It happens to everyone(at least I know it happens to everyone I hunt with)
I go on streaks where I just cannot miss and them... Whamo... I cannot hit water throwing a stone into the ocean??? I then begin to loose confidence and the missing continues for a bit. It is then that I have to shoot, shoot, shoot to regain my confidence. I do all my hunting practice shooting a single arrow with a Judo. I just wander around the yard and shoot a single shot at long distances for me(30yards an beyond) As I start hitting my mark consistantly I quit "over thinking" my shots and go back to just shooting the bow. My confidence returns and when I am in my stand with deer inside my comfortable hunting range of 20 yards they look like cows.
I equate it to practicing pool on a 10' table and then playing on a 8'er. The pockets begin to look like buckets and you make every shot.
Also, like mentioned above, there is nothing that improves your killing like killing. I think there is little better practice for hunting live game like "hunting live game" and some of the best two methods for me is shooting fish and chipmunks. Shooting carp can give you hundreds of shots a day at live moving game and chipmunks forces you to "super focus" because they are so tiny that even if you are shooting at the whole critter you are picking a spot.
Other than tuning a new bow I do not like standing back and shooting multiple arrows at a single target for hunting practice. It just does me no good and I think probably hurts me when I am hunting. I just think I get into a groove when filling up a target and it becomes the same exact motion everytime. This makes me feel like I am really good when stacking arrows but in reality it is just muscle memory and I am not actually making a shot like single shooting at unknown distances of different targets.
This all works for me and with all that said, I know I will go on a miss streak again if I do not continue my practice throughout the season.
Disclaimer is that this works for me - everyone develops their own personal best practice to develop their mojo.
Bob Urban
Topic: Help..for people who miss game after practicing on targets all year! (Read 242 times)
