Your longest trad shot on an animal?

[longbowman]

Remember this was back when we really didn't know any better.  My first deer was taken at 45 yds. My second deer was walking across a field and I made the 75 yd. shot just like I was supposed to.  A mulie buck at 47 yds. and with those figured in to my average kill distance I still average 17 yds.  Heck, until a few yrs. ago my longest bow shot was further than my longest rifle shot!

[joevan125]

I took up trad archery last year and the first shot i took was at a rabbit that i thought was around 35-40yds. Turn out he was 50yds away and i shot right over his back.

From that point on i carry a range finder and try to keep my shots under 25yds. Killed a nice 8 pointer last fall at 25yds walking but hit him a little farther back. Had to follow up with another shot 4 hours later but i did get him.

My next deer was a 15 yd shot and i shot nearly straight down on her and broke her spine. Got a lung so no follow up shot.

[wapiti792]

Killed a doe last year at 30. I knew the yardage, shot at a calm animal, and the shot felt right. That is my limit. My shooting goes to crap at anything over 30. I shoot gap and that is dead on for me.

[Don Stokes]

Elk, 55. Deer, 35. Cottontail, 55.

If it feels good, shoot it!

[twitchstick]

I once shoot a grouse at 60 paces as for big game with trad gear around 30 yrds.

[kbetts]

25 yard walking turkey through the base of the neck.  Do they ever really stay still?

[Cory Mattson]

Zebra 40 - Moose 45 - one whitetail 38 - all before I got good at estimating distance - I was "stunned" each time. Not sure if I would have shot had I known - but glad I did!
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[BobCo 1965]

I didn't know how this thread was going to go so I didn't want to be the first to post.

I shot a goose at 75 yards (on the ground) when I was 14 (OK, I'm 45 now). Some of my friends that witnissed it, still bring it up from time to time, calling it an incredible shot. However, I can't say that it is something that I am proud of doing. Haven't done anything like that since then.

[Northwest_Bowhunter]

Originally posted by Don Stokes:
If it feels good, shoot it!

Words to live by, know your ability and know your tools.

[Mike Gerardi]

Spring 2010 Montana. Goffer at 33 yds. Head shot! I thought Doug was gonna fall out of the truck! I try and keep all my whitetail shots under 20yds.    

[coaster500]

Ground squirrels are fair game at any distance.... Longest so far 38 paces (Luck)    Big game I'm probably 25 yards or less but then I'm new to this and haven't killed anything bigger than a rabbit with trad equipment ... It's about getting close now, or I'd still be using my gun or wheels....

[varmint101]

Sheepshooter that's cool!

My longest is 55 paced off yards on a doe.  Didn't think it was quite that far, but it sure was.  I was pulling 63# on a 64" longbow.  The woodsman tipped cedar made it all the way through with a very short bloodtrail.

[ncsaknech1ydh]

28 yards one time, I feel comfortable to 30 but everything would have to be perfect as in perfect broadside, no wind. All of my other stuff has been 22 yards and less, most around 15.

[ishoot4thrills]

I killed a doe last fall at 23 yards. That's my farthest. Shortest distance on deer for me is 18 yards. My limit for shooting at big game under most circumstances is 25 yards.

[Dale Sharp]

When I was very young and didn't know any better, or rather when it perhaps wasn't regarded as anything other than fairly typical (in the early 1970's), I put a lethal arrow into a button mule deer buck from about 55 yards; there was no way to pace it as there was a river between us. At that time in my life my family shot field rounds several times a week and they featured shots out to 80 yards so my windage was often pretty good on the practice course. But I suffered greatly from 'buck fever' (antlers or not!) as a boy so that little deer just happened to be in the wrong place when the arrow came down.

[Thumper Dunker]

I get ground squirrels at 25-40yds But I shoot at them several times a week.But I try to get as close as possible. I have missed Deer and coyotes at 15 yards or less. im not a good deer hunter , Buck fever  bad. With me the bigger the game the easyer for me to miss. You should get as close as posible . Even with a rifle or any thing els.Its harder to get a good close shot than a long shot.

[homerdave]

Originally posted by COMPOUNDLESS IN CONCRETE:
Only trad kill I have is a couple weeks ago.  My 4 yo daughter was out with me while I was shooting and there was a big crow landed in the back about 50-60 yds away.  She urged me." Shoot him Daddy, shoot him!"  I couldn't resist, I let her fly and watched the arra plow him over where he stood.  She was extatic!  It was all fun and games until the other 5 million crows around saw him laying dead and then they all started balling and squaking and making the most awful racket I have ever heard in my life.  I looked down to see my little Brooke standing there with her hands over her ears saying, "Shoot them all daddy, Shoot them all!"  I said," Daddy isn't that lucky, and he doesn't have enough arrows sweetie."  I have never seen or heard crows do that before, but it is a pretty memorable experience for me and my daughter as well.

uh, since crow is closed in WA feb-october, the proper response would have been "sorry honey, it's not crow season"

blackbirds are  protected under the migratory bird treaty, and shooting them is likely a felony.
just sayin....

[Horne Shooter]

About 50 yards on a mulie doe.  Sitting in a canoe fishing for trout.  Since it was over water, I couldn't walk off the distance but it looked about that.  Same as everyone else, I just felt like the shot was going to be solid.  I picked a ruffled up spot behind her shoulder and missed it by less than an inch.  She piled up in about 20 yards.  Doubt I would do it again but it happened and you asked!

[centaur]

1000 yards, but I missed  

[Crash]

I have just read every thread on here and there are two common themes to all of the shots.  First, practice, second, they didn't think about the shots, only executed them as they had in practice.  I have made shots out to 40 yards on small game and a hog around 25 or so.  The hog was right after I stalked up to another hog at less than 20 and missed because I thought about it too much.  Think long, think wrong.