My weekends over the summer are mostly booked solid with work/family/social stuff, so I don't have much time to shoot. Summer evenings are when I do my shooting.

However, I have to shoe-horn bow practice into my schedule around whitetail scouting. I definitely place a higher priority on scouting/glassing/planning my fall hunts than I do on practicing the shots.

I get about 3 nights a week before my wife starts to complain, and those nights are generally spent sitting in a field somewhere with a scope in my face. At least once every two weeks, I sacrifice a night afield and spend it shooting the bow. Honestly, I hate shooting my bow. I don't really practice much from the ground - it's mostly hunting simulations - so by the time you drag your stand to the woods, put on a hunting jacket, set the bag up,climb 20', and shoot arrows into the bag, get back down and repeat - you're a sweaty, bug-infested, miserable mess.

Been doing it for 15 years, and it's just point-and-click anymore. Through that 15 years, I've only been through 3 bows, so there isn't much changing going on. This year, however, I will be breaking in a new bow with some sweeping changes in the overall setup. That will command a little extra time and attention. At least once a week.

So, over the course of an average summer, I shoot about once every week or two, usually only 10-20 shots - like I said earlier,80-90% of my free time is spent in the woods. I'd probably shoot more (and scout a LOT more)if I had more time, but I just can't see the point of wasting good field days inside an air-conditioned range shootingat x'sfrom the 20-yard line.