Deer season for Texas is right around the corner and it's open season for some other game. This is pretty much the first season airguns will be legal for deer and already I've had to talk a few hunters out of the clouds thinking they are going to take deer down from well over 100 yards with airguns
I have successfully hunted deer with archery getting my bag limit just about every year without a wounding or lost animal. That being said let me give you a simple math technique that will help you insure you stay within a deers reaction time, take your FPS and drop the last digit to get your maximum yardage so for example 900 fps your yardage will be 90 yards. Now understand I'm not saying that you couldn't kill the deer a further ranges. But if you use this simple formula you dramatically decrease the chance of the deer "jumping your string" a term used in archery when the deer hears the pop of the bowstring and reacts by springing into a run before the projectile reaches it.
Deer will almost always bend it's front legs and arch it's back into a spring when startled, dropping the boilerplate shot 4 to 6 inches resulting in a shot right over the back and the hunter wondering how Neo taught the deer to pull that trick.
Yes the number has some wiggle room but better safe than sorry
I have successfully hunted deer with archery getting my bag limit just about every year without a wounding or lost animal. That being said let me give you a simple math technique that will help you insure you stay within a deers reaction time, take your FPS and drop the last digit to get your maximum yardage so for example 900 fps your yardage will be 90 yards. Now understand I'm not saying that you couldn't kill the deer a further ranges. But if you use this simple formula you dramatically decrease the chance of the deer "jumping your string" a term used in archery when the deer hears the pop of the bowstring and reacts by springing into a run before the projectile reaches it.
Deer will almost always bend it's front legs and arch it's back into a spring when startled, dropping the boilerplate shot 4 to 6 inches resulting in a shot right over the back and the hunter wondering how Neo taught the deer to pull that trick.
Yes the number has some wiggle room but better safe than sorry