The new year always comes with expectations. Sometimes unrealistic ones.
Back when I was a new archer I shot fingers on an old Bear recurve bow and then a Bear Whitetail 2 compound. Even with a sight on the compound I wasn't the tight group shooter the release aid guys were. However back then the acceptable accuracy to hunt on some places was 4 out of 5 arrows on a paper plate at 20 yards. Having no lease and no land I hunted a few days leases and had to take this test a few times.
We will start at 20 yards. Target is a paper plate, half inch or so dot in the middle-ish to aim at.
You have to hit it four out of five shots and the first shot has to hit it. (To keep some meaning in the FSC part)
No rubbing or clipping the edge. Solid, arrow point through the plate. The second miss you're done for the day even if you only shoot three arrows. You can shoot it up to four days. But each day you are unsuccessful you move up 3 yards. So if you screw it up today tomorrow shoot from seventeen. Screw that up Tuesday you are at fourteen and so on.
Tie goes to tighter group so measure from dot to arrows that do hit so I have some form of total for a tie breaker should some of you make it difficult to judge.
Briar your young one starts at five and goes down a yard at a time.
I'm sitting on a cart at the ranch so I probably screwed this up some how so let me know where and I'll adjust as needed.
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Back when I was a new archer I shot fingers on an old Bear recurve bow and then a Bear Whitetail 2 compound. Even with a sight on the compound I wasn't the tight group shooter the release aid guys were. However back then the acceptable accuracy to hunt on some places was 4 out of 5 arrows on a paper plate at 20 yards. Having no lease and no land I hunted a few days leases and had to take this test a few times.
We will start at 20 yards. Target is a paper plate, half inch or so dot in the middle-ish to aim at.
You have to hit it four out of five shots and the first shot has to hit it. (To keep some meaning in the FSC part)
No rubbing or clipping the edge. Solid, arrow point through the plate. The second miss you're done for the day even if you only shoot three arrows. You can shoot it up to four days. But each day you are unsuccessful you move up 3 yards. So if you screw it up today tomorrow shoot from seventeen. Screw that up Tuesday you are at fourteen and so on.
Tie goes to tighter group so measure from dot to arrows that do hit so I have some form of total for a tie breaker should some of you make it difficult to judge.
Briar your young one starts at five and goes down a yard at a time.
I'm sitting on a cart at the ranch so I probably screwed this up some how so let me know where and I'll adjust as needed.
Sent from my Nokia XR20 using Tapatalk
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