like shooting uphill,shooting in small windows between tree's, rocks behind target ,downhill, etc
mine is threading the arrow between tree's and if theres a lake behind the target discovered the lake thing yesterday at a 3d course
Don't care where it is, don't care when it is....but every time I shoot at a standing bear on a 3-D course something goes haywire :dunno: ....lol! It does seem that the tougher the shot the better I do......most times!
Bullseye targets. Wierded out with those too many cmpd years ago. Haven't shot them since. Can. Don't want to. Make my head buzz.
Bedded buck is my target nemisis ! don't know why that target gets me everytime! Shoot it low almost everytime
Standing bear weirds me out too. Every time I shoot I think "nailed it!" and then when I go to check my shot it's completely off the vitals.
Turkeys!!
Any target that presents itself as a diagonal image. Good example would be a coyote sitting howling. Something about not having the target "square with the world" that my head doesn't like.
For me there are two:
- when theres a gully, of wich i cant see the bottom, between me and the target or
- when the target is standing inside a gully or behind a slope so that i cant see it completely and therefore cant judge the height.
Shooting over limbs or something in front of the target. Seem to always hit high.
Too many shots of bourbon are my nemesis. It always messes with my head.
ChuckC
Shooting up in trees for squirrels or grouse seem to mess me up - I'm so concerned with losing an arrow that I talk myself into missing. On 3D courses the one target that I have the most trouble with is the Antelope behind the board fence up on top of the hill - Most of the holes in the fence are mine :rolleyes:
Shooting a "Five-spot" bulls eye target...I use them to practice that "one-shot/first-shot that counts" mentality. At the same distance I can hammer a single spot bull consistently but when I move to the five individuals to practice the above I seem to throw it all out the window.
X2 Turkeys
I don't have any. Without wanting to sound clever, I'm 100% convinced I'm going to 12-ring every single target when I get up to it.
If archery is 90% mental, why talk yourself out of a shot before you've taken it?
X3 on turkeys. However, the live ones have been coming easier that past few years...have to get them close.
I actually like shooting thru holes in brush, past trees, etc. Somehow the structure gives me better visual/depth perception. Wide open shots are my least favorite unless they are very close.
Mine would have to be the five spot target also. I tend to find a "nemisis" target at most 3D shoot where I shoot multiple rounds but it is never the same. For whatever reason on that day any particular target can give me fits and there seems to not be a common thread to tie them together from shoot to shoot.
Bisch
Standing bear, any turkey target, having to shoot over something close to the target while shooting down hill, at fairly close range.
Shooting from a treestand. I've overshot several Blacktail bucks and bull elk that I could have spit on!
Open sage country. Missed several BIG mule bucks that I thought were closer then they actually were. I'm used to hunting in thick dark timber where my depth perception is good and the deer are smaller. When I get in the wide open and the deer are bigger bodies...messes me up!
For me it's from a tree stand at something below me. Something about shooting down like that I always shoot high.
All of 'em. :biglaugh:
Mine used to be the old football shaped turkey hen. Got to where I was just paranoid about the thing to the point that at a 3D shoot I'd start anticipating the thing well before I got to it.
Then Bill Turner came over one day with his turkey, stuck it up in my yard and forced me to shoot at that god awful thing over and over and over and over. :archer2:
Now they don't bother me at all. I still have it and occasionally I'll set it up and hammer it 15 or 20 times, smile and then go on about my business.
Standing bear and bedded deer past 25 yards, I hit them low 8 out of 10 times.
I hate any target that is uphill and skylined so your chance of loosing that arrow if you miss is high. I also hate the double trees framing the target.
Was going to say that I really don't have a target that messes me up, but upon thinking it over, I'd have to agree -- turkeys -- 3-D and real ones. Been pretty good on the real ones, but the ethafoam birds get the best of me more often than they should.
Standing Bear head on.
Why someone would take that shot on a live animal is beyond me except in self defense.
I have a hard time focusing on a spot and tend to hit in the arm/body crease.
Happy to say, none of the different shapes or stances of the 3-D targets messes with my head, it's more of the contortion of the body that might mess me up, like sitting down on a log and having to face my legs and feet forward and twist the upper part of the body around and take the shot., or laying down on my belly and taking a shot.
Any animal in wide open field.hard to judge distance i guess.
Shooting steep downhill at bull elk.
Missed two five points last year in less than 5 minutes.
Shot over the first one and under the second one.
Been out stump shooting several times since and take every downhill shot possible.
I dare them to try the same trail this year.
John
Man those turkey targets are tough!!!
The one I'm currently looking at!
QuoteOriginally posted by robtattoo:
I don't have any. Without wanting to sound clever, I'm 100% convinced I'm going to 12-ring every single target when I get up to it.
If archery is 90% mental, why talk yourself out of a shot before you've taken it?
Cocky, I like that in a pilot. :D
Seriously, that is the approach we should all have. When you walk up to a target and say "I hate these targets," you have already admitted defeat.
I use to say "dreaded bedded" whenever I saw a bedded buck on an archery course, but I have tried to get that thought out of my head. It is hard to do! :knothead:
The "non-standard" shape targets give me fits. If you look at most big game 3D standing targets, the body shape makes a rather standard rectangle shape that my mind processes well, making it eaier to pick a spot. The body is slightly wider than it is high but not by all that much. They just seem to look natural to me.
The low, wide rectangle body shapes like the lying down deer and the alligator just warp my mind as does the standing bear. To my mind, they just don't look right, and my brain keeps telling me this is a hard shot even though I logically know that if you pick a spot, it doesn't matter what shape the spot is attached to. Mind games, I guess. I won't even go into the way turkey targets trip me up.
A live Whitetail deer, the only big game animal I hunt, has that same natural, standard rectangle body shape, so I have no valid explanation as to why those shots cause me grief. Perhaps adrenalin figues into that equation more on live game.
Shooting through the trees and leaves doesn't make much difference. Its either I hit them or I don't. True, I hit them an awful lot, but that does not register as problematic. It's just an "oops" that happens.
I hate shooting dots and bullseyes.
I love shooting 3D targets. Sometimes the smller the window to shoot through, the better my focus thus a better shot.
Turkeys first... and many times the standing bear. Why is that? The center is the center is the center of the spot!
I do, however, feel better now that I know I am not alone with this. Frustrating thing I say!
Deer standing in chest high grass.
i always find standing bear to be almost too easy now alligator targets bother me i can never figure out where to aim
Bag targets with multiple dots.. Don't know why, it's always been an achilles heel though.
Turkey
Can make the shot 9 out of 10 times on a target and 0 out of 10 times on the real deal, go figure......stabow
shots downhill from a tree
red a$$ monkey target (Baboon)!!!! I hate that dang target!!
Lately it's been the first two shots of a game I play when practicing.
It's like baseball and I get three outs..or misses out of the kill zone on a 30, 25, 20, 15yd. walkup with full size deer target. I see how many innings I can go before 3 outs.
Went to a shoot Sunday that had a 6+ foot tall Sasquatch target as the first one. Never seen one of those before....how do you take a 5 on a target that size? I got Squatched. :banghead:
The bigger they are,the harder they are for me. Always mis-judge Moose,Caribou,Elk. Sometimes 2 arrows in a row come up short.
Probably with me, the bigger the animal the bigger I miss.
standing bear
If one wants to see on film a real standing bear shot Google Art Young's shot on a grizzly or brown bear. Now he had to have had some tightening of the lower region muscle when he did that.