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How many of you guys shoot from an elevated posistion?

I remember when I was a kid our yard backed up to Corp of Engineers property and I had a stand up up with targets at 15-25-30 yards measured exactly from a 18ft treestand.

This year my GF and I are getting back into the archery and we don't have the space like I used to.

SO... I've come up with the fact that we're going to be shooting from our rooftop to our back yard. Should work pretty good, might look funny to passer-bys in th neighborhood but oh well....

ANyone else shoot/practice from elevation?
 
ive been known to shoot from the roof a time or two... from what i found, its pretty much the same shot as on the ground as far as yardage.... but im no expert....
 
Yardage is about the same give or take a yard or two.

But I know that shooting at a downward angle is a little more challenging than shooting on flat ground straight on.

I'm getting my GF into it (she is more excited than I am) and I want to train her right.

She's gotta get stance/body posistion etc. down. She doesn't even understand how you can see through the peep site when it's vertical pre-pull! Starting from scratch!
 
Unless you can bend from the waist while shooting from your roof , I think it would be more beneficial to practice from a level treestand while strapped in .
 
Radar said:
Unless you can bend from the waist while shooting from your roof , I think it would be more beneficial to practice from a level treestand while strapped in .
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Well said, you need to practice form on the ground and elevated, if you keep the form correct it will be point of aim, point of impact be it 20 yards on the ground or 20 yards 15 feet in the tree.
 
i shoot from by bedroom balcony, 16ft. i also shoot from a climber at 16-18ft in my back yard at different locations left and right of my stand. works pretty good. i also shoot off the ground cause i have walked right in on deer before, and it shoots a little different cause i zero my pin from my balcony.
 
Depending on how big of a yard you have you could build a little platform that's easy to go up and down to get your arrows each time. 10' high would be plenty tall for practicing or you could build it higher if you wanted to.
 
I can see my neighbors yelling now seeing me peer into their backyards!

I have my own pulley system set up for arrow retrieval... it's called a 8,9.10 year old kids!
 
What you really need to practice is bending at the waist from an elevated position . I'm not sure you can bend at the waist properly on an angled rooftop without losing your balance.
 
I used to think it really did not matter that much. And with some of my hunting set-ups, it didn't. But I have had more than one set-up where it really made a difference when shooting form aloft. My bow currently shoots about 260 fps. If I climb 25 feet up, a common hunting height for me, and shoot a 3-d target about 15 yards from the base of my tree, I will hit high EVERY time. You put a deer, capable of dropping a full body height in a tenth of a second, into the mix, and you have potential for a really bad screw up. I ALWAYS check my "ground pin" sights, and make proper adjustments with broadheads attatched pryor to heading to the deer woods.

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Because of the flatter trajectory of a faster arrow , there isn't as much difference as there used to be with slower setups . The biggest factors are shooting form , stand height , and a quiet bow to reduce the chance of a deer ducking at the sound of the shot .
The main thing is to practice at common hunting heights from a stand .
 
Again... good points by all.


I know that a quiet bow has a lot to do with a good shot.

I've shot over and under deer due to the "twang". Was a dead on shot but the deer jumped or ducked the arrow.

I'm interested to get my new PSE Stinger in a couple weeks. Hear it's ultra quiet.


Now as far as elevation hunting you're always going to shoot high because you're actually not aiming a direct straight shot. You're better off shooting high than low anyways at a downward angle.

Shooting low would possibly get a lower lung and come out beyond the front quarter on the other side.
By shooting a tad high you're shooting lung, probably heart and low on opposite lung. If you shoot really high at say a deer directly under you you're at the least looking at a spine/heart shot and you can get off another arrow.
 
Hitting a deer too high can be a bad shot because of the increased chance of hitting the shoulder or just below the spine . I'd rather hit a little low and take out the heart . I have never lost a deer hit in the heart , but I have lost a few hit high in the shoulder or just below the spine .
 
Shooting from I mean.....

The higher you are then obviously the higher you will have to aim. Also depends on how far you're shooting.

(note weird deja vu just now)

But, if its a deer 30 yards away and your ground hunting it's a dead on 30yrd pin shot.

30yrds from 20ft in the air you'd have to aim higher due to arrow arc. Right?
 
Angles will play a part in every shot . The trick is to aim for where you want the arrow to exit and avoiding the shoulder .
I aim for the heart on steep angled shots , and due to the angle , I usually centerpunch both lungs .
I messed up on a shot this past fall and aimed midway up on a steep shot and lost a nice deer in a nasty pine thicket due to the high hit just below the spine and lack of blood . It made me sick , and I blamed myself for not aiming lower and getting an exit wound .
 

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