If your worried about shooting a deer at 50 yards you may as well take a rifle, for your sake and the deer's. Getting super close to the animal is the real thrill with bow hunting, and once you kill a deer that is so close you can hear it chewing it wont even seem like a challenge using a "modern weapon" anymore. Ive only been bow hunting for 4 years (killed 11 deer only one being a buck and a 2.5 year old at that) and since i started Ive only taken a rifle to the stand with me three times or when hunting with my fiance. I have never attempeted a shot over 30 yards most have been 20 or less.