Saw where he made a 83 yard bow show on an elk.........that is a long way out there!!! a person woudl ahve time to shoot, put your bow down and get your camera out and take a picture before the arrow got there.

It can be done. It's not a shot that I am comfortable taking. But I know when I hunted in Arizona years ago there were guy I saw making kill shots on antelope out to 62 yards. Watching them take the shot was incredible. My opinion though, I'm not comfortable taking that long of a shot. I feel better at 35 yards and under. At least on Elk there is a farily large kill zone on that size of game so I can see it happening, just not by me.

yeah i wouldnt even attempt it. 40 is my MAX

Thats how he makes his living & he is good at what he does.

I know a large ranch in Colorado, (know the owners) that have Elk and deer hunts, they discontinued allowing bow hunts because to many bow hunters took the "hail Mary" shots wounding to many UN-recoverable Bulls. I know there are some competent bow hunters, but some times it pays to wait or close the distance.

Maybe they edit out the misses, but everything I've seen from him leads me to believe he's an excellent shot with a bow.

Too far for me...

He missed one at 8 yds

That is a really long ways..bad thing is, people will watch yes how and see him do it then think they can and end up wounding animals cause they thought If he could they could

I'm not a bow hunter...BUT, at 80 yards (240 feet), assuming a fps of around 350 on a bow, that is almost 7/10 of a second, versus half that for a 40 yard shot. That is not accounting for the fact that the arrow will have slowed down considerably at 80 yards, so you are likely looking at a full second. An animal can move a lot in that time. Don't think I'd ever take a shot like that.

Weren't Waddel and T-Bone both tournament archers before getting into current line of work. I have shot with people that were defiantly capable of those type of shots, just as some riflemen are fully capable of 800 yard shots. Those are not for all. A person should know their limitations and stay well within them.

One guy that was that good back in the early 80s I shot with some could do it with bows a lot slower than the ones in use today. Watched him with my bow that shot 220fps put 6 of 6 arrows in a skoal can at 60 yards after 2 shots at 20 yards with that bow. That year he quit deer hunting with 17 deer bagged when duck season opened, and he duck hunted with a bow. That was when the limit in Mississippi was a buck a day

Agreed.
I think most people stay within their own limitations and use their own common sense to judge their abilities. I don't think its fair to say a lot of people would see him doing it and go and try it just because they saw him do it. I say that with confidence from bow hunters that I have seen take shots on practice targets out to 50 and 60 yards and seldom practice that far and then tell me they want set up a lot closer than that and feel comfortable at under 30 yards. I get a few that forget that they are shooting at something at 10 yards and use their 20 yd pin and it hits high and we have a heck of a tracking job to do. That happens more often than I see people missing at 30-40 yards ranges. You have to know your own limitations and practice those ranges daily to be good enough to try a shot at something that far.

I have no doubt some can make 80 yard shots, but you cannot control the animal at that range. To each their own, but it seems like a bad idea to me.

Targets will stand still for ever, this comment is right on the money...

Have made the same point many times on here about long range rifle shooting.

My broker has smoked a Muley deer at 93 yards and antelope at 78

He can hit a block target at 120.

I get nervous shooting at a target past 60 yards.

Some people have different skill sets than others.

More power too him. I'm sure he gets to practice more than most of us and does it for a living. I wish I was that good. I tend to keep them 40 or less but not going to knock him for getting it done. One of the few guys on TV I still like watching. Him, T-bone and Nick are some funny dudes.

That's a long shot but very doable with practice. I shot a whitetail doe in Ohio at 53 yrds and was comfortable with it. I was shooting a Bowtech Destroyer 350 with 426grains with my broadhead and bow is set at 73lbs

Yeah helluva shot. I'm sure he was confident in taking the shot. Would like to know if he got a pass through and how far they had to trail.

thats a long shot with a bow i wouldnt do it but hey im not Michael Waddell B-)

I have practiced 60 yard shots and was getting good. I wouldn't take that shot on a deer, on a hog, yes sir. Michael does this for a living and I would hazard a guess he has practiced that yardage time and time again and he may feel comfortable at that yardage.

This.

He ain't got nothing on Tim Wells....

It can be done, but they don't show you all of the bad shots/wounded animals they hit.

Just watch their backyard archery tournament videos. They only nail those shots every so often, and that's under ideal circumstances usually. Flat footed, level ground, no buck fever, etc. But, as stated above the margin of error is significantly increased on an elk. Just my .02

I'm in this camp. I am a 30 yr+ bowhunter.