This has to be the toughest hunting I have ever attempted. To use a longbow on deer is difficult, to say the least. How did anybody ever kill anything with a bow?! My range is about 25 yards, but in the interest of ethical hunting I will not take a shot outside of 15 yards. As a result, the season is nearly over and I have broken one arrow, lost another and there is still no meat in the freezer. My hat goes off to the men and women who lived out there all those years ago.