I was visiting one of our local shops yesterday and saw one of their 3d targets that they were selling off for $30... it was a grazing deer, and it wasn't as shot up as some of their targets I'd seen the last time I shot their course.

Since I'm planning on ramping up my 3d efforts over the next couple years, I decided to snag it. My plan is to grab another four or five when I come across them at all the shops I visit or ask about them at the shoots I'm at, and build my own little mini-3d course out behind my house to practice on daily. I figure I can paint some rebar pieces and make my own stakes, and arbitrarily move them up or back to change up the course every couple days.

I know the very first one will go right across the creek that cuts through my back yard... Below is a pic I took of it when our big ice storm came through a couple months ago. You can see the creek directly behind the little bench I built there, and the woods picks up right after that; my yard stops about 20 yards or so into the woods. There's probably 100 yards or so before the golf course, and it runs lengthwise for 1/4 of a mile or so. By placing the first target out into the woods, I can practice one of my Achilles' heels so far -- judging distance over a chasm like that.



The coyote there in the pic was a present to my 4-year-old from Matt this past hunting trip so he'd have his very own target... It won't become a part of my new course. That's his and his alone.