Quote from: Pat B on March 08, 2026, 11:17:44 PMOne of my favorite things to shoot at is a small pine cone or something smaller hanging from a string. When you hit it you have a moving target to shoot at also.
The old saying...aim small, miss small! The smaller your target is the closer you will get to it. Like imagining a hair on the side of a deer. If you concentrate on that hair you have a better chance of hitting where you look.

Years ago i was at an archery club in San Diego where they had a 3D shoot and some novelty shoots. They had one where you through a dollar in the pot, and got to shoot 3 arrows at a ping pong ball dangling from a piece of fishing line. You talk about a tough shot to make... Just hitting the ball didn't count either. you had to penetrate the ping pong ball to take the pot. I watched the guys having a ball shooting at that thing before i hit the trail.  When i got back off the trail, that coffee can was full to the brim with dollar bills. They were shooting at if from about 10 yards... These guys i was shooting with were damn good archers and wanted to give it a go, so i joined them. They were whacking the ball pretty good, and one guy cut the line off it too, and it needed repair. i was laughing at them and razzing them as they added to the pot. Finally they told me, "come on hot shot! show us how it's done."  So i asked the guys if they had any problem with me stepping back a few yards? If so i'll give it a go. i threw a dollar in the coffee can, and stepped back to about 15 yards, and center punched it on my first shot.  You could have heard a pin drop in that moment... LOL   $87.00 in the pot too.

Luck you say?            I think id have to agree with that one.

The guys said i bet you can't do that again. and i told them why would i want to with that coffee can empty. So everybody threw another buck in the pot and we went after it again. i'll bet i hit that damn thing 15 times after that and never pined it again. It was great sport!  about 6 of us shot for an hour , and nobody ever pinned it.     

Planning on coming this year. I can't find any info defining the classes.  Are you required to shoot wood arrows in the longbow class and must selfbows shoot self nock arrows?

Good to hear from you...Sorry to hear about ya getting the crud... You have definitely  taken a beating here the last couple months. Glad to hear you are still kicking!

Not sure. I've been wondering the same thing.

We used to have a shooters forum what happened to it? Or did I just miss it on here???

Years ago, when I still had to go to work every day, a lot of my practice session were at night. I would wrap reflective tape around an old soccer ball. 3 or 4 wraps around the circumference of the ball and then heavy duct tape so that there were square sections of the reflective tape still showing. I'd kick the ball and then shoot it, either while it was rolling or when it stopped. Usually, the moonlight would would reflect enough to see the ball for a shot, but if it didn't, I'd go to the side yard where the neighbor's dusk to dawn lights would be enough. I was shooting heavier bows back then, so the duct tape might not be necessary now, but with a judo poing I was penetrating the soccer balls more often than not! Haven't done this in several years as my kids grew up and I ran out of soccer balls! Great practice for instinctive shooters.

I see yellow pretty good...

White or pink Kenny Oops Roy use pink 

I'll be there!

Thanks 😊