I am a VERY detail focused person. I don't like to leave ANYTHING to chance. Close enough is not in my vocabulary. Good enough is never good enough.

3 years ago when my brothers and I got bows we all shot like crazy. Eventually I was the best shot of the 3 and then my oldest brother was a close second. My older brother had lame equipment that held him back.

My older brother now has my old bow and he has really dedicated the off season to improving his shooting and man he has done a great job. The new bow helped him a ton but the hours of practice is what really paid off.

I consider myself more then good enough to be lethal out to 30-35 yards and practice regularly in my yard with broadheads from a ladder stand in full hunting clothes in all weather conditions. I won't shoot in the woods past 20 yards which I would consider in my slam dunk range. If I miss from 20 and in I will be pretty upset.

My oldest brother has seemingly fallen off the wagon. He has barely shot his bow this year and not much more last year. He just doesn't seem to shoot unless we mention it to him and then he kinda comes along and shoots for a couple minutes and leaves. He gets discouraged and irritable because now he is the worst shot of us 3 and he used to be able to keep up with me and be better then bro 2. He has resorted to moving his sight around CONSTANTLY because he refuses to admit that his skills have eroded and that is what is really to blame.

He came over the other day to shoot and airmailed my bag target twice from 20 yards with fieldpoints!!! Once he settled down and shot a few marginal groups at best he strapped on a broadhead and let her fly. While it wasn't horrible it sure wasn't great either..........couple inches high........couple low.......one left......one right. Just not consistent at all.

I mentioned to him that he was not doing very well and he should have shot more and shouldn't have waited until the last minute. He didn't take this tough love very well and we kinda argued for a little while and he left on not so great terms.

We are all going hunting this weekend (NY Opener) and I'm not trying to be a jerk to him but he really should be better prepared to go hunting. I already know what is gonna happen........like some magical force the deer will be drawn to the guy that is least prepared and we are gonna end up wasting our weekend on our hands and knees looking for blood drops due to a poorly placed shot..........hopefully he will just miss and not wound anything.

I don't know what to do.........he is 40 years old and I can't tell him what to do but man he needs to get his head on straight and stop acting like this is a competition between us 3.

Any thoughts on how I can get his butt in gear before we leave in 4 days??


If not I am just praying that luck is on his side because he is gonna need it when he draws back in a full jacket......up a tree.......in thick woods.......with a live animal in his sights........and all he has to rely on is 20 minutes of shooting field tips in a T-shirt weeks ago.


I am cringing just thinking about it