Wapsi Tree Rat
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This is a great shooting tip. How often do you just draw and shoot out in the yard? How often do you have to draw....wait for the shot....and shoot from the stand?
When I was a 20 something "youngster" learning to shoot with my buddies, sometimes the trash talk needed to be settled. We had a chunk of iron with a 2 inch hole in it and we'd shoot through it at 20 yds. First person to miss not only lost, but they also trashed an arrow. Ever see an aluminum arrow hit a 1 inch chunk of steel? Let's just say you're not shooting that stick again! Anyway, it meant something if you missed. Back then $5 for a new arrow was a sizable chunk of your weekend beer and poker money!
We'd also do some stupid stuff like setting our deer target at 100 yds. Lost a few arrows on that game too,
but it was quite incredible how many times we hit that sucker! 7 out of 10ish?There was no question about skill with a bow. We could shoot. Then we'd deer hunt with little or no success from opening day until pheasant season opened up. Late October through Christmas was for pheasant hunting and nothing else. We had no idea what the rut was! Here's the really sad part...we had permission to hunt an 80 acre farm on Otis Rd on the south side of Cedar Rapids. If any of you know this area, you know what I'm talking about. This is prime deer country bordering an apple orchard, the railroad tracks spilling grain from Cargil, the Cedar Valley Nature Preserve and the Cedar River. Yup, 3 years we packed up in Oct to go bird hunting. And as I continue with my ADD rambling, I realize this should be over in the "worst mistake thread". Ha!