ztrumble
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Okay it's time to admit it. Been putting it off since the season ended back in December.
I missed six times this year and made two really bad hits. All with my bow.
I have a range set up in my basement and backyard. Most days rain or shine throughout the year I shoot. I love to shoot. I shoot short-range and long-range.
I have followed a lot of school of nock lessons and learned a lot from the ranch fairy this past year.
I love this hobby and I spend so much time tinkering with gear adjusting gear and just plain shooting.
I love the whole sport, not just the hunting.
And I have never had that many misses!
Some of these were absolute chip shots. Small doe coming in right at 15 yards under my ladder stand completely unaware. Total flinger over-the-shoulder. Reload, shoot again, complete miss again
I did connect with my largest bow buck to date, but it was a total gut shot and if I hadn't had a ranch fairy special loaded I'm not sure I would have recovered him. Had to give him 12 hrs + and the coyotes ate him before I got back to him.
This was my first year actually hunting with heavy ranch fairy arrows. Things were shooting good at targets. All of my tuning went well. I was very happy with arrow flight.
Previous years I tend to be pretty solid on the One-Shot kill. Last year I made a perfect heart shot on my largest buck up until that point.
I have never missed completely so many times.
Any thoughts as to where I should start? Something is amiss. Either I'm experiencing way more Buck Fever than I ever thought I had, or something is really off with my form/equipment.
I did accidentally dry fired bow last summer, and had to rebuild it. I do feel like it makes a little more noise than it used to. Seems like maybe the cam has a little rattle.
Could that much extra noise be causing all of these dear to jump me that bad? Maybe that in combination with a much heavier Arrow this year?
On nights when I missed I would come back to the range in my yard and fire a perfect shot at equal distance into a target. It was a frustrating season.
I missed six times this year and made two really bad hits. All with my bow.
I have a range set up in my basement and backyard. Most days rain or shine throughout the year I shoot. I love to shoot. I shoot short-range and long-range.
I have followed a lot of school of nock lessons and learned a lot from the ranch fairy this past year.
I love this hobby and I spend so much time tinkering with gear adjusting gear and just plain shooting.
I love the whole sport, not just the hunting.
And I have never had that many misses!
Some of these were absolute chip shots. Small doe coming in right at 15 yards under my ladder stand completely unaware. Total flinger over-the-shoulder. Reload, shoot again, complete miss again
I did connect with my largest bow buck to date, but it was a total gut shot and if I hadn't had a ranch fairy special loaded I'm not sure I would have recovered him. Had to give him 12 hrs + and the coyotes ate him before I got back to him.
This was my first year actually hunting with heavy ranch fairy arrows. Things were shooting good at targets. All of my tuning went well. I was very happy with arrow flight.
Previous years I tend to be pretty solid on the One-Shot kill. Last year I made a perfect heart shot on my largest buck up until that point.
I have never missed completely so many times.
Any thoughts as to where I should start? Something is amiss. Either I'm experiencing way more Buck Fever than I ever thought I had, or something is really off with my form/equipment.
I did accidentally dry fired bow last summer, and had to rebuild it. I do feel like it makes a little more noise than it used to. Seems like maybe the cam has a little rattle.
Could that much extra noise be causing all of these dear to jump me that bad? Maybe that in combination with a much heavier Arrow this year?
On nights when I missed I would come back to the range in my yard and fire a perfect shot at equal distance into a target. It was a frustrating season.