As mentioned above, one of the best things one can do to become proficient at a difficult skill, is to never watch TV. I will admit, however, that when Hogan's Heros is on 9 PM to 10 PM on the ME network, I am mindlessly practicing my daily arpeggio exercises and scales on a guitar. The brain numbing affect of the flicker rates have a relaxing affect on my muscle tension in my hands. One aspect of Hill's shooting that gets ignored is that he was constantly trying to come up with fun stuff. My latest is the use of an expandable crappie rod, the most worthless fishing device ever created, but it is very handy when Gorilla taped to a tall Little Giant step ladder. I have lost my good coin tossers, the ones can can accurately toss a coin both across my target stack and into the path of an on coming arrow at the same time. Now I use the super long fishing rod to either swing stuff across my target stack or to sometimes just have a dandelion head blowing back forth in the breeze. I do NOT shoot at bumble bees, butterflies, squirrels and hummingbirds that are also in my backyard and sometimes between me and my targets. The squirrels are tame, they have no fear of the arrows flying past them or me walking a couple of feet from them when I get my arrows. I would bet Hill would have had them cooked and eaten if he would have had the chance to shoot in my back yard. I am against baiting and it is illegal in Iowa, I feed those squirrels everyday and they come running when they see the sun flowers seeds come out.
Topic: How Did Howard Hill train to shoot? (Read 1527 times)
