Let's practice a hunting situation. If anyone has ever hunted with traditional equipment from a blind, then they know it's "tight", typically requiring us to be all the way toward the back or one side of the blind to draw and shoot. For our scenario, assume you're in a hard-shell blind with narrow vertical "Deerview"-type windows. Say you're after a doe and a shooter shows up, broadside, eating hand corn at 9 yards just out the window to your left. The wind is calm, and you know that when you open the window to shoot, it won't be long until your scent spooks her. Let's say that time will be 10 seconds.
The challenge for this week is to start with bow ready with a nocked arrow at a seated position -- 9 yards from the target (5 for kids), then stand into a crouch and take a step forward to reach an (imaginary) window. Begin counting (1-Mississippi, 2-Mississippi...) as you slowly open the window (3 seconds), then sit back down, draw and shoot an arrow by the 9 second mark. Don't forget that you will likely need to shift your bow with the nocked arrow from your "bow hand" to your other hand to reach for the window without banging it against the side of the blind; and then will need to shift it back into your "bow hand" before shooting.
For the target, just take a piece of 8.5x11 copy paper and draw a vertical line from top to bottom 2" in from each side; then put a 4-1/4" circle a little below the mid-point of the paper, with a dot in the middle. You will be trying to hit closest part of arrow shaft to middle of the center dot and measure for the win. Three days' first-shot tries -- earliest best shot is tie-breaker. Only shots touching or inside the circle count for measure. The lines represent the window-frame -- don't shoot the blind.
Outside the circle could wound the deer -- don't do that either.
Have fun. I realize this calls for some imagination, but I bet you all can figure it out.
Target Pic will be added on phone edit below.
The challenge for this week is to start with bow ready with a nocked arrow at a seated position -- 9 yards from the target (5 for kids), then stand into a crouch and take a step forward to reach an (imaginary) window. Begin counting (1-Mississippi, 2-Mississippi...) as you slowly open the window (3 seconds), then sit back down, draw and shoot an arrow by the 9 second mark. Don't forget that you will likely need to shift your bow with the nocked arrow from your "bow hand" to your other hand to reach for the window without banging it against the side of the blind; and then will need to shift it back into your "bow hand" before shooting.
For the target, just take a piece of 8.5x11 copy paper and draw a vertical line from top to bottom 2" in from each side; then put a 4-1/4" circle a little below the mid-point of the paper, with a dot in the middle. You will be trying to hit closest part of arrow shaft to middle of the center dot and measure for the win. Three days' first-shot tries -- earliest best shot is tie-breaker. Only shots touching or inside the circle count for measure. The lines represent the window-frame -- don't shoot the blind.
Outside the circle could wound the deer -- don't do that either. Have fun. I realize this calls for some imagination, but I bet you all can figure it out.
Target Pic will be added on phone edit below.
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