Good day or bad day? Good day, maybe 25 yards(for 50 percent shooting) but the first shot would hit it at 35-40 on a good day. Bad day? 12 yards. Either way I want the animals in close before I shoot.

I'd have to agree with most everyone else. Probably around 30 yards.

I'm pretty sure I could hit 5 out of 10 fairly regularly at 15 to 18 steps if I really concentrated.

I do most of my practicing at about 30 to 25..but can't see good enough anymore to hit 5 out of 10 at that distance. Makes my regular shots look easy though.

Wow some of you must be incredible shots. So many of you said 40 some 50,60,70... I am truly impressed tradgang ers!
  :clapper:  
I'd feel pretty confident at 30 yards that I'd hit it 5 of 10 arrows. Maybe a couple more. But 35 yds. Not so much..
Now I'm jealous

Considering I shot a life size elk target in the foot at 40 yards, I' stick to 20/25  

On a good day 30, on a bad day 5.

I pratice out to 80 yards will try further. Im pretty good at 80 but my effective range 40 or under.

30 yards, 10/10 at eighteen yards that seems to be my wheel house

25yards on a good day

I killed a woodchuck at 162 yards, back when I was a kid in the 1970's. (pure dumb luck!!! with alot of practice thrown in,LOL)

Money was tight, and my family used to camp in my Gandpa's woodlot on his farm for 2-3 weeks every year. Kinda like a "summer vacation". A woodchuck had a hole, out in the middle of a fresh mown hayfield next to the woodlot. I spent the better part of a week, picking out weeds,rocks,etc. as "aiming points" to walk my arrows out to the mound where his hole was. My thinking was... When my Grandpa,our one of my cousins came down to visit,and old Mr. Whistlepig was out, I'd tell them I was going to shoot that woodchuck with my bow. Wel there would be the usual comments of doubt & dis belief... (putting it nicely,LMAO) Then, I would draw my bow,and take my shot... They would be so AMAZED, that I came SO CLOSE, the "buzz" would last for days!!!!!

Well, My cousin Patrick came down, and commented that there was a chuck out in the field, and he should have bought his gun. Well, I told him... I'll just go shoot it with my bow! His exact words were, "Your bow??? You couldn't hit him with a .22!!!!!

My plan was starting to take shape... I drew my bow, and picked my "spot"..... I loosed my arrow,and watched it's flight. Like a lightning bolt frow the sky... It hit the woodchuck in the back of the neck, pinning him to the ground!!!!! It was all over but the wiggling.....

I honestly do not know who was more suprized!!! My cousin, or I!!!!!

Given enough time, and practice, and the oportunity to shoot long distances. I think most shooters here, could make some VERY long shots!!!!!

I'm guessing that's where the "handle" came from woodchucker? I'm also guessing that it was the woodchuck who was most surprised   ;)   Anyway, to answer the original question, I'd say 20-25. Maybe farther, but I rarely if ever practice beyond that, so it's hard to say for sure.

40 yards,beyond that is a struggle for me      :banghead:

40-50...which is why I keep my hunting shots 25 yards and in.....I like 12-15 even better...

id say 40 yds, I shoot to 60 but not really good out that far.

30 is okay, I certainly wouldn't try and hit something alive past there.

50-60...inches

WOW got to agree with the "some of you are great shots" Give me 15 yards !!  :archer2:

the was I was shooting last week, about 50 - 60 - inches  -  if it were calm and I were careful!

20 yards.

Right now (working on it). I could do 3-5 at 30 and 2-3 at 40. I have no idea beyond that.

All my practice 30-40 yards is to make 20 a gimmee although I always set-up when hunting for 15.

I figure I could get all 10 arrows in a 12" target at 80- 100 yards.
I didn't see anything that said I could only shoot each arrow once!!!  :biglaugh:

Last years deer was 4 .5 yards so I guess at least that far.

I'm guessing 20 yards on a good day. I'm deadly inside 10! The hard part is getting game to cooperate.

12" pie plate, 5 out of 10? 40 to 45.

8 or 9 out of 10?  30 to 32 yards.

Well...I've successfully missed just about every distance.  Does that count?     :biglaugh:    :biglaugh:

When lived out in the country, I spent a great deal of time shooting from point on to just a bit under and over point on.  My point on with that Schulz longbow was over 60 yards, depending on which arrows I was shooting.  I shot one deer at that range that happened to be standing by a badger dig that I had shot at many times across a pond.  The buck was just stairing at the sun and paying no attention to anything. I simply reacted and shot.  The Wasp broadhead, hit just right. It lost one blade in the hide on entry, one on the edge of rib and part of the third probably on a rib as well. What was left of it went through the buck's heart. The buck made two jumps looked back at me and dropped.  Now thirty plus years later, my wheel house range is 25 yards and under.  If I shoot a deer that is beyond that, it would be because I misjudged the distance. My longest shot that I took game was about 80 yards at a pheasant. It was way past point on, just got lucky.

Depends on the day and the bow....Some days I can barely keep a 9" group at 20 yds and other days can stack them in at 50...who knows...I did hit a dip can and a squirrel target in two consecutive called shots at roughly 40yds while camping awhile back though...must have been one of the "good" days  :)

Most days 5 out of 10 arrows I could do at 50-60 yds, especially with a little practice before hand.

From 18-20 I'm at about 85% in a 4 inch circle. From 22-25 I'm about 70%. From 26-30 I'm 50% at best.

4 yds    :thumbsup:

35-40 yards I could get at least 5 of them in the plate with the others on the outskirts and one flyer Haha.

I shot at a buck in I believe '05 that was at the 30 yard range and hit it in the guts. Found him three days later. I could have hit the plate 5 times back then at 30. I think I am a better shot these days but that's just too far for me still on a critter. That plate doesn't move and the critter just might.

Then in '07 I killed a buck that was 32 steps from my tree. A perfect hit, but I was so worried about it the whole time I wouldn't do that again. I am not a very good shot. I have some buddies that 30 yards is a chip shot for them and the guys out West welcome a shot like that.

Practicing on long shot is fun and beneficial but don't take that to the woods unless you can hit the plate 10 out of 12 times.

You know I did a test one time, I called it my effective shooting range. I would use a pie plate and shoot 5 arrows, and the cut off would be when I couldn't hit 5 out of 5 or say 100%.
30 yds was five out five 35 I would always drop one arrow out of the plate.
I wouldn't consider my score or range if I was only hitting 50%, an animal deserves better than this.
I don't by any means, mean disrespect by this but it sounds like there is some outstanding shooters posted on this thread...not too long ago I was at a traditional show not mentioning where but they had off to the side a line of maybe 7 to 8 3d targets of deer no more than 10 yds  where folks were trying bows. I wish I would of recorded the hits and miss percentages, but I was amazed of the amount of shooters and arrows outside the kill at 10 yds.
Have a Blessed Day
George