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Shoot to Eat Challenge

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Just started doing a fun challenge today to help evaluate how ready I am for deer season, posted by Sorinex Outdoors here a few days ago.
Starting August 1st, for the entire month, every day:
  • Choose a Distance that is realistic to your hunting scenario.
  • Shoot for the smallest target that challenges your aim (could be as big as deer vitals, or smaller if you need a challenge)
  • Shoot one cold shot, ideally fresh out of bed, as early in the day as possible. If you hit, you eat breakfast. If you miss, you skip it.
  • Shoot Every Day. No missed days.
  • Be accountable. Share it with friends either on social media or via text. No fudging for the gram, just the naked truth.
  • Increase distance by 1yd per day, or reduce target size every 5th day, if you are capped on shooting distance.
  • As always this is supposed to be fun, and challenging. Keep the focus on your technique, your hunt, and your aim. Focus, aim true, and shoot to eat.
Here's my photo for today. This was at 15 with my hill style longbow. The wood arrows I'm shooting are a bit stiff and I'll need to get something else tuned up for season, but the miss was my fault.S2E-01Aug2023.jpg
 
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Day 2. We eat. I moved in to about 12 yds and made a much better shot. About 2" high but almost dead on left/right. I did some work yesterday and I think I learned some things in practice yesterday that helped me lock in and make a better shot today. Forgot to take a target picture so today you get a screenshot of a video.

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Evening first shot from 25. It’s still pretty dark in the morning when I leave for work and too hot to not get sweated up even shooting one shot. After that shot I moved up to 20 and proceeded to suck for about the next 8 shots before I got my crap together and strung 10 or so really strong shots.


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One shot, everyone knows the rules!

Well the only rule is: take one shot in the morning before work or daily activities or after work to get ready for hunting season to open! Our hunting season doesn’t start until October 1st for part of the state and October 15th for much of the rest. I thought I’d start a little thread where...
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First shot this morning at an apple in the yard at about 14 yards. It's hard to tell from the angle but the arrow went right under the apple, so I call that a hit. One slice of bacon and a pot of coffee please, lol.

By the way, I tried something new yesterday morning and it really helped me out. Jason Samkowiak posted a video (167) Working Your Bow Arm And Release At The Same Time - YouTube a couple of days ago about pushing your bow arm out and letting that trigger the release. Well. it really helped with my dropping the bow arm and plucking the string.
 

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The only arrow that counted this morning went wide. I’m going to keep working with the longbow in hopes of being ready but also will dust off the recurve I case I need it.
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The only arrow that counted this morning went wide. I’m going to keep working with the longbow in hopes of being ready but also will dust off the recurve I case I need it.
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You've certainly challenged yourself with an ASL. Shooting a 'curve is almost cheating. :blush:. Most don't realize how tough you've made it for yourself.
 
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