Public Land Hunting in Australia with Alex Proft

I honestly, like I often go back and forth in my mind about how much they tinker and how much they like absolutely care about every single small miniature detail.

Like they have to have everything to a T and it makes sense because if you've got one opportunity every single year like literally one maybe two shots that you could potentially take in that whole year and you're going to spend 13 hours a day sitting in a tree stand waiting for a deer to come across your 10 acre block like it makes a lot of sense as to why you want that detail and for me i just i'm not a tinkerer and i'm like oh it would do my head in to be to that level but i guess that's the killer

yeah

no that's not it

but it's funny though isn't it but that's the point that they will spend all because what else are they going to do yeah moments I guess I'm not just saying that we're lucky again, but we do end up putting bullets or arrows in a lot more animals than they'll ever get a chance to.

I wonder, does that make us better archers because we're doing it practically all the time? I mean, because I don't completely swap myself in bow hunting media from overseas, but I do notice that when I do, that some of them are taking some pretty hectic shots.

And

it's like 50 to 60 yards isn't,

Yeah, even some of them are creeping out even more.

Like, it's become very popular to do 70 plus yards.

Like, that's a very common shot.

And it's very interesting.

There's almost like that constant battle going on between bow hunting is about getting close and making sure you secure that shot.

And I am, I don't know, I'm guilty for it myself, where if I shoot over 40 meters, even over 30 meters, like...

it doesn't necessarily always come out the way you want it to come out.

And that's horrible because you've worked your ass off.

And if you could just get that extra 10 meters, you probably could have secured me.

You probably could have had that actual situation play out the way you wanted it to.

But in that moment, you just lose it a little bit.

You're like, oh, but I shoot out to 40 meters all the time.

But it's about every meter you get closer under that 40 meters, your success rate just goes up and up and up and up.

Yeah, it just narrows it so much more.

So it's so worthwhile doing it.

But yeah, it's very interesting where you're seeing a lot of – famous people people who shoot target archery for a living for instance and then they go out and they do hunting as well and hats off to them but then they're shooting 100 yards like i saw a 120 yard shot with a bow the other day i'm like well is it really still bow hunting like yes you're doing it with the apparatus but yeah

but i mean again i never want to tell because we've had this conversation in the rifle world about like oh we can't long range shoot it's like well yeah the individual will know their limits and they'll know if they're pushing them i mean you can't impose your standards on someone else.