Shooting with broadheads make you a better shot?
#11
RE: Shooting with broadheads make you a better shot?
I don't believe shooting with broadheads will make you a better shot. It will, however, give you extreme confidence in the heads you are shooting.
I for one, can't afford to shoot broadheads all the time. I shoot field points, because, well, that's what they are for, practicing. Now, when season gets close and I am doing all of my final tuning, I will shoot them a couple of times just to gain that confidence that they are going to hit where I am aiming. Then, I sharpen them back up, put them in the quiver, and the next time I shoot them is at a deer.
I for one, can't afford to shoot broadheads all the time. I shoot field points, because, well, that's what they are for, practicing. Now, when season gets close and I am doing all of my final tuning, I will shoot them a couple of times just to gain that confidence that they are going to hit where I am aiming. Then, I sharpen them back up, put them in the quiver, and the next time I shoot them is at a deer.
#12
RE: Shooting with broadheads make you a better shot?
ORIGINAL: bigbulls
However it does tend to make a person "pay attention" more to exactly what they are doing when they are shooting broadheads.
However it does tend to make a person "pay attention" more to exactly what they are doing when they are shooting broadheads.
ORIGINAL: mobowhuntr
I don't believe shooting with broadheads will make you a better shot. It will, however, give you extreme confidence in the heads you are shooting.
I don't believe shooting with broadheads will make you a better shot. It will, however, give you extreme confidence in the heads you are shooting.
#15
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: NY
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RE: Shooting with broadheads make you a better shot?
ORIGINAL: Paul L Mohr
I don't understand why anyone would practice with broad heads once thier bow was tuned? It is more dangerous and you are messing up expensive tips.
I don't understand why anyone would practice with broad heads once thier bow was tuned? It is more dangerous and you are messing up expensive tips.
Grouping broad heads is going to get very expensive very fast.
Even if you shoot multiple spots it will just ruin your target faster.
I wil add that I shoot hundreds of arrows a week, if not a day. I couldn't imagine doing all that shooting with a broad head. I could ruin a 3-D target in a day if I practiced that way.
Now if you don't practice very often, then I guess using fixed blades would work OK. I think you would be better off just shooting more though.
Paul
Paul
#16
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: NY
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RE: Shooting with broadheads make you a better shot?
As others have said I firmly believe that confidence is a HUGE benefit to have in your tool box. I shoot my Stingers right up to the night before I hunt...........then I replace the blades and I have absolutely zero anxiety about what will happen when I release that head.......I have been shooting them for months so it's old news man.
Anyone ever see someone get psyched out by a broadhead?? I have and it is ugly. I have seen guys that shoot field tips great and then when they strap on a BH all the sudden they start shooting visably different like they feel they have to do something different now because the BH is on the arrow.
Shoot broadheads as much as possible IMO and they will become normal routine.
Anyone ever see someone get psyched out by a broadhead?? I have and it is ugly. I have seen guys that shoot field tips great and then when they strap on a BH all the sudden they start shooting visably different like they feel they have to do something different now because the BH is on the arrow.
Shoot broadheads as much as possible IMO and they will become normal routine.
#18
Join Date: Feb 2003
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RE: Shooting with broadheads make you a better shot?
Well for starters it wasn't a personal attack against you, so that response really wasn't needed. I said it was simply my opinion and nothing more. If you want to shoot all your arrows with broad heads, feel free. But in my opinion it just isn't needed. I don't do it and I have no problem shooting fixed blades in the field. I do agree that you should practice the way you hunt before you actually hunt. And than includes using a 3-d target, not a square foam target that looks nothing like a deer.
By the way, I have ruined one of the yellow jackets using field points. I find it hard to believe you shoot that much with fixed blades and it has lasted you two years.
If for some reason you mentally need to shoot fixed blades all the time to keep from getting psyched out, then by all means do it. However from a physical stand point it really doesn't need to be done. I know very few people that do this (as a matter of fact you are one of the two or three I have seen that do) and none of them that practice have any trouble killing deer. The ones that have trouble are the guys that get thier bows out a week before the season and practice for a day thinking that hitting a pie plate at 20 yards is good enough.
Paul
By the way, I have ruined one of the yellow jackets using field points. I find it hard to believe you shoot that much with fixed blades and it has lasted you two years.
If for some reason you mentally need to shoot fixed blades all the time to keep from getting psyched out, then by all means do it. However from a physical stand point it really doesn't need to be done. I know very few people that do this (as a matter of fact you are one of the two or three I have seen that do) and none of them that practice have any trouble killing deer. The ones that have trouble are the guys that get thier bows out a week before the season and practice for a day thinking that hitting a pie plate at 20 yards is good enough.
Paul
#19
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: NY
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RE: Shooting with broadheads make you a better shot?
ORIGINAL: Paul L Mohr
Well for starters it wasn't a personal attack against you, so that response really wasn't needed.
Well for starters it wasn't a personal attack against you, so that response really wasn't needed.
I do agree that you should practice the way you hunt before you actually hunt. And than includes using a 3-d target, not a square foam target that looks nothing like a deer.
By the way, I have ruined one of the yellow jackets using field points. I find it hard to believe you shoot that much with fixed blades and it has lasted you two years.
If for some reason you mentally need to shoot fixed blades all the time to keep from getting psyched out, then by all means do it.
The ones that have trouble are the guys that get thier bows out a week before the season and practice for a day thinking that hitting a pie plate at 20 yards is good enough.
Paul
Paul
I am the polar opposite.......I get flustered when my BH shot is on the outer ring of the 2" bullseye........even though I know full well that is more then lethal enough. I have never used the phrase "Close enough" in my life [8D]
#20
RE: Shooting with broadheads make you a better shot?
Now why would anybody shoot field tips (target points) vs broadheads? Among some of the responses made by Paul there are some others. There are a few people that shoot their bows for something other than hunting. It's called target archery, field archery, 3D. I guarantee you won't last very long shooting broadheads at the State Target Shoot. Then there are those of us who shoot literally thousands of shots every year (about 10,000 to 15,000 for me) practicing and 3D shooting.
Hunting is something that I do a few months of the year. For that my bow is tuned to perfection, just as it is for any other discipline of archery. After it is tuned there just isn't any reason to shoot broadheads into a target just to chew it up. When I take to the woods I have NO doubts about what my equipment can do. The rest of the year is spent working on "the nut behind the wheel". And I don't need broadheads for that.
Hunting is something that I do a few months of the year. For that my bow is tuned to perfection, just as it is for any other discipline of archery. After it is tuned there just isn't any reason to shoot broadheads into a target just to chew it up. When I take to the woods I have NO doubts about what my equipment can do. The rest of the year is spent working on "the nut behind the wheel". And I don't need broadheads for that.