Do you practice in low light?
02-05-2002, 11:32 PM
#21
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Oh USA
Posts: 1,584
RE: Do you practice in low light?
I was the first to enter the indoor range I shoot at & turned on the lights. I didn't realize there were some I hadn't turned on right over the butts. It seemed pretty dim but I shot anyways. Some other people came in & turned on the rest of the lights & my groups opened up. I agree, I was concentrating harder when it was harder to see. I'll do more of it on purpose now.
02-07-2002, 03:47 AM
#24
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: New Stanton PA USA
Posts: 2,213
RE: Do you practice in low light?
I do practice under low light conditions, but, I only stay in the stand that long if I`m pinned down. If it is too dark to catch it on camera, I am usually packing it in. That is normally the end of legal shooting time where I hunt, anyhow.
02-07-2002, 09:20 AM
#25
Typical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: California
Posts: 600
RE: Do you practice in low light?
Yep. After reading about someone else doing this, I even lite a candle and set it in front of the target butt in the pitch black and shoot at the flame from 15-20 paces. Of course, I'd never take a shot at live game in those conditions, but it sure does raise the level of concentration some. <img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle>
02-07-2002, 02:49 PM
#26
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Palmyra PA USA
Posts: 292
RE: Do you practice in low light?
Yep, I practice when I can, whether that's during high noon or the jet blackness of a new moon at midnight. Shooting stickbows, I have no sights to struggle seeing, just the target. There's no greater practice for instinctive shooting than when it's so dark you can't see the end of the arrow on your bow. A candle flame at 20 yards makes a great target. :^)
