RE: Anyone up for the 1,000 shot challenge this year?
600 shots now and 3 misses. Guess I'm getting a bit careless. On one of these misses I used the wrong pin (dummy!). I'll have to bear down and concentrate for the last 400 shots and see if I can make all of them count. I would really encourage you guys to get out and shoot more shots. For me it really makes me know my weapon and teaches me what I should look out for in a hunting situation (and it's a lot of fun). Shooting this much makes me appreciate how easy it is to work on my recurve crossbow (Horton Stag) because every 400 shots or so I need to reserve my string. It just takes 10 minutes. My buddy with a compound crossbow hasn't shot it for months because we haven't had time to take it apart (we're a bit scared to without a press) and replace some nylon washers that are broken. Anyway, I guess that may be a reason for compound crossbowers not to shoot a lot (being difficult to restring or reserve the string) but if you can, shoot lots!! It willgive you that extra confidence in your equipment when you need to takea tricky shot or your heart is going 1000 bpm. This is also a good argument if someone says that learning a crossbow is too easy. I don't know many compound shooters that practice shoot a thousand shots before going hunting with their bow. Even though my crossbow was fairly accurate right out of the box, it took several hundred shots (just like it would with a compound) for me to feel comfortable with its performance, trajectory, etc. and for me to get my shooting form down so that It's consistent. So,
Get out and shoot!!!...if you can :^)
I'm hoping to hunt pronghorn in Wyoming in Aug so I have just 2 months more practice before hunting. I'm still shooting the same bolt for all my practice shots. Hope I can use it to deflate a goats lungs in Aug. It's holding up well so far.