Do you feel your 3d animal target helps you prepare?
06-28-2008, 01:01 PM
#22
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Colorado
Posts: 4,127
RE: Do you feel your 3d animal target helps you prepare?
Don't do like this guy I used to know . . . . got the vitals area of his 3D deer target really shot up - and was low on funds to get it replaced - so he started shooting at the largely unshotarea in the posterior of the target. You can probably guess what happened next . . . .
06-28-2008, 01:08 PM
#23
Typical Buck
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Becker County, MN
Posts: 550
RE: Do you feel your 3d animal target helps you prepare?
I aim for a spot on an animal just like when I practice on my five spot target. Practicing witha 3D target has never seemed necesarry for me personally. The vital areas of most 3D targets is NOT very representative of a real live deer either.
06-28-2008, 01:30 PM
#24
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Mont County, Pa
Posts: 7,368
RE: Do you feel your 3d animal target helps you prepare?
I was wondering, after reading all of the post's about guys getting involved in 3D course competitions, do they have courses where you shoot 3D targets from treestands? It would seem to me this would be the most realistic way to duplicate a true hunting situation as opposed to shooting from the ground. Considering, I would think most bowhunters hunt from treestands?
06-28-2008, 01:57 PM
#25
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Burke, VA (raised in MD)
Posts: 1,096
RE: Do you feel your 3d animal target helps you prepare?
I've never seen a 3D course with treestands. It is a great idea if it doesn't violate association rules. Everyone would need a safety harness and everyone would need to shoot from the same 'stake'. You could shoot 2-3 targets from the same stand if you wanted different ranges for the different classes. It would be interesting to see some of the open shooters trying get their 36" stabilizers, umberallasand little bow standsinto a tree. Then again, a lot of the bows in the 'bowhunting' class have never seen a treestand either...
Most of the courses use a steep embankment or mobile set of stairs to gain altitude.
Most of the courses use a steep embankment or mobile set of stairs to gain altitude.
