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tanner:
Along the same lines as Pappy and Beadman suggest - I try to focus on varying distance by shooting what I call walk-aways. After gathering all my arrows from the target, I walk about 8 or 10 yds back and shoot for the center of the target. If my arrow gets kill-shot close (4-6 in or so), I walk back to 15-20yds. If not, I take as many shots as I need to make it a kill shot - focusing on trying to feel the shot for that particular distance. I continue this until I have worked my way back to 35 or 40 yds. Some days I'm right on and can hit first-shot kill shots on everything back to 30 or 35. Some days it seems like I stand around all day at 20-25 trying to figure out what new bad habit I've gotten into. In any case, this seems to work really well for me. I'm getting pretty good at feeling how I need to shoot at different distances.

crooketarrow:
   You have a close range weapon learn to set up so your in your ZONE. I shoot all my bucks at 10 to 15 yards. Out of 36 bucks the longest has been 18 yards. I'VE SHOT INTSINTIVE for around 35 years. Like you when I was younger I to want to shoot at those bucks like compounders 30 and 49 yards.
  So I learned to shoot HOWARD HILL style. And this really works at 30 to 50 yards I could easy'ly shoot 3 and 6 inch groups. At 75 I could put them in the end of as bail of hay. But it a long distance way of shooting and after you get back to 20 yards your back to shooting institive. I even kill 3 deer useing his way. All around 40 yards but soon relized that was'nt why I bow hunt.
  Wth time AND RELIZEING THAT WAS THE WAY I WANTED TO HUNT I converted back to total institive.
 IS'NT THE POINT OF BOW HUNTING IS LEARNING TO GET UP CLOSE.
  Plus ANY other form of shooting to be totally a GOOD SHOT you really need a range finded. Unless your going to keep it under 20. Try hitting anything moveing with anything other than instintive. You can't, I can here it now I do it all the time. If you are hitting anything with any consently your shooting instintive and won't admit it.
 

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