I take it by 120m you mean meters, so that shot would have been 130yards?
That's very impressive shooting. Great shot placement.
80m Fox Kill
Re: 80m Fox Kill
Yeah i get ya, I didn't think it was that far... Oh well it's done nowbob1961 wrote:great fuel for the anti's shooting that far, nice going....
Correctantondavel wrote:I take it by 120m you mean meters, so that shot would have been 130yards?
That's very impressive shooting. Great shot placement.
Re: 80m Fox Kill
I realize antis love to jump on perceived advantages of xbows vs xbows but a well set up vbow with a person who can use it well can hit targets well out to 80-100 yds. In the late 80s, here in Arkansas, during an extreme, extended snowy, icy, zero degree temp 2 weeks, predators became rather aggressive. I was vbow hunting and had 8 coyotes follow me into my tree stand and WOULDN'T leave as I started to get down with my Darton Impulse/Ballistic Mirage Cams/4 arrow quiver. They were snapping at me as I got near the ground. They stayed until well after dark and eventually left. I got down well after dark. No cell phone, no fire arm, no flashlight as I planned on being at church that evening . Loooonnng 800 yd crunchy walk thru the ice and snow back to the truck.
I took a # actions after this. Always take multiple flashlights/batteries, tell where I'm going, carry a small pistol(LCP), cell phone, and declare war on cototes!!
Using range finders(large, mechanical Spectrum 500 back then, Leupold 600 now), and pins to 100 yds practiced incessantly. Shot lots of coyotes out to 100+ yds. Missed a few also, of course, but fewer than killed. Too far for deer(for me) but not for coyotes or the occasional bobcat. Same with xbow. My 405 has taken a few also and am now primarily hunting these stinking animals as much as possible. Now using M380 as 405 riser is at agingcrossboyers
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A well set up M380/405 has the extreme accuracy, repeatability, and range to have a lot of productive activity to reduce this blight on nature: coyotes. Theyre epidemic here! An Optimizer/great scope or a multi lined crossbow scope that reaches way out there such as the Zeiss crossbow scope (82.5 yds), can make this possible and even practical. Tagged out on deer? Deer season over? You might even enjoy this predator hunting even more now: even if it's summer and you're in Australia.
If you're an anti xbowyer, learn to shoot! Get over your "exclusiveness". Offhand shooting a xbow vs shooting a compound vbow is no more accurate for me(I'm not a very good offhand shooter). However, using a rest is a different story
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Kill those predators!!
I took a # actions after this. Always take multiple flashlights/batteries, tell where I'm going, carry a small pistol(LCP), cell phone, and declare war on cototes!!
Using range finders(large, mechanical Spectrum 500 back then, Leupold 600 now), and pins to 100 yds practiced incessantly. Shot lots of coyotes out to 100+ yds. Missed a few also, of course, but fewer than killed. Too far for deer(for me) but not for coyotes or the occasional bobcat. Same with xbow. My 405 has taken a few also and am now primarily hunting these stinking animals as much as possible. Now using M380 as 405 riser is at agingcrossboyers
. A well set up M380/405 has the extreme accuracy, repeatability, and range to have a lot of productive activity to reduce this blight on nature: coyotes. Theyre epidemic here! An Optimizer/great scope or a multi lined crossbow scope that reaches way out there such as the Zeiss crossbow scope (82.5 yds), can make this possible and even practical. Tagged out on deer? Deer season over? You might even enjoy this predator hunting even more now: even if it's summer and you're in Australia.
If you're an anti xbowyer, learn to shoot! Get over your "exclusiveness". Offhand shooting a xbow vs shooting a compound vbow is no more accurate for me(I'm not a very good offhand shooter). However, using a rest is a different story
.Kill those predators!!
Re: 80m Fox Kill
Well said!
Red fox's are everywhere around here, and my mission is to take out as many as i can!
We also have a few wild deer around the place, and they are considered a pest because they are none native and can be taken at any time of the day/night all year round.
But i don't have much interest in taking down a deer unless i really wanted the meat. Killing fox's is where its at for me!
Red fox's are everywhere around here, and my mission is to take out as many as i can!
We also have a few wild deer around the place, and they are considered a pest because they are none native and can be taken at any time of the day/night all year round.
But i don't have much interest in taking down a deer unless i really wanted the meat. Killing fox's is where its at for me!