If you picked up your bow for the first time to go hunting and didn't practice or have any experience with one pin and started flinging arrows at deer I guess you could use the terms " Unethical"and "guesswork". I'm glad 20,30,40,and 50 yd. pins work for you. I've been shooting one pin since I started bow hunting 30 years ago, and I'm here to tell you there's nothing unethical about the way I hunt, and there's no guesswork to it. It's called years and years of practice, and years and years of killing deer. You do what works for you, and be careful of the words you use when describing how others choose to do what works for them. Have you never wounded a deer with a bow? If you haven't then just wait. If you hunt with a bow long enough you will. I have wounded deer and it didn't have anything to do with how many pins I have on my sight. I know what my effective range is with a bow and just because I choose to shoot one pin doesn't mean I'll start lobbing arrows at deer out of my effective range. Frankly that generalization and the other negative terms you levied on one pin shooters is ignorant and inflammatory. But your good enough to gap shoot your 25 and 35 yard pins, good for you. I am passionate about my hunting, I have dedicated my life to the outdoors and the wildlife that inhabit it. I am a life long hunter, and I take seriously anyone who with out knowledge would generalize and call into question the ethical nature of how I choose to hunt.
So, fellas, I have to apologize that my post was taken incorrectly, but I also have to tell you that I did not, after reading my post several times, say anything about anyone that I felt was inflammatory other than the fact that I based all of my remarks off of my own experiences. I’m not here to argue with anyone as this is supposed to be a resource for hunters
as well as a sounding board for honest opinions. Mine, as they pertain to sights, don’t seem to gel with yours. That’s fine; I’ll no longer allow
@Bach55 to get his inquiry jacked by “inflammatory” remarks, mine or otherwise.
Seriously, I think it’s okay to disagree, and even to do so with a certain level of emotion as both I and others here have done. I’m sorry you didn’t agree with my disagreement, and that you feel I pooped in your cereal a bit. I have felt the nausea of wounding an animal, and that’s the only root to my many-stemmed original post.
I really do love this site and the respect the opinions, no BS. I also don’t have to agree as you do not with me in this case. I called nobody into question except for myself, stating that it is not a practice that I personally, solely, feel is ethical to do for my own shooting, based on what I have seen and done
as well as the other hunters I have known. Sorry to hear it was taken so personally in return, although perhaps I should have expected as much.
I have seen much more divisive language on this site than what I originally wrote, handled much better and much worse than it is here. and I must now ask you to please move on for the sake of
@Bach55 first post. The guy asked for opinions; I gave one like everyone else.
I hope you can now offer yours to him and allow me to exit the conversation.
I hope you all go into the woods with your best version of yourself this Fall and whatever you put on your bow, shoot your best as well. I’m not here to judge you, just to make judgements of and for my own methods.
Best vibes for a good thread and a better season.