Traditional FSC Week 33

[tradtiger]

Animals we hunt -- especially pigs-- are often obscured by cover. Rick's call a couple of weeks ago got me thinking about setting up an obstruction shot, using a couple of sticks to create three zones for a 3-shot challenge.

I wired the sticks together and stuck them into the ground, placing a dot in the approximate middle of zones numbered 1, 2, and 3. Take the first three shots of a day targeting the dots in the numbered order from 12 yards (6 for kiddos) using three different stances.

If sticks are not available or this set-up is not do-able, you can draw a similar pattern with about 3/4"-1" wide "branches" to define the zones. Hitting/touching a line nearest a zone counts as in the zone.

If using real sticks and hitting one, the arrow counts as a hit in the adjacent zone if it also sticks in target.

Winner will be the one with the most "hits" on the paper and in the correct respective zones on a single given day. Four days' tries allowed. As a tie-breaker, measure a day's one closest arrow to the intended dot -- nearest edge of shaft to center of dot.

Good luck, and have fun y'all!


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[tradtiger]

Feel free to use field points or broadheads for this. It's supposed to be a hunting shot through a small window to the vitals of a game animal.

[tradtiger]

Secured sticks better to target using U-shaped pieces of wire stuck into block face and one longer piece tied off to top handle.


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[tradtiger]

My Day 1: 1 hit, sitting. on the second arrow and shot through the limb with 2-blade (300-grain Tuffhead) broadhead.

Forgot to measure until I removed arrow, but it was about 1-7/8" below dot.

First shot, standing was in #2 zone.
Third shot, one knee, was off paper left.

Picture sequence: Shot 2 (thru limb), then measure; Shot 1 ( left, in zone 2); then Shot 3 (off paper, left)


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[tradtiger]

Pro Tip regarding set-up -- now that I've actually shot this: use thicker wire to secure limbs to target because WHEN --not if-- you shoot through a limb, it's hard not to mess up the limb placement when removing arrows.

[DRT]

[emoji23]
Draws your eye when you are trying to focus away from the limb.
But they are some dang tough broadheads.

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[Briar Friar]

Fun target Ellis! Ill get in tomorrow.

[TXRebel]

Standing



Kneeling one knee



Sitting

[Briar Friar]

I DQd today. I had a brain fart when my lighted nock arrow fell off my string and i vestigated the nock and neglected my positioning. 2 and 3 were from the seated. First shots on these heads and these full length 400 shafts. 300 lit nock, 175plus75brass, 250 head(s). 58@28. My bottom riser tape mark is my general relative 15yd elevation.

[tradtiger]

Nice two out of three, Reb! And that second shot looks around 3/8" from the dot.

[Briar Friar]

Please pardon the lapse. TBH interweb didnt favor this load...I had to adjust my www hokey pokey. Kinda like tuning.

[Briar Friar]

CCW...Stand Sit Kneel.

[tradtiger]

Way to go, Briar, with two out of three!

[Briar Friar]

Thanks TT.
Yesterday... Shot 1 was about 1 1/2” measure.

Today... Shot 1 was about 2” measure.

[tradtiger]

My Day 2: used fieldtips this time; got 2 out of 3.
Shot 1, standing, low in zone 2
Shot 2, one knee, a hit (no measure)
Shot 3, sitting, a hit barely...



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