Bailing season=roving season

[Mo_coon-catcher]

Just curious, how many other people get in a bunch of good roving sessions during bailing season? It’s a favorite summertime hobby for a couple buddies and myself. Esssentially treating it like golf. Fewest shots to hit the nail wins, if the same amount of shots, then the closest to a designated center point wins. From that hay bail you pick another and go to it. They may be 40-50 yards away or they could be 300 and you have to walk the arrow in. We usually start in the evening after supper and carry on until dark. It’s a lot of fun and a great way to get a lot of shooting in.
After shooting a 50# bow for a couple hours at an indoor range followed by 70# elb go about 2 hours my shoulders sure were tired the next day. Especially the muscles between the shoulder blades.

So any other hayfield shooters?

Kyle

[Paul/KS]

Sounds like fun Kyle. 

[PV]

I set up an archery golf course between cuts. Targets vary from  200 to 400 yards.  Good for about a month until the hay gets too tall.

[Red Beastmaster]

I call it "Mastodon Hunting". Launching arrows across a field at those big round bales is something I look forward to each summer.

Another annual event I do is "Corn Stalking". After the corn is cut I walk the field and shoot at ears and stalk stubs.

Backyard ranges are so incredibly boring.

[Yooper-traveler]

Before I sold my property the kids and I would do our annual round bale shoot after the 4th.  My 18 year old daughter still laughs about the time she was attacked by a giant horsefly by a bail, and she was 9-10 at the time!  Fun memories.

[Tim Finley]

Im putting up hay right now and when its done it is fun walking around taking long shots at big targets. I shoot at the sides or my arrows disappear in the ends of the bale.

[Trenton G.]

Usually after doing hay my arms are so tired I wouldn't even think about shooting my bow!

I have done it occasionally though and it's a lot of fun. We do square bales though which are a bit smaller than the big round bales. I used to use judos but then I accidentally hit the binder twine once and had a mess to clean up when the bale fell apart.

[pavan]

Around here they use the big round bail system with the plastic mesh.  They can take numerous hits.  The end of a round bail is really good for finding your point on range.