Danny, did I ever tell ya about the guy I saw at one shoot? He had a little red wagon he pulled around with him. Had a chair, ice chest, bow rack, quiver, tool box, umbrella... He was prepared. Most all the open class guys carry folding chairs and umbrellas. They KNOW they spend most of their time waiting to shoot. Otherwise, why do they carry the chairs?? Then they have the audacity to say everyone else is wrong.
Hey, I've seen that guy!!! Or a few hundred just like him. LOL
I have no problem with what style anybody shoots. If I could shoot a stickbow nearly as well as I can a compound, I would. Simply for the simplicity of it. I am NOT saying compound shooters are evil, or that traditional shooters are. My only complaint is the lack of courtesy that many of the open class shooters display when on the course. I admit that I don't and haven't attended the larger regional or national shoots. Maybe if the purse was a few thousand dollars, I wouldn't have a problem with guys taking so much time to be perfect. But at the local shoots that I once attended, where the 1st place purse was maybe 25 to 50 bucks, I just don't get it. 3-D shoots were supposed to be fun. Some of the best memories I have was on the course. Usually with me, an open class shooter, and a traditional shooter all together in a group. I never begrudged a traditional shooter for having a closer stake, and I often would just shoot for fun and shoot from the open stake. It's when the stakes are so high, that it's just not "FUN" anymore.
I'm sorry if I contributed to the hijacking of this thread. Getting back to it, and the topic of goals, everybody's goal is to shoot a perfect round. Nobody that I know goes to a shoot with the thought that "I only need a 250 score to beat the other guys in my class". If we weren't all trying for a perfect score, what's the point?? With that in mind, the most challenging way to do that is with a stickbow.
I don't get the benefit of more than 1 pin to use to judge how far the animal is or the benefit of putting 1 pin at the top and 1 at the bottom of the kill.
If you think it's so easy, why don't you give it a try? I think you'll see your score drop considerably. And since when was shooting pins an advantage over a magnified scope and adjustable sight that you can set at 42 1/2 yards? We don't just bracket (that would depend also on the speed of the bow) the 10 ring and let er rip. We aim for the 12 ring too, or try to anyway.