Archery Practice

[arrowsender]

How do you all elevate your practice sessions to prepare for the up coming season? Pushups or sprints to elevate your heart rate? Shooting with your pack? Holding at full draw for 1 minute before taking aim and shooting.

I've been using visualization, playing out a scenario in my mind and my target is now that buck or bull I will be shooting at this fall.

 

[Rob5589]

Visualization. No group shooting, one shot only. Shoot from all possible positions. I need to add in some extended full draw time.

 

[thinhorn_AK]

Pushups or sprints to elevate your heart rate?

I hope this is a joke.....if you aren’t doing these already then your effed.

 

[Ucsdryder]

I hope this is a joke.....if you aren’t doing these already then your effed.

I think he meant in between shots?

personally I think 99% of the time people are overthinking this shit. Go have fun and try to kill an elk.

 

[87TT]

3D shoots like the NW Mountain challenge are good. I do them with my full hunting pack *25#) along with binos and range finder. At home I'm lucky to have some room with hills so I set up my own. I shoot uphill , downhill, sidehill, odd distances etc. I also practice holding at draw mostly at under 40. At 10-15 yards I practice coming to full draw, getting on target fast and shooting quickly.

 

[Billy Goat]

Shoot through bushes.

Not quite but practice shooting where you might not have a perfect shot, learn the trajectory of your arrow. Shoot from one knee, over a log that is between you and the target. Wear what your hunting in.

 

[MNman]

Angles, angles, angles......

 

[Beendare]

Heres what I do;
Early season its all about form, form,form. I'm a puncher with a trigger finger release and that creates all kinds of problems later on.....in fact I have 2 friends that converted to lefty they have TP so bad.

I usually shoot 3D all summer [not this summer]. I don't shoot it like the ASA guys though...holding for days on a shot. In practice, you have all the time in the world on stationary targets...then on game there is always an urgency that can disrupt the way you have been target shooting all summer. I think the key is to instill that urgency of a real animal encounter...getting off a quick shot accurate shot. So I practice that at the tail end of summer.

I have a hunting shot sequence that I use to calm my nerves, 2 quick reminders.... even though I don't get nervous in practice the routine of doing this over and over in practice helps with shots on game.

I run through the shot sequence mentally before drawing then end with 'pick a tiny spot'. One arrow for all the marbles. I don't second guess my range, once selected I go with it. My focus is on getting to my anchor and quickly getting off an accurate shot with good follow through. In practicing with one arrow shots, you can quickly learn from the bad shots.

Works for me.....

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[87TT]

Yep, practice the way you hunt. Chances of an animal standing still very long, even if unaware that you're there, is slim. You will shoot like you practice. Muscle memory. Just like combat training.

 

[Elk97]

Good advice above. I try to shoot every scenario that I can think of that will be difficult: steep up/down, weird angles, in between trees, under branches, etc. And lots of different distances without using the range finder.