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Posted: Mon Dec 31st, 2007 03:16 am |
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I practice about 4 hours a week, on 3-D and bag and block targets. Why? To stay on target. Down time between hunts is a good time to shoot and stay on top of your game. If you think about it, pro athletes practice year round....
I hunt hogs year round and do alot with my bow. Turkey season is right around the corner and i plan on taking my limit with my bow. 4 hours a week may not seem like much, but if you practice every week, it's plenty.
4 hours is the least i shoot, most times it is more like 8 or 9.....
How much practicing doe's anyone else do????
Last edited on Mon Dec 31st, 2007 03:18 am by firedawg226
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Posted: Tue Jan 1st, 2008 01:15 am |
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| I try to shoot 3 times a week about 1 1/2 hours every time I practice, or at least 100 shots. I love to shoot my bow.
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Posted: Tue Jan 1st, 2008 03:27 am |
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| I'm lucky if I get to practice 6 months out of the year. I live to far from an indoor range and with the weather here it's almost impossible to shoot during the winter.
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firedawg226
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Posted: Tue Jan 1st, 2008 01:21 pm |
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Adverse weather and high cross winds could make for some interesting shots for sure. Guess you gotta float those shots on the breeze and hope for the best.....
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Posted: Wed Jan 2nd, 2008 03:06 am |
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| I use a little Wyoming windage.
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Posted: Wed Jan 2nd, 2008 05:01 pm |
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Does Wyoming windage come out of a bottle? I saw a show on the v/s or outdoor channel the other day where these two guy's were hunting big horn sheep in the rockies. They were making 60 to 100 yard shots with a bow. Shooting uphill with cross winds through an opening in some trees. The shots they made were impressive.
Where you hunt do you have to make long shots like that?
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brucet
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Posted: Wed Jan 2nd, 2008 10:06 pm |
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I practice shooting my bow during the summer and early fall.My brother inlaw is up from Conn., every summer for the whole summer and I shoot quite abit with him and his 2 sons.One of his son's Anthony jr. shoot his first deer with a bow at the ripe old age of 9 years old. I thought I was doing good at 12years old with a gun
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wyohunter
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Posted: Thu Jan 3rd, 2008 01:37 am |
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firedawg226 wrote: Does Wyoming windage come out of a bottle? I saw a show on the v/s or outdoor channel the other day where these two guy's were hunting big horn sheep in the rockies. They were making 60 to 100 yard shots with a bow. Shooting uphill with cross winds through an opening in some trees. The shots they made were impressive.
Where you hunt do you have to make long shots like that?
I personally would NEVER take a shot that far. I don't like to shoot over 30 yards with my compound and 40 yards with the crossbow. If I want to shoot 100 yards at something I'll pick up my rifle. Even in the broken terrain I hunt in I stay within my comfort zone. MOST of my shots with my rifle are well under 100 yards. I like getting as close as possible to make sure I make the best shot possible. I have lost one deer in the years of bow hunting and it still bothers me.
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brucet
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Posted: Thu Jan 3rd, 2008 02:30 am |
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| I won't shoot over 40 yards with a bow either.I prefer those 10 to 20 yard shoots myself
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Posted: Thu Jan 3rd, 2008 02:12 pm |
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| I practice out to forty yards myself, but like you guy's, i prefer shorter shots. I practice kneeling, standing, sitting on the ground, shooting through trees and high grasses and weeds. Some shots i make through the trees only allows about eight inches between the trees to hit the heart or lungs on my 3-D target. purposely make these tigh shots so when a better shot presents itself or a difficult one, i'm ready.
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wyohunter
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Posted: Fri Jan 4th, 2008 04:10 am |
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| Sounds like a great way to practice.
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brucet
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Posted: Fri Jan 4th, 2008 05:05 pm |
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wyohunter wrote: Sounds like a great way to practice.
I agree sounds like a great way.
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brucet
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Posted: Fri Jan 4th, 2008 05:06 pm |
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During the summer I'll also shoot from my roof top as well.
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Posted: Fri Jan 4th, 2008 09:10 pm |
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brucet wrote: During the summer I'll also shoot from my roof top as well.
Ive tried that, but the roof gets mighty hot. I do shoot, however from the top of a fifteen foot high bank. Works well!!
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Posted: Fri Jan 4th, 2008 11:57 pm |
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| What do you all shoot for arrows.I love those new eastern axis arrows.
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