One surefire way to remedy that problem is to shoot a pendulum sight, they do work,and are especially effective if you do most of your hunting from a treestand. When I say range at eye level its because if you are in a tree and shoot your rangefinder straight down its going to give a reading as to how far you are off the ground. Same thing happens when you range from the stand to an object out there on the ground like a stump or something,its going to give you a little farther reading than actual distance from the tree which can cause you to shoot high. If you range at eye level certain objects around your tree then you will have taken that out of the equation. Remember to always aim low because 90% of misses are going to be high because of the angle coupled with the deer normally crouching to load its legs to flee.
I rarely went higher than 10-12' with my stands. between the vertigo and sleep apnea ( I'm always falling asleep). I don't go any higher than I feel I could survive a fall without too much damage, and I always use some sort of harness or restraint/tether. and I would set a tree stand in my yard and practice alot from it. with my bow at 10-20 yds from the ground or 10' up there wasn't alot of difference so I just go with one pin and I'm good from 0-25. I rarely shoot beyond 25 yds with a rifle. and I feel theres too much margin for error or hitting limbs/brush, so I hold off on long shots. I've never been faced with a shot much over 20 yds that didn't have some kind of brush in the way anyhow.
the speed of sound travels at least twice as fast as the fastest bows. thats how deer can "jump the string", if you don't get a good release and twang the string / or even a good release they can sometimes hear it and the further away they are the more time they have to react to it, and we are talking milliseconds. it don't take them long to crouch or duck.
I'm sure someone out there knows the exact #, but I believe the speed of sound is about 800 fps, so even if you have an incredibly fast bow at 300 fps the deer still has plenty of time to react if the bow makes a noisy draw or release.
I think I'd have to disagree with that one. Speed of sound at 20 yards away, that's not enough reaction time.I do somewhat understand the ducking the arrow excuse for missing a shot but think about it.
