Rusty, I hunt with a "cheater" on my string as well.:cheers:

I have a 20 yard tie on always, but if I am say hunting bear over bait, I tie on an additional marker for the distance to the middle of the bait pile.

BTW, I must be reading your numbers wrong, or it may be that I do not understand gapping "jargon"?

If you are dead on @ 15 yards, and 13.4" low @ 25 yards, where does the 7.9 number come into play?:sbrug:

 

Here is what remember. At 10 yds I got gap three fingers (width) under the spot. At 20 yds I gap to be 4 fingers over the spot want to hit. At 25 yes I will use my 25 yd crawl so from 10 to 20 is all I use the 15 yd mark for. That mark makes up 90% of the meat in the freezer

Edit. Sorry the 20 yd should have been 4 finger widths gap over the spot. It is easier to remember it than type it

 

The thing about "aiming" is that it seems like each archer has "his' own way that works best for him. While I don't doubt for a second that this is the best for you Rusty, it's not for me. It may be a great thing for another archer, but that's the thing, if we're really working at being the best we can be, we should be working these things out for ourselves.....

Tom

 

Here is my hunting tab. It was made by Don Baker and is a dandy. Those wee holes tell me all I need to know.

You can see my 15 yd mark on the string right above my middle finger.

The Aladin riser is not my usual hunting riser

 

How good is the Beitor rest?

 

Sam it is not a hunting rest for sure. The arrow whip from string walking wares it out pretty quickly. For shooting a sight with a low anchor it is my favorite

 

Rusty,,not to hijack the topic but, what rest in your opinion is the most durable SWing rest?

 

Sam you use my personal favorite. The Center rest flipper with the spring plunger.

I use an old springy rest a lot with feathers

 

That is a fine looking tab Rusty!

Sam, check out this rest..... a fav of mine.

http://www.lancasterarchery.com/aae-champion-ii-arrow-rest.html

Tom

 

Rusty,
Just wondered at what crawl you tune your rig for. Lets say if you almost always use that 15 yard crawl, do you tune there?
By the way, I never welcomed you back, glad to see you are still kicking!
Doug

 

I try to get my hunting rig shooting real clean at 25 yds. Since I am aiming I would take a shot at 30 yds if it was the right shot, especially at larger kill zones like elk or mule deer. I am still in a crawl at 25 yds.

LOL, the first deer I shot with a bow was in 1957 down on the Canadian River in the Panhandle of Texas, the distance was 45 yds. Had just shot a whole season of field archery. I thought 45 yds was close range. I field dressed the deer, very excited. Went to get my hunting mentor. He looked the deer over and congratulated me on a great shot on an illegal deer. Had to have a forked antler to be legal. This deer was a doe. Thru the whole stalk and shot it never occurred to me. This was Texas first archery season. I learned to read laws since but didn't get much smarter.

 

rusty, when using your crawl method, do you ever have any issues getting good broadhead flight at both your 15 and 25 yd crawls? It's an interesting idea that I'm going to have to try. Any other tuning tips you can share with us?

 

BH issues can happen when tuning a crawl. Never been any I could not fix or find a BH that would work. I have not had trouble with any three blade woodsman. Fly fine. Have to stop a whistle now and then

Some of the new high quality will fly to forty yards.

 

I can attest to Rusty shooting 60 yds with his string walking rig in Elk camp. And then having a 30 yd on a really big mule deer in the field and hitting his range finder and sending it pogoing away. LOL

Mike

 

Now there is a tip for you. Since traditional bow hunters don't use range finders. I can tell you for sure, if you range a mule deer then drop your range finder hitting your metal riser......the mule deer looks right at you. Then bounces off.

Mike's right.......I am a half wit LOL. On the other hand when in the mountains, considering an elks size, I think they at 15 yards......till I shoot and the arrow lands 10 feet short of the elk. I call it the Texas whitetail syndrome. If you shoot at 90# deer all your life a 600# elk looks 7x closer than it is.

 

Not that a grouse in a tree five feet away is any easier to hit lol

 

*ouch!*

rusty, did you used to be friends with a guy by the name of Mike W?

 

Dave....now the funny part is ya think Mike is making all these stories up....???

Hey I get lost in my bath tube and I judge distance worse than Ray Charles.

When Mike and I first started shooting together, I ask him (an excellent judge of judge of distance) how far the shot was. I would then put an arrow in the kill zone at least. Well dang it he is not as dumb as ya think. The son of a gun started fibbing to me. I caught on after I put an arrow 6" over a black bucks back. LOL;....I stopped asking

 

Seems like you guys have had some great hunts and lots of good times. :cheers:

 

Them Blue Chickens eat good!:shooting:

 

They are the most fun hunting I ever had. Laughed till I got a stitch in my side. Mike and I had a blizzard of grouse feathers in the air. I was chasing a wounded around and around a pecker tree. Mike shouts hey your are scaring my grouse. I look up just as he stomps the head of a wound. He has got grouse feathers in his beard and stomping a grouse......and he thinks I am scaring the grouse. Made me laugh.

 

Mike is first rate cook. Makes grouse Alfredo that is plumb scrumptious. Worth 2000 mile drive on its own