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One shot, everyone knows the rules!

First shot from 20 today.
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I was shooting really good so I stepped back to 35 yds. Had to put a piece of white cardboard up because I couldn’t see the black dots looking into a darker building. I’m happy with this group at that range shooting instinctive any day.
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There’s starting to be a little more “fun” in the “funstration” again.
 
So my bow is an extremely light bamboo bow and it seems to want to jump around in my hand. I don’t hold a much of a grip on the bow except for lightly dangling my fingers and I’ve noticed that depending on how the bow moves it may or may not affect my shot. I tried a slightly firmer grip where I’m holding my fingers to the back side of bow to keep it from rotating after the shot and my shots straightened right back up.

I have also started trying to be more cognizant of my arrow for left to right alignment. I think I have just fallen out of practice of lining that up while I’ve been micro focused on arrow tuning, release, and grip.

It can be really frustrating to have things you have previously corrected come back up over time and give you problems again. Between the yips and that I was about to lose my mind. Similar to golf, all it takes is one or two pure shots and I’m back all in.

Now that I have maximum confidence in my arrows I’m planning to hang my fix in a tree at 10-15 yards and practice shooting. I think I was probably too high last year. 20-25 ft is steep for 10-15 yards shots. Everyone says that’s too high for traditional bow but I was doing all I could in large open oaks and thin swamp trees to get out of deer eye sight since I lacked cover. I still don’t know how best to address that.
 
gcr0003 said:
So my bow is an extremely light bamboo bow and it seems to want to jump around in my hand. I don’t hold a much of a grip on the bow except for lightly dangling my fingers and I’ve noticed that depending on how the bow moves it may or may not affect my shot. I tried a slightly firmer grip where I’m holding my fingers to the back side of bow to keep it from rotating after the shot and my shots straightened right back up.

I have also started trying to be more cognizant of my arrow for left to right alignment. I think I have just fallen out of practice of lining that up while I’ve been micro focused on arrow tuning, release, and grip.

It can be really frustrating to have things you have previously corrected come back up over time and give you problems again. Between the yips and that I was about to lose my mind. Similar to golf, all it takes is one or two pure shots and I’m back all in.

Now that I have maximum confidence in my arrows I’m planning to hang my fix in a tree at 10-15 yards and practice shooting. I think I was probably too high last year. 20-25 ft is steep for 10-15 yards shots. Everyone says that’s too high for traditional bow but I was doing all I could in large open oaks and thin swamp trees to get out of deer eye sight since I lacked cover. I still don’t know how best to address that.
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If you can put the arrow where you want it to go, I dont think the shot angle really matters all that much. It's purely a mental thing because you are looking at a more narrow cross section if they are close. We still have to put the pointy end in the riblets.
 
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First three from 15 yesterday


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gcr0003 said:
So my bow is an extremely light bamboo bow and it seems to want to jump around in my hand. I don’t hold a much of a grip on the bow except for lightly dangling my fingers and I’ve noticed that depending on how the bow moves it may or may not affect my shot. I tried a slightly firmer grip where I’m holding my fingers to the back side of bow to keep it from rotating after the shot and my shots straightened right back up.

I have also started trying to be more cognizant of my arrow for left to right alignment. I think I have just fallen out of practice of lining that up while I’ve been micro focused on arrow tuning, release, and grip.

It can be really frustrating to have things you have previously corrected come back up over time and give you problems again. Between the yips and that I was about to lose my mind. Similar to golf, all it takes is one or two pure shots and I’m back all in.

Now that I have maximum confidence in my arrows I’m planning to hang my fix in a tree at 10-15 yards and practice shooting. I think I was probably too high last year. 20-25 ft is steep for 10-15 yards shots. Everyone says that’s too high for traditional bow but I was doing all I could in large open oaks and thin swamp trees to get out of deer eye sight since I lacked cover. I still don’t know how best to address that.
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That is a steep angle but if that's where cover and concealment start that's where you will want to be to get shots on calm deer. Practice how you will hunt, I would look closely at your 3d target after shooting from that steep angle and think about what your shots would be hitting on the way through. Try to burn that perfect spot into your brain and then be very aware of how much you can be off by and still be efficiently lethal. If you don't like the angle and room for error that provides, then you may need to figure out some ground setups or scout new areas with better cover in the 15 ft range.
 
BTaylor said:
That is a sweet target!!
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Thanks. Got the idea from this video

Only difference was I brought the image into AutoCAD, created a 1” grid and scaled it to 1”=1’ instead of tracing it on my monitor. It stands 5’ tall at the shoulder and is 8’ long. Ended up getting a damaged piece of plywood from the lumber yard for free so I only have a total cost of $14 for two cans of spray paint.
 
My Glendale buck target is gassed. I’m debating on buying a new core for $80 and just continuing to keep it together with cam straps or upgrading to a nice rhinehart deer target. $80 seems high for a block of foam but so does $250 for a nice target. Anyone have more than one core experience with a Glendale? Thoughts on rhinehart deer?
 
gcr0003 said:
My Glendale buck target is gassed. I’m debating on buying a new core for $80 and just continuing to keep it together with cam straps or upgrading to a nice rhinehart deer target. $80 seems high for a block of foam but so does $250 for a nice target. Anyone have more than one core experience with a Glendale? Thoughts on rhinehart deer?
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What about the replacement filler foam fix? I think @Redbeard has done it and there is a tread somewhere
 
BackSpasm said:
What about the replacement filler foam fix? I think @Redbeard has done it and there is a tread somewhere
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unlike some of the solid targets I don’t have a hole in one spot that can be refilled. Since the core is a cube I have turned it several times on all sides. So the shots through it are in all directions without making a big hole. It’s structurally degraded but I don’t how you would fill it back up without cutting big holes in it to fill it back in. Im not sure if that makes sense. I saw his thread and thought about it but I’m not sure how well it would work. If someone has done this let me know I’m not against trying it.
 
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