Successful First Shots
 

hi , finally got the shoot my new rebel, tons of fun, and many good shots, still getting the hang of it, but all shots made it to the target so im happy, just made a few more arrows so more fun tomarrow,, now im hooked!!!
mike

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Stump shooting and squirrel hunting are a great time.
Fix up some blunts and give it a try.

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o i got stumps heheh,, how hard is that on ceder arrows, only th efirst day haha, more practice, and now i have 6 arrows to shoots,
mike

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Make sure the stumps are fairly rotted.

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so thats the trick haha, dunno about those,, ill stick to my big faom target for now
mike

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well go in a few more shots last night, a good 24 shots,, unfortuneatly the erg to keep shotting got to me, and the 24th shoot went just left of the target, it was almost dark and after no luck finding the lost arrow i waited till this morning,, i decided to stand where i shot from a picture that missed, walked out dug my fingers under the grass and waht ya know that it was ,, th efeathers seemed to be ok now after drying, will see how it goes tomarrow

mike
ps got one dead center on the target, now to just figure out how i did that....

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LOL! What BobCo said... I've busted more than a few arrows on stumps that were not as rotted as I thought!

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have fun

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some of them stumps are P&Y size-
LOL

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i have pics of my 3/3 center shot tonight, lucky shots not skill.. hahah file size to big for here
http://www.tradtalk.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=2863&d=1157674930

http://www.tradtalk.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=2864&d=1157674930

mike

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I read a book by Brian Sorrells, Introduction to traditional archery. I don't agree with some he talks about, but he had a program in there that I believe will get you shooting the best the fastest. Bad part is its tedious and most archers (myself) can't control themselves to stick to it.

Bascially he gets you at 5ft, and says, don't move back until you have at least 500 arrows within a 2" circle, and be able to put them in the 2" circle 9 out of 10 times. And only one arrow, keep the target clean. Then gets you to move back to 10ft, same deal 2" circle at least 500 in the circle. Then opens you up to 20ft and 4" circle same deal. But maybe 3 arrows due to the distance. You do this until you get back to 20 yards (I think) and then in the end, you mix all of the distances up, and keep that up until you can put 9 out of 10 arrows in 4" circle 20 ft and beyond and 2" circle under 10ft. Then he suggest moving on to shootin different positions. And before every practice perform some closed eye shots to concentrate on form.

If a person could restrain himself to follow this program, I bet he would shoot better faster. I myself didn't contain myself and went from 5 yards straight to 25yards. And have been stuck with medocre shooting for over 3 months now.

Now I have pulled something and can't do much for a while.

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Man that is some tough routine bigcountry.

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I never said I followed it, but believe if a guy did he could possibly be ready to hunt in half the time its took me to get where I am at.

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Me either. ;)