bigcountry, I am glad you take your archery so seriously. Me personally I am past that point and to me its fun. Its a hobby a passion, it keeps me grounded and my mind off thestresses of life. Bills and debts are serious. As far as most people starting shooting groups I agree with most folks do, I did until I learned good form then it just didn't seem to matter. I don't compete, I hunt one shot just like STUMP SHOOTING, heck I feel that 3d shoots are better hunting practice than shooting groups. GMMATs question isdo we think its possible for someone to hunt after only 100 arrows which is a question only he can answer. But looking at his form photos and his group photos doesn't say anything other than he is shooting at his target very well for a trad beginner. But like I said in my other post shooting groups at a target in your backyard in your shorts and sandels doesn't give me an ounce of confidence when it comes to hunting. everytime I go and shooting gophers/rabbits or stumping I find/putmyself in different shooting positions that I may encounter in the field. 99.9% of the time you will only get one shot at your game and I guess I am just not lucky enough to have a gimmie shot like I would in my back yard. What makes you think that just because I stump shoot(practice hunting shots) I don'tuse good form for me I don't feel the need to practice my form everytime I shoot by that I mean after learning good form and shooting lots its burned into me and natural and if I do have a bad release my bow tells me so to say. Remeber when I talk about this as I said in my other post I am speaking as a hunter not a target shooter, I have no desire to be a target shooter or I would do nothing but shoot groups in a controlled situation.
Well, everyone on here played around when kids like that. I am talking serious archery. I knowI had plenty of those kids bow's too, shootin birds and whatever moved. But thats kids play. Thats what kids do. I learned to hone that stuff later. My whole child hood playing around with bows, didn't add up to diddly on what i learned with serious archery later.
PS bigcountry could you please define serious archer for me please?
Bigcountry, please don't take any offence I don't know you or dicredit you I am sure you are a knowledgeable person and obviously been here a long time, I am just giving you my opinions and defending your reply to mine.