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Ryan_Gill_HuntPrimitive:
Labor day Weekend hunting shot challenge. Try this out to learn how ready you really are for hunting season. Cut out a 5 inch circle and pin it to your target. Take 10 cold shots at this target from 10 yards. Only 10, no more, no less. Only Cold muscle shots. No warm ups, no pushups, just cold muscles just like you would have in your blind or stand waiting for a deer to come by. Step out side, take a shot, collect your arrow and go inside. No practicing in between to keep your muscle warm! Go inside and watch some football and in another hour or so, go out and take one more cold shot on your target and go inside. Repeat this every hour until too dark to shoot, then wake up in the morning and start again. No warm ups! Do this until all 10 shots are taken. If ALL 10 cold shots are inside the circle, make another 5" target and start again at 12 yards and so on until your shots land outside the circle. If ALL your 10 yard shots are not inside this circle, step up to 8 yards and start over. This is a true test of your cold shot accuracy. Feel free to post a picture of your target if you like, however this isn't a competition to see who can shoot the best, the only person you'll cheat is yourself in this game. If you are truly honest with yourself on every shot, you'll learn where your real hunting shot distances are. I am not comfortable shooting a deer at any range that all 10 shots are not inside this circle during practice! Here is my 10 yard test. I am confident at 10 yards, time to step back and start a test at 12yards. (If you think 5" is too small a target, take notice to the next small doe you kill and lay a 5 inch circle on the vitals, you'll be surprised how easy it is to actually make a less than perfect shot in any larger a circle)

burchett.donald:
Should we run around the house 3 times before we shoot to simulate the adrenalin rush? >:D   I really do pay attention to the first arrow I shoot and it definitely is different. I usually shoot one arrow and then pull because I shoot stone and don't want to chance busting an arrow. Not that I'm that good just because of Murphy's Law...It is different than shooting half a dozen in a rhythm. Point taken and enjoyed your videos too...

crooketarrow:
  I do that same thing alot but I don't do the ten thing my bale about 15 yards from my shop.
  Am out at my shop everyday. Thats the first thing I do evey time I go out to my shop. Then every so often I'll walk out a shoot a arrow. I've did it this way for years.
  Another way to see just how good you are is I stump shoot a few times a week. If you think your good shooting across the yards try this. You'll so find out your not so good.

   Ever since I started shooting tradational 30 years ago. I to donald have only shoot one broad headed arrow at a time. Exspecially when I started makeing shoot arrows. Takes to much time to make a arrow to do any different.
 
  PLUS WHO DON'T NEED THE EXTURE WALKING.

koan:
This is a good way to know fer sure. Im gonna give it a try.... Brian

tattoo dave:
That's some good practice right there! Back in the day, when I first got started shooting trad bows, I would shoot one shot everyday. Had an old guy tell me that's how he practiced. By the end of summer, I was consistently grouping them at 20  yards. I should probably start back up doing that. This sounds like a fun challenge. Will get at it in the morning.

Tattoo Dave

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