Well I can shoot the eye out of a blackbird at 80 paces. And that's a fact becauseI'm on the internet.

In all honesty, if I can consistantly group four inches at 20 yards, I'm doing good.

25 yards group:

I notice I tend to shoot tighter groups out past 20yds, 20 is pretty tight, 30 is less, but 40/50 esp 50 gets tighter, I think its due to increased concentration. I shot some 2" groups at 50. As long as I'm going to hit the vitals at a relative distance, I really don't care how tight the groups are. If im shooting 9" groups at 50 I may rethink that 60 or 70yd shot, but good groups to me is would you have killed the animal? and not probably killed.....heart/double lung vitals.

I generally strive for 1" per 10yds or better (2" at 20yds, 3" at 30yds, etc). Some days it can be 1" at 20 and 30, 2" at 40. Other days its 3" at 20 and gets worse from there! I wish I had the time to practice like I had 20yrs ago. Its just not in the cards these days. "Minute of deer" will have to do!

... Shockwave

I have gotten a little better in the past few months -mostly due to better arrows and better bow tuning. Under 2" at 20 yards is pretty much the norm. I also seem to almost shoot better at distance. Maybe it's a concentration thing - or maybe you follow through better while the arrow is in flight longer.

On a good day at 30yrds, I am grouping within a 2 inch circle. I will try and get that at 40 yrds before this bow season. I think I can do that.
chris

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I knew that was coming.

Just a little perspective about this....

The 9 ring on a Vegas target is 3 inches. Somebody who shoots 3" groups at 20 yards could easily put 2/3 oftheir arrows in the 10 ring (1.5 inches) and 1/3 oftheir arrows in the 9 ring (3 inches).That would equate to a score of 435 on a 450 Vegas round. That's pretty damn good. If you averaged 435, you would have been in the Top 5 of the HNI Indoor League this yearout of 20 people.

Remember, that's shooting THREE inch groups at twenty yards.

Here's the GOOD PART: Most of the people on this thread say they shoot TWO inch groups at twenty yards.

So it stands to reason that most of the people on this thread could EASILY shoot in the 440's on a Vegas 450 round (and do it with BOWHUNTING setups - even more impressive).

So, to all you guys who say you shoot 2" groups at 20 yards, grab a Vegas Target and post your scores! You should DOMINATE our league and give Buckeye a run for the top spot, if you can really do what you SAY you do.....

By the way, the AVERAGE score for our HNI league for all people across all weeks is around 420. That's a little worse than 3" groups at 20 yards.

I wonder how much these groups change with broadheads????

It's not the group size that wins these leagues, its the distance estimation. A 3" group that is 7" above the10 ringdoesn't score very well . . . .