You hit the nail on the head Arthur P. If you gun hunt you can get away with not practicing until a week before the hunt. A gun is a lot more forgiving than a bow. If you happen to have an errant gut shot with a gun because you jerked the trigger from not practicing you still have a good chance of harvesting the animal. If you gut shoot a deer with a bow, you just made a coyote's job a whole lot easier cause you probably won't find it.