Sometimes in real hunting situations, you're faced with plenty of time to shoot an animal who has no idea you're there. So, it should be simple enough to just shoot and hit the bullseye, right? What if you're not sure how the animal is exactly situated and there is no obvious "crease" or shoulder and the angle is awkward. The challenge is pinpoint target acquisition when there is nothing evident to shoot at.
For this week's challenge, get a plain piece of 8.5x11 paper. From 15 yards, shoot one arrow at a point halfway up, two-thirds of the way to the right of a landscape-oriented blank piece of copy paper. After the shot, see how you did by folding the paper in half lengthwise, then in thirds. Measure the nearest edge of your arrow's hole to the intersection of the mid-point and 2/3rds right-hand fold. Shortest distance from arrow to intersection wins next week's call. Good luck.
BTW, This is not at all theoretical; it's simply the closest I can come to conveying the thought process I personally used in making a downward, hard-quartering-away shot on a big hog today.
For this week's challenge, get a plain piece of 8.5x11 paper. From 15 yards, shoot one arrow at a point halfway up, two-thirds of the way to the right of a landscape-oriented blank piece of copy paper. After the shot, see how you did by folding the paper in half lengthwise, then in thirds. Measure the nearest edge of your arrow's hole to the intersection of the mid-point and 2/3rds right-hand fold. Shortest distance from arrow to intersection wins next week's call. Good luck.
BTW, This is not at all theoretical; it's simply the closest I can come to conveying the thought process I personally used in making a downward, hard-quartering-away shot on a big hog today.
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