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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 4587031" data-attributes="member: 54707">Fair Enough. If you're hunting dragons or bears, then you gotta point. But what if they're hunting you?So just for the sake of argument, let's try a little thought experimenting in shooting bears.I assume when you are hunting bears you don't step out in front of them and shoot them man-to-bear while they are facing you? That you probably shoot them from a fair distance (from your point of view) when they aren't looking and don't even know you're there? Mostly right? And maybe you got your sidearm slung on your waist, just in case you miss and have an unfortunate close encounter? (The smart way to do it by the way.) Or maybe you got a buddy waiting to loose in case you don't drop him by surprise? Maybe all of these. (The smartest way to do it.)But now shooting a bear who is staring right at you, or charging right at you, with a recurve bow or even a longbow (and it's real hard to shoot a longbow accurately for most fellas) that's a whole nuther kinda bear, ain't it? Or if a bear is already up on top of you, or worse yet, had ambushed you? (Instead of the other way around.)That's a very different kind of bear for most folks I suspect than the "I'm bent over gutting a fish and get shot by a modern compound bow with modern sights blindsided sort of bear."So there's shooting bears and dragons, and then there's shooting bears and dragons. You shoot a stationary target center of mass, or in the back of the head (assuming you're terrifically good) from a safe distance, take him by surprise and kill him easy (the smart way it do it) and that's one kinda shooting monsters and bears. You shoot him when he's got a red-hot mean on for you, injured and with his blood up, or on the charge, or in his lair, or when he knows you're coming, and that's a whole nuther kinda magic arrow. And you better be awfully good at what ya do or easy might not be exactly how it comes off, assuming, that is, you live to tell the tale.</blockquote>

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