RE: Who Practices Year-Round? Is it REALLY Necessary?
 

1. It's not a matter of hate, so much as there are much more things I'd rather do than shoot my bow. I shoot until I feel comfortable to take a deer at my ranges, and typically that doesn't take too long. In the grand scheme of things I'd much rather sit and glass a field, shoot groundhogs, walk the dog, or go fishing than shoot my bow.

2. Come on man, do ya really need to ask why someone enjoys bowhunting? Depending on tags, I only need to shoot 2-5 times a season.


3.The same thing that gives YOU the right to come on here with people who live and breathe HUNTING and do the same.

The people who live and breathe ARCHERY can make all the stupid rules they want for your little games. The people who live and breathe HUNTING will make ours.

Go back to your elistist paper punching, I'll be out in the woods shooting dinner.

RE: Who Practices Year-Round? Is it REALLY Necessary?
 

I'm also a part-timer when it comes to practicing (can I use that word here?;)) with my bow. I consider myself to be a very good shot, despite only shooting for an hour or so about twice a week (on average) from a month prior to season through the end of November. It seems that I'm about middle-of-the-road in my amount of practicing. I have struggled greatly with target panic in recent years. The cure was due in no small part to simply limitting my shooting frequency and duration. If I shot 24/7/365, I would likely be at a MUCH lower level of skill than I am at today. Moderation has been the answer for me.

Also, this may not be the norm, but I actually feel much more focused and poised to make a perfect shot on an actual animal than I am at a target. This shoots a bit of a hole in the arguement "if you can't make a good shot on a target, then how can you hit the mark on a deer?" That's not to say I'm a poor shot at a target or that I condone hunting deer without the ability to hit broad sides of barns.

One more thing:
I disagree with the premise that one must have to have a love affair with shooting a bow in order to "mess with bowhunting". I enjoy shooting my bow. It's not the end-all for me, though. However, I LOVE bowhunting. Bowhunting for deer is what I love to do most of all. When I'm bowhunting I'm actually doing very little shooting. Bowhunting is not all about the shot. The shot is extremely important, and should not be taken lightly, but in the grand scheme of the hunt, the shot itself (IMHO) contributes only a mere instant to an experience that lasts an entire season. The memories last a lifetime. Try to gain that from shooting at targets in your back yard.

RE: Who Practices Year-Round? Is it REALLY Necessary?
 

Frankly, rybohunter, you're one of the ones I'd like to see forced to pass a proficiency test before being allowed to buy archery tags. In fact, I'd like to see states enforce a proficiency requirement. If you can't show proof of shooting in at least one 3D tournament each month for the previous 6 months, then you have to pass a proficiency test.

RE: Who Practices Year-Round? Is it REALLY Necessary?
 

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RE: Who Practices Year-Round? Is it REALLY Necessary?
 

Other than my general opposition to increased regulations of everything in life, I have no fear of taking a proficiency test. I will pass easily, and I wouldn't bother to worry about practicing any harder to do so. While we are at it can we impose a basic deer anatomy and tracking test as well? Those are just as important as being able to hit a deer, is knowing where to hit it and how to find it. I'll pass all of those easily as well.

RE: Who Practices Year-Round? Is it REALLY Necessary?
 

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RE: Who Practices Year-Round? Is it REALLY Necessary?
 

WTF :eek::eek::eek:

Some guys get good quick - and it ain't that hard to shoot em well.

Then hit em in the head they won't go 1 yrd........THATS ETHICS:eek::eek:

LOL..........[&:]

RE: Who Practices Year-Round? Is it REALLY Necessary?
 

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BINGO!!!!

And if you can do it shooting 1 month or 12 months a year what the heck is the Difference??


Its doing what YOU can sleep at night with. If you can truely look in the mirror and anylize you actions and feel good about the decisions you made - thats fine by me. The bid hitch to the whole thing is that "ethics" are like opinions - what is right for you may not be right for me. Neither is more right or more wrong in the grand scheme of things.........just different.

Your way is not the only or even the best way, stop thinking it is.........

RE: Who Practices Year-Round? Is it REALLY Necessary?
 

Well ewolf you've enlightened me. After I finish my steak, from one of my bowkills this past year, of which neither ran more than 50 yds, I'll head right out and practice. I want to be so so ethical. In fact I think I will keep practicing everyday all day thru the season and only hunt the last day, so as I can be sure to have the most ethical of practice under my belt when I take the field.

Thank you Rack, I didn't think this was a hard concept to grasp.