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Bow vs Pistol...Poll...Another fight night.
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<blockquote data-quote="Rent Outdoor Gear" data-source="post: 2322037" data-attributes="member: 72470"><p>It's never my first choice to a shoot a deer at 100 yards, but under the right conditions I could, I would, and I have. This is a long range hunting site isn't it? It doesn't say (guns only). My success at that distance is extremely high and no I haven't wounded or missed a bunch trying. I said the other exception is thick alders where I would prefer a pistol over a bow - so no... I'm not going to thread an arrow through the alders. </p><p></p><p>I have hunted alaska multiple times with my bow including Kodiak, the AK Peninsula, the Brooks range twice, and the Yukon 3 times. I've never packed more than a 10 mm with one exception where I brought the 454 Casull on the Peninsula when I was hunting and filming another archer stalking 10' brown bears. Also didn't say the 10 mm was an awesome bear stopper - it's what I usually pack because its light and holds a bunch and I'm accurate and extremely comfortable with it. I'll take that every time over a cannon that I haven't shot much. When you have a bear suck the tent fabric away from your face with their nose, you want to be grabbing ahold of something very familiar in the dark.</p><p></p><p>I'm not saying anyone else should shoot 100 yards with their bow or a pistol off-hand at game for that matter - it's up to each to know their limits. I'm saying I can, and feel I would be more lethal at 100 yards than 99.99% of people with an off-hand, iron-sighted pistol at that distance. I think most archers would agree they're more accurate at their comfortable range with a bow than they would be with a pistol. However, I'm also sure there are avid hand-gun hunters that would say the opposite is true for them, but I'd wager they would not shoot 100 yards at a critter unless it was off a rest of some sort. In my book, both are perfectly lethal within 100 yards if the bullet or arrow can be <strong>accurately</strong> placed. Which is why I also said a rifle cartridge on a scoped TC off a rest trumps a bow.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rent Outdoor Gear, post: 2322037, member: 72470"] It's never my first choice to a shoot a deer at 100 yards, but under the right conditions I could, I would, and I have. This is a long range hunting site isn't it? It doesn't say (guns only). My success at that distance is extremely high and no I haven't wounded or missed a bunch trying. I said the other exception is thick alders where I would prefer a pistol over a bow - so no... I'm not going to thread an arrow through the alders. I have hunted alaska multiple times with my bow including Kodiak, the AK Peninsula, the Brooks range twice, and the Yukon 3 times. I've never packed more than a 10 mm with one exception where I brought the 454 Casull on the Peninsula when I was hunting and filming another archer stalking 10' brown bears. Also didn't say the 10 mm was an awesome bear stopper - it's what I usually pack because its light and holds a bunch and I'm accurate and extremely comfortable with it. I'll take that every time over a cannon that I haven't shot much. When you have a bear suck the tent fabric away from your face with their nose, you want to be grabbing ahold of something very familiar in the dark. I'm not saying anyone else should shoot 100 yards with their bow or a pistol off-hand at game for that matter - it's up to each to know their limits. I'm saying I can, and feel I would be more lethal at 100 yards than 99.99% of people with an off-hand, iron-sighted pistol at that distance. I think most archers would agree they're more accurate at their comfortable range with a bow than they would be with a pistol. However, I'm also sure there are avid hand-gun hunters that would say the opposite is true for them, but I'd wager they would not shoot 100 yards at a critter unless it was off a rest of some sort. In my book, both are perfectly lethal within 100 yards if the bullet or arrow can be [B]accurately[/B] placed. Which is why I also said a rifle cartridge on a scoped TC off a rest trumps a bow. [/QUOTE]
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