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TAC Events- Recommend or Not???

I’m shooting 7 Springs (~2hr drive for me) and Big Sky this year. I built some 360-ish grain arrows for it to stretch my sight tape out as far as I can. I have a Tetra RYZ and the top pin can get me out to 125 before vane clearance issues and the bottom pin can get me out to 140. I have Bohning Air vanes on now, they are tiny little things so it helps with clearance.

Until this past weekend I hadn’t been able to get anywhere to shoot past 80 yards, but went to a 3D course on Saturday that had a 100 yard shot on a buffalo and several others 70+ yards. After that, I feel really good about my equipment.
 

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Glad you’re all dialed in. I’m behind the 8 ball right now. I can do good to 40 but have to stretch that out for the rest of this month I can’t believe it’s almost time!!!!
 
Bigterp said:
I gotta get after it, last shot was for the freezer Jan 30th……..
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That’s a good last shot to have at least!

I started working on my setup as soon as the season closed. Tried out a few different point weights, four different types of vanes, and a straight vs helical fletch. I’m really happy with how it ended up at this point.

I’m doing 7 Springs and Big Sky, so as soon as Big Sky is over it’s back to work on tuning for my hunting arrows.

I will say, all the shooting I’ve been doing at 60-100 yards has made 20-40 yards seem boringly easy.
 
Went to some public land I hunt occasionally that has a big field behind a DNR office building to do some long range practice. I finally shot out to 70 yards yesterday. Never been past 60 so that was a first for me. At 70 everything stayed inside an elk shaped vital area. We'll see what happens at 90 yards Thursday but I shouldn't lose too many arrows. I might build a few more just in case though :tearsofjoy:
 
I’m excited but also nervous. I’ve been practicing at 60 and 90 but man I can hardly even see the target!! I don’t think either course I managed to sign up for has anything beyond 90 but who knows. What are you guys using to carry your arrows and all your junk?
 
My groups at 60 weren’t too awful but 90 ? I mean I hit the target but it wasn’t a 3d target :tearsofjoy: :tearsofjoy:
 
I was thinking about sticking an arrow tube in my pop up…… I have a waist holder for 3d but don’t know that I want to lug that around all day & not have water……
 
I'm just using a kifaru hip quiver at 7 springs. The terrain isn't too challenging that it will get in the way. I'd imagine the more mountainous terrain out west might make it more annoying.
The guy I paired up with last year had one and it worked just fine. I did arrows in a poster tube sticking out of my backpack and it was ok too.
 
Bigterp said:
I was thinking about sticking an arrow tube in my pop up…… I have a waist holder for 3d but don’t know that I want to lug that around all day & not have water……
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Bigterp said:
I was thinking about sticking an arrow tube in my pop up…… I have a waist holder for 3d but don’t know that I want to lug that around all day & not have water……
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I have a piece of PVC pipe I put in the bottle pocket of my Popup, so the same concept. Works well, I hate walking very far with my hip quiver on.
 
woodsdog2 said:
I’m excited but also nervous. I’ve been practicing at 60 and 90 but man I can hardly even see the target!! I don’t think either course I managed to sign up for has anything beyond 90 but who knows. What are you guys using to carry your arrows and all your junk?
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I shot the black rifle course the average yardage was 55-65 but the shots that were 80 yards were way easier than the shots at 50 m. They really get you with hiding the targets and making you shoot through nasty stuff! But even worst than that were the footings there was no shooting while standing flat and steady. I ran my quiver on my bow and my chest rig with binos range finder and some water. My buddy brought a pack so I stuffed 6 arrows in his quiver tube haha
 
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