A little practice drill I've been doing

[reddogge]

This has helped me shooting at blind bales and may help you.

I have a small patch of shrubbery in the back yard and I put my bale in back of it so I have to make about a 10-15 yards shot at the blind bale THROUGH a hole in the bushes.  I usually have to kneel and bend over to do this.

I've found you can focus intensly on your SPOT, pull the bow back anchor, release, follow through, the whole time focusing intensly on the spot.  I guess the mind blocks out every distraction except the spot you are shooting at and I can hit it almost every time.

[Bear Heart]

Kinda like how people can shoot instinctively better in very low light if given a brighter target.

[Terry Green]

Yeah....all that type of stuff is great to do...especially in your back yard where you can't rove.  If you don't have any real 'saplings'...bring home some dead ones an place them in front of your target at different distances to simulate the 'woods' more.

[foamkiller]

reddogge- Shooting blank bale is just that a blank bale.....no dots or any thing to aim at or focus on. The purpose of these type drills is to work on the feeling of the shot. If you are using the hole in the bush to shoot through you might as well just put a target on your bale and shoot at that because you are no longer blank or blind bale shooting.

[reddogge]

Actually the hole is closer to me than the target and is large enough to see a good 12"-18" circle of target and I'm shooting at a quarter sized area. I'd still call it a blank bale.

At any rate it seems to be a good drill for me.