Stick your target on front of your truck and shoot. That'll learn ya to shoot under pressure.I hear u and totally agree....cant gain anything without experience....small game is fun but dont get me charged up like whitetail and hogs. Maybe after I tag out this season I'll be over the shakes....
Yeah right...who I kidding. I not very good at hunting yet or I got really bad luck or probably combination of the 2.
I shot out to 30 with a keller pendulum sight. Which they no longer make. I was good from the base of the tree out to 30 yards. My son still uses one. I use a Trophy ridge pendulum sight you can lock the sight and it's a moveable single pin sight . Get a good 25 yards on the sight unlock it and it's good from the base of the tree out to 35 yards . My bow speed on my bow now is 278 at 57 pounds
Pendulum sights have always interested me. One of my idols (bob sheppard) uses one. I think i would too if I consistently climbed to a fixed height.
Have you ever tried shooting on a dart or video archery range? This practice does wonders for "shot timing" which is really the issue for most. You are concerned you will not be able to get the shot off in time once the animal is in range which raises anxiety. If you don't want to pay to shoot a few of the dart video archery ranges, you can mimic this by watching hunting videos with shot scenarios only and turning the sound off and practice drawing on these animals as they come in. Don't get caught up in the animal you're hunting either. The African game video sequences are excellent as most of them critters really move in and out quick. Yes, 3D shooting helps with range estimation but in my opinion, shot timing is what gets most people freaked out at the time an animal comes in. Also, don't look at the antlers! Finally, if you don't get breathing a little heavy and feel that tension a little bit, I wouldn't think its fun any more. That's the primal predator coming out of each of us. You can do that with any animal that suddenly becomes your target.
I dont think we have anything like that around here....altleast as far as I know.
It doesn't matter what height you are I shot it at 15 feet and 25 feet up in a tree and it still works. Now my bow shoots 278 now . I alway liked the pendulum sights. I have an HAA a two CBE archery 3d sights sitting in the gun safe.
This may sound weird, but something that helped me get over that (I still get overly excited) as far as a mind trick goes is I picture the buck mouthing my momma and it takes me from school girl giddy to some semblance of keeping it together because now I HAVE to get the job done...nobody mouths my momma
Yards?I haven’t shot my bow since October last year. Unscrewed a 135 Simmons and screwed in a 175 grizzly. Took that arrow and one with a 125gr field point out back and shot each AO separate dots to see the drop.....
Then shot them both at the same dot to check grouping.....
I’ll get it back out in September when it’s time to hunt.
Nice! Good guess too.
Really, have you seen my truck???? How much additional damage could I do?Stick your target on front of your truck and shoot. That'll learn ya to shoot under pressure.
