I used to practice a lot at 60 yards, and I was pretty darn good. It helped me establish a consistent draw length. But that was at my old club, where we had great big excelsior target butts sitting on pallets. A miss was just a miss. Might lose a field point in the wood, but the arrow would be okay.

At the club where I am now, we've got bag targets hanging on metal stands. It's amazing how often my arrows hit the 2" wide steel frames. There is no hope for the arrow then. They are always destroyed. It got to the point Isimply couldn't afford to practice at long range any more. And now I shoot terrible.[&o]

I'm still a great believer in long range practice though.