Do you take a practice Shot in the stand?
06-23-2005, 10:39 AM
#11
Typical Buck
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: VA
Posts: 687
RE: Do you take a practice Shot in the stand?
only if something is amiss, or I am about ready to get down, squirrel is in season and one has been bugging me. I should've done a practice shot after my bow came off the pull rope this past season. about five mins left in the day and a good size doe is coming my way, of course she is taking her sweet time. finally she gives me a beautiful broadside shot at like ten yards. she mule kicks and disappears at the shot. the arrow STINKS. later I found out that the fall knocked the sights way left, causing me to shoot way left. I got lucky and she didn't go far suffering a mortal liver and one lung hit.
06-23-2005, 10:39 AM
#12
Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Ocean Springs, MS
Posts: 4,103
RE: Do you take a practice Shot in the stand?
I do not take practice shots from my stand. I will practice the day before. If I did take practice shots and miss, it would ruin my hunt. I would be wondering if my sight was knocked around on the trip up.
06-23-2005, 11:01 AM
#14
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Texas and Arkansas
Posts: 1,496
RE: Do you take a practice Shot in the stand?
ORIGINAL: hoyt3
only if something is amiss, or I am about ready to get down, squirrel is in season and one has been bugging me. I should've done a practice shot after my bow came off the pull rope this past season. about five mins left in the day and a good size doe is coming my way, of course she is taking her sweet time. finally she gives me a beautiful broadside shot at like ten yards. she mule kicks and disappears at the shot. the arrow STINKS. later I found out that the fall knocked the sights way left, causing me to shoot way left. I got lucky and she didn't go far suffering a mortal liver and one lung hit.
only if something is amiss, or I am about ready to get down, squirrel is in season and one has been bugging me. I should've done a practice shot after my bow came off the pull rope this past season. about five mins left in the day and a good size doe is coming my way, of course she is taking her sweet time. finally she gives me a beautiful broadside shot at like ten yards. she mule kicks and disappears at the shot. the arrow STINKS. later I found out that the fall knocked the sights way left, causing me to shoot way left. I got lucky and she didn't go far suffering a mortal liver and one lung hit.
06-23-2005, 11:26 AM
#15
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: mansfield pa USA
Posts: 4
RE: Do you take a practice Shot in the stand?
Just as an added attraction, put a small amount of whatever scent you may be using on the fletching to give another source of attraction, and cover your human scent on the arrow you now put right at a deer's nose level.!! I have on occasion taken a target arrow in my quiver, picked out an old stump or very visible leaf at what I think isa set distance and then used the shot to determine distance and judgement.
06-23-2005, 03:49 PM
#18
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Miami, Florida
Posts: 160
RE: Do you take a practice Shot in the stand?
Nope. No matter how hard you try, you are going to leave some of you on the arrow, and then put it within shooting distance of you stand for deer to smell when they get close.
06-23-2005, 07:00 PM
#20
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Lehigh County PA USA
Posts: 12,157
RE: Do you take a practice Shot in the stand?
After I set up a stand location in the summer I take some practice shots out of it at a foam block I carry with me into the woods. I do not think I have ever taken any practice shots from a stand while I was hunting out of it.