Last year my brother who is 26 took up archery. He went to 3d shoots over the summer and at the start missed so much and broke so many arrows he only had 1 arrow to finish at one point. At the end of the summer he was almost whooping my butt on the 3d course. I'm talking like scores from 150 to over 300 in one summer on a 40 target course.

Then after only hunting one time last year bowhunting and not seeing anything but turkey took an 11 pointer on opening day of rifle season. Not huge but scores around 110". That is two days of hunting and not even full days and he already scored a bigger deer than i have in my 11 years of hunting.

Then this season he shot a button buck with his bow, shot a doe during rifle season, and took another doe during a managed doe hunt.

My question is has anyone else been outdone by a beginner? I am extremely happy for his accomplishments, but just want to see if others have experienced situations like this?