Arrow how far can they fly???

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How far can one fly. I was walking across my field and no one should be in that area hunting. Well out at least 75 yards form my nearest stand we found an arrow. One of them new fancy carbon arrows. I have only one guy hunting and he is disabled and uses a cross bow so it is not his arrow. So say my neighbor on top of the hill shot and arrow towards my place and it glanced off something could it have gone say 300 yards His land is hill top and where this arrow was found is the valley.
 
If he had shot up in the air, yeah, 300 yards could happen pretty easy. Couple archery competitions I went to in the states had the longest shot for recurve bows at 110 yards, so a compound can go quite a bit further.
 
Do you remember how it was stuck in the ground? If it was vertical or close to it I would say it could have been a stray. But, if it was at 45 or so then it was probably fired from a treestand.
 
I would not think he or they would shoot it in the air but if sitting in a deer stand on top of the hill I could see it flying a long ways. My worry of course is my animals and for that matter my self
 
I guess you could send an email to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and ask him. Might be quite a wait for a reply though.
I assume you recall his wonderful poem:

I shot an arrow into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For, so swiftly it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in its flight.

I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For who has sight so keen and strong,
That it can follow the flight of song?

Long, long afterward, in an oak
I found the arrow, still unbroke;
And the song, from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend.
 
They can go some distance if fired upwards, like towards the sky at an angle. I found one I believe I fired like that, like 200 yds away at the bottom of the hill I live on, at the edge of a field. This was one that I had found and just decided to try it seeing it was just about straight enough to fly.

Just recently, and I can't say why, but I used the wrong sight pin while practicing, and the arrow went into some woods with 8"-10" trees, adjacent to a meadow, a strip of woods, that arrow went through the woods somehow and stuck into the grass 20 feet off the tree line, way left of where I shot, wasted a good arrow, time for a cable strung across and some old carpet or something for a cheap backstop to catch any strar ones, just had 'er restrung and a new sight put on, was holding tack driving groups at 20 yds before.

What do you all use for a cheap backstop when dialing in just in case something is awry? Arrows sure are not cheap !
 
I was wondering about hay bales, somewhere I heard you should not use them, forget why, alleged to ruin arrows maybe ? Archery shop guy in his 80's and in business 40 years said the carpet slung over a cable or similar would work, but it sure would be easy to put a target in front of a hay stack. Once dialed in, never much concern about it, just that getting sighted in part, have to be careful.
 
I sneezed a sneeze into the air
It fell to earth I know not where
But hard and frozen were the looks of those
In whose direction I had snooze
 
I use old dock foam but out here you can get that stuff just for hauling it away. Did find out how the arrow got here and the guy whose it was seemed to get mad at me just for calling him and asking about it. Guess I should have used the lawyer since we are sort of in a law suit with him but was trying to be nice but that will never happen again and will report him for unsafe practices
 
I looked it up just out of curiosity , 200 yds easily on line and up to 400 yd fired up on an angle
 
why not just go to the local archery shop and buy one of those square box targets that will stop a arrow.i bought one last year its measures around 14x14 inches or close to it stops my 200 lb draw cross bow think i gave around 40 bucks for it.i strongly recommend one it works really great
RICK
 
I know they will go most of a city block.
My cousin Clark when he was a kid got a new bow and arrows for his birthday. They lived in town in St Cloud, MN. So he is out fooling around with it and shoots the arrow up up and away. Never found it. Untill that night. His dad gets a call from the neighbor about half a block away. The arrow went through the kitchen window and stuck in the refridgerator door.
Needless to say Clark caught he77 for that one. And the bow and arrows mysteriously disappeared.
 
I found out how it got to where it was. It is by the way bow season here right now and I called the neighbor and he said ya it was his and then acted like I was the guy in the wrong for calling him and asking about the arrow. He got mad at me an hung up on me so guess he does not like it that I called him about his arrow in my pasture.
 
I shot an arrow in the air it fell to earth i know not where,until next day with rage profound the man it fell on came around.

In less time than it takes to tell,he showed me where the arrow fell,and now i do not greatly care to shoot more arrows in the air.
 
Old,I might be off a little,Ive got a crossbow that I shoot a red dot scope with.From 15 to 40 yards its acurate.A friend of mine never shot one so he aimed it at a large nest in a tree along the side of the Shenandoah river that I know was a 100 yards away and hit the the nest.The arrow continued through the air and crossed the river and landed some where on the mountain.I might be wrong but Ill bet it was atleast 600 yards

jimmy
 
I found this interesting,....
A 14 year old boy in England, set a new world record, by shooting an arrow 529 yards with a 35# bow last year.

However that is nowhere near the world record of shooting an arrow for distance.

Distances achieved in Britain include:
Conventional Flight Bow (unlimited): Alan Webster — 916 yards.
Compound Flight Bow (60 lbs): Barry Groves - 914 yards. That distance has since been beaten.
 
From a Flight Archery site, about modern distance (flight) shooting conventionally, is about 850 yards. Our "free-style" flight record, made in 1959 with a foot-bow, is 937.13 yards. Just passing interest, as my son just made a recurve laminated bow this summer for 4H shooting sports.
Jim
 
If you think an arrow is bad in your pasture, how much lead do you think is out there?

It travels farther then arrows do.

Gary
 
Ya and he uses a compound bow and I for the life of me can not figure out how he could shoot an arrow 400 plus yards with a compound bow unless he was doing something he should not have been doing in the first place. He told me he stood up in the stand and hit the release he was using and to me why have the bow pulled back unless your going to shoot at a deer or something so his story does not fit. As for lead if he ever sends lead my way he will catch the lead I send his way it is called self defense
 
Poem Aprapoe." I shot an arrow into the air
it fell to earth I knew not where,
LOOSE A HE11 of a lot of arrows
that way"
LOU
 
I found a almost new pair of good gloves in a field full of weeds. A lot of baloons flights in that area. All I can think of it fell from one of them. stan
 
(quoted from post at 15:52:47 10/27/11) How far can one fly.

Well, the one I let loose this evening flew about 20 yds before it stopped. 8)

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She spotted my trail camera. Mark
 
Back in 74' or so I had a SM instructor that was a avid bow hunter. He said on the last night, He let off a hale marry shot on a 7 point bull elk
(that's 7point on one antler side for you Texacans, :) at 250yds not even thinking he would come close.

He said the bull flinched and kept on grazing. After about 5min the bull toppled over onto the grass. He said he could not have placed a better perfect shot.

The picture that he had showed a 7point bulls head with the Chin on the garage door way floor with the antler tip just fitting under the the top sill plate of the garage door frame. A huge rack in any case.

He turned the kill in to the Colo Dept of Game that they did acknowledge said kill.

T_Bone
 
Same or similar foam in targets made for the purpose.

Same neighbor with that issue of the driveway and access ? Hopefully not, just adds to the situation, people sometimes really can be a pain.

Regardless, I'd not want to make a big deal of if were me, but by the same token, I'd want to make sure the person knew I found it and politely ask them while looking em in the eye to be more careful, given the close proximity of the situation, who wants to worry about stray arrows LOL ! I usually point down when drawing back, I use a release too, and double click to make sure its locked, I don't trust those %100.

I had a similar problem here, golf balls, like a small bucket full I retrieved, so I canvassed the neighborhood, spoke to some neighbors etc. it seemed to stop, way too many and too close, sometimes these apparent, and to some slight, kinds of things need to be addressed, did not make any enemies doing it, might be different if I had to speak to em again, kind of rude and thoughtless by them, you are out there mowing or something, don't see that golf ball coming at you....
 
Not the same neighbor with the drive issue but also sort of one that had to be named in the suit due to the fact he uses the same drive or part of it so yep he is being sued also for things like road maintenance and of course he does not like it but on the other hand ever since he got the property about 10 years ago he has been a pain in the back sides. Doing things like running around on 4 wheelers during deer season making a lot of noise etc etc
 
I hear ya on that, unfortunate that you had to pursue legal options to get that straightened out. I'm not all that fussy myself but there are times you want things just kind of left alone, like when in your stand, and as always someone every so often, shows up on an ATV or tries to hunt on the place, not very often when I think about it, usually a new to the area person. It's too bad these people don't have the same appreciation for being quiet during hunting season, so I just ask em nicely to leave, and go back to sitting there bored or freezing but enjoying my time in the stand LOL !
 
Well for the most part I am a live and let live type of guy but when it gets to the point that you can not drive a car or get say a fire truck to a place then it is time to do something. As for the arrow I will have conservation ask a few questions and maybe explain to him how if he had hit a horse or a tractor he would have to pay big time
 

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