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Help setting up a new Hoyt Carbon Element or Matrix (arrows, sights, rest, broadheads
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<blockquote data-quote="SWAT Medic" data-source="post: 661651" data-attributes="member: 49418"><p><strong>Re: Help setting up a new Hoyt Carbon Element or Matrix (arrows, sights, rest, broadh</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Oh, no doubt you can get out to 100yds. I love shooting field archery courses, and love the longer distance targets. Here in NorCal there are a few really great field courses with great ranges to practice out to 80 yds or more...but my question is ethics regarding taking the 100 yard shot. Since an arrow will lose alot of KE out past 50 yards, it's ability to accurately make a kill shot is severely compromised.</p><p></p><p>Not to mention that it is very hard to accurately place the pin on the vitals out that far without a scope. Now with a 6x scope and my 37" ATA target bow...I feel very confident that I will hit the x-ring time and time again. But a hunting set-up doesn't have that luxury (usually). Using a scope while hunting can be disorienting. When shooting paper, it's a matter of muscle memory.</p><p></p><p>I have always held to the ethos that 45 yds and in is a safe range...but to each his own, and if you have the skill to make that shot, then I say go for it! People who I trust and who are way smarter than me and much better with a bow drilled it into me that you just don't want to chance smacking that buck in the mouth or guts instead of the lungs out past that. My $.02, and now I'll shut up.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SWAT Medic, post: 661651, member: 49418"] [b]Re: Help setting up a new Hoyt Carbon Element or Matrix (arrows, sights, rest, broadh[/b] Oh, no doubt you can get out to 100yds. I love shooting field archery courses, and love the longer distance targets. Here in NorCal there are a few really great field courses with great ranges to practice out to 80 yds or more...but my question is ethics regarding taking the 100 yard shot. Since an arrow will lose alot of KE out past 50 yards, it's ability to accurately make a kill shot is severely compromised. Not to mention that it is very hard to accurately place the pin on the vitals out that far without a scope. Now with a 6x scope and my 37" ATA target bow...I feel very confident that I will hit the x-ring time and time again. But a hunting set-up doesn't have that luxury (usually). Using a scope while hunting can be disorienting. When shooting paper, it's a matter of muscle memory. I have always held to the ethos that 45 yds and in is a safe range...but to each his own, and if you have the skill to make that shot, then I say go for it! People who I trust and who are way smarter than me and much better with a bow drilled it into me that you just don't want to chance smacking that buck in the mouth or guts instead of the lungs out past that. My $.02, and now I'll shut up. [/QUOTE]
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