While I was sitting on stand on a recent hog hunt I was pondering using 3D and bullseye practice for hunting. When using the Fita bullseye target my eye is automatically drawn to the center bullseye and while using 3D I have to concentrate on the kill zone more. I'm wondering if the bullseye practice is hurting me when especially a black hog steps out and your eye will automaticaaly be drawn to the center of the black blob.

Maybe, but I would think, since there is not the distinct different color circle you will be able to pick a small spot.  It might be harder if you have a dark hog with a white spot somewhere.    

It's certainly not hurting you if you are developing better form through practice.  But even shooting 3-D over a cleared path is a false hunting situation.  I like to take a plastic milk jug into the brush and bounce it around with blunts while shooting through cover and around branches.

BAck at your targets: put a plain brown bag or large piece of blank cardboard over the target and practice picking a spot on that occasionally.

maybe I use a blank bale or deer target or the burlap deer target so that I have to pick a spot.

Shooting at a bullseye is absolutley easier for me to bear down on. A blank 3-D target takes me some time to get in the groove of consentration. The closer to a hunt I get the more I move away from targets with a spot painted on them.

Shooting spots is excellent archery practice and is valuable for building and maintaining certain fundamentals. But it does little to nothing in terms of training archers to pick a spot, which is fundamental in bowhunting. That is one of the areas where 3-D shines.

use the bulls eye to master form and muscle memory and 3ds to pick a spot on an animal and distance judgement on life like animals. Buy distance I don't mean x number of yards but rather is this animal at a shootable distance or not.

Differently, I find the bullseye on a flat target face difficult to shoot accurately compared to a 3d target. I can shoot a 15-20 yard 10-12" group at a flat bullseye on the warm-up area then walk over to my club's 3d range and shoot 160-180 out of 200 on 20 targets, many of which are farther than the flat targets.

QuoteOriginally posted by joe ashton:
use the bulls eye to master form and muscle memory and 3ds to pick a spot on an animal and distance judgement on life like animals. Buy distance I don't mean x number of yards but rather is this animal at a shootable distance or not.

I'm with Joe. My thoughts exactly.