Good point, nc... Believe it or not, as I approach my elk trip, I'm shooting LESS than I was all summer. I've went from shooting hundreds and hundreds of arrows a week to now just walking out with a handful of arrows and taking several minutes between each. My form is ingrained after so much shooting this year, so what I'm doing these last couple days is just concentrating on shooting one arrow at a time.

Last night, I only took one broadhead-tipped arrow outside with me. I was shooting from 50, so I'd have to shoot, walk all the way to the target, walk all the way back, and shoot again. To me, this does a couple things: (Besides walking 100 yards at a time with each shot and getting that much more excersice... ) It forces me to slow down and concentrate on each shot, and 2) or more importantly -- I don't want to have to walk 100 yards for a crappily released arrow so I really make sure my sight picture is perfect before firing the arrow.

I believe it was either Randy Ulmer or Bill Winke who wrote a column a few years ago about keeping just one arrow propped up beside their back door. Once a day, they would grab it and step out onto the back porch and shoot at the target in the back yard.