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Main Discussion Area => Shooting and Hunting => Topic started by: jeffp51 on June 12, 2020, 10:13:50 pm

Title: if I have to be a bad shot. . .
Post by: jeffp51 on June 12, 2020, 10:13:50 pm: . . .why do I have to be so consistently bad? This was at 20 yards. The second arrow hit the first pretty straight on and right down the center. All that work down the tubes.
Title: Re: if I have to be a bad shot. . .
Post by: Pat B on June 12, 2020, 10:50:38 pm: That's one reason I don't shoot groups. I pick a different spot for each arrow.
Title: Re: if I have to be a bad shot. . .
Post by: jeffp51 on June 12, 2020, 11:48:03 pm: I was aiming a foot higher. The first one missed low, then so did the second. Missed badly both times in exactly the same way.
Title: Re: if I have to be a bad shot. . .
Post by: Hawkdancer on June 12, 2020, 11:57:59 pm: Crap,Colonel, I forgot to change my elevation when we moved back! Good group, though -just 10" below the bullseye! :fp (lol)
Hawkdancer
Title: Re: if I have to be a bad shot. . .
Post by: Ricardovanleeuwen on June 14, 2020, 01:00:13 pm: Wauw, is your name Robin? ;D
Title: Re: if I have to be a bad shot. . .
Post by: Pappy on June 14, 2020, 02:00:53 pm: Ya I hate it when that happens, really hate it when it was by accident. :)
Pappy
Title: Re: if I have to be a bad shot. . .
Post by: HH~ on June 18, 2020, 07:25:36 am: Dont mind it so much when its on a 3D. Only , if its my arra that goes in last.

HH~
Title: Re: if I have to be a bad shot. . .
Post by: JW_Halverson on June 20, 2020, 01:47:05 pm: LOL! We have a great contender for the best humble-brag of 2020!

In almost 20 years of this, I have yet to do this. Partially because I hate to shoot and partially because I shoot like I hate to shoot. I'm happy when I can just find most of my arrows!
Title: Re: if I have to be a bad shot. . .
Post by: Hawkdancer on July 02, 2020, 12:44:45 am: That's why my new backstop is going to be 4' x 8'! (SH) :NN!
Hawkdancer
Title: Re: if I have to be a bad shot. . .
Post by: Tommy D on July 22, 2020, 12:19:16 am: I do this quite often (not the Robin Hood) but put a bad shot next to another bad shot. For me it happens when at the last moment I loose concentration on what I am aiming at and my subconscious must suddenly focus on the bright shiny fletches in the target and I suspect the rest sort of happens on “instinct”...
Title: Re: if I have to be a bad shot. . .
Post by: Deerhunter21 on July 27, 2020, 07:13:17 pm: Quote from: JW_Halverson on June 20, 2020, 01:47:05 pm
In almost 20 years of this, I have yet to do this. Partially because I hate to shoot and partially because I shoot like I hate to shoot. I'm happy when I can just find most of my arrows!

i prolly got 15 mulching th grass :-[
Title: Re: if I have to be a bad shot. . .
Post by: Hawkdancer on July 27, 2020, 11:16:27 pm: Russell,
You got to rake the grass perpendicular to the line of fire! >:D (SH) (lol) :fp. I still got one buried on the 3D Range!
Hawkdancer
Title: Re: if I have to be a bad shot. . .
Post by: WhistlingBadger on July 28, 2020, 07:48:27 am: Russell, I shoot through the winter, and usually find one or two the first time I mow in the spring. As Jeff Foxworthy said, "If you've ever mowed your grass and found a car...you might be a redneck." Guess the same goes for arrows.

Jeff, thanks for the laugh. Ever seen the site despair dot com? They have some hillarious de-motivational posters. Your experience reminded me of this one.
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Title: Re: if I have to be a bad shot. . .
Post by: Yooper Bowyer on August 21, 2020, 01:40:22 pm: Ouch...

That has happened to me a few times at close range, but the damage is limited when I use plastic knocks. All you have to do is cut away the broken plastic and glue on a new knock. Splicing on wooden knocks has sometimes worked too.