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Bama's got the same law, but if I had to kill a deer for predation, I would definitely use the meat. We eat it regularly, and I would hate to see it go to waste. Obviously if the weather was hot, I'd likely do a backstrap/hind quarter snatch and let the rest lie. If I did nothing at all, the...

There has been much argument concerning "primitive" weaponry in the last few years. When crossbows became common, many compound bow shooters hit the roof, claiming that crossbows weren't "primitive", while never considering that their compound bows weren't "primitive" either. Crossbows were used...

The opening post of this thread was about taking long shots at at an elk. The mention of "jumping the string" came into the discussion a few posts later, and mainly concerns deer. I've never hunted moose or elk, but based on video I've seen of both, neither is as nimble and quick as a whitetail...

Not exactly. IMO, the further out an animal is, the more time it has to react. From my experience, game's reaction is totally unpredictable at best. I shot at a doe once at 50 yards. She was standing broadside, clear shot...when the arrow arrived, it went right where her heart/lung area had...

The difference is that one target is a fixed, inanimate target, and the other is a live target that may or may not move between the time of release and the time the arrow arrives.

I practice at 40 - 45 yards, but don't like shooting past 30. I have a video of a guy who shoots instinctive, (no sights, no release), and on the video he shoots about 70 yards and connects on a mule deer. It shows him shooting a couple on the run. I'm not about to try a running shot....with a bow.