I think I understand what Stump Shooting is, but I am not really sure or in that matter what  equipment is needed.

My next question is do you put a judos behind blunts???

Whatever you want, from blunts to target points to judos.  The idea is to exercise, practice at unknowns up and down hill.   Share the time with friends, laugh and know you are practicing for the real thing-whatever that is for you

Just hiking through the woods or fields with your bow and arrows. Picking random targets at varying distances and see if you can hit them. Use judos, blunts or field points on the end of your arrow.

***Make sure if you are on public land, you have a hunting license on you or whatever the state requires.

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Targets are usually soft like rotten stumps, lose mounds of soil,old soda or beer cans laying on the soft ground. Best way to train the brain to estimate distance.Please don't litter.

Another good tip is if you are going to use carbon arrows be sure to foot your arrows. This will save you a lot of money and headaches. There are a number of threads on here for footing sizes. It's a blast by the way

Depending where you are as a trad bow hunter, you may want to think about only shooting trophy stumps. Kinda like antler restrictions:)

All the good info above and remember...enjoy yourself, have fun. Bring a camera and share some photos with us.

hmmmm, I think I may have to go out today

 

I stump shoot just about every morning. I take two arrows when I stump shoot. One has a judo head, which I use to shoot at soft targets in locations where a regular arrow might get lost in the grass. The other has a plastic blunt head that I use for hard targets, like actual stumps.  The combination makes my arrows last a lot longer than either used alone.

I call it roving, as stumps are too hard on my arrows.

Out here in western SD, yucca plants make great targets and really catch an arrow.  Dirt banks in the cuts also make very good backstops.

Up in the Black Hills, pines cones, rotten stumps, and small dirts mounds are great.

Where I am it should be called "Sage Shooting".  There are few stumps and the small clumps of sage always have something to aim at.  

The sage is tops at hiding small rocks to test your arrow.

I love stump shooting!! It's a great way to thin out those junk arrows we all hang onto and build up your accuracy at unknown distances.    

Anthills,



Stumps,



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Have fun and just shoot, it's great practice and you're out in the woods!

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Now That's Funny!  

... mike ...

My next question is do you put a judos behind blunts???

There's a stumping thread going now that has a pic of that set-up. The spring arm collar that goes between the insert and any screw-in heads. Myself, I use mostly wood so it's Zwickey Judo glue on or the rubber slip-on blunts for rockier areas. I've used Ace Hex and other blunts, too, but they seem to get buried sometimes. Not the Judo's or rubber blunts, though...

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i work with a guy that has a set of those if ya know what i mean, hard to get along with. LOL!

Nice pair!

I'm glad my little cactus aren't that bristly.