unethical shots

[James Wrenn]

I try and worry about the shots I take or pass on.I leave it to others to make there own decisions right or wrong.  :D  

As far as 3ds go reguardless of what some think it is a game of shooting targets.The targets just look like animals but the spot that it to be scored is just like a spot on a flat target.I sure would never pass on a target because I thought it was not the best "killing shot" like I would on an animal.Some just have trouble seperating the two sports.    

I wish the guys that always have trouble with the way targets are set up on courses would just offer to lend a hand sometime.You will soon see there is no way to please everyone no matter what you do.Guys that set course work hard trying to please as many as they can will would be glad for a little help an impute.If you don't like a course just help them out a little instead of slamming the guys that make it possible for you to even have a place to shoot.    jmo

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point taken james but ultimately the course is set up by bowhunters as well as just 3d shooters.i think we would all benefit if we set up 3d shoots to ibo standards which are in my opinion the best as far as realistic shots are concerned and are required to have seperate stakes for each class of shooter.the maximum was 50 yds for compound and i think 35 for traditional.and not sure for the junior class.in my opinion if you'll shoot a target at 60 you'll shoot an animal at the same yardage if you are fairly new to the sport.i cannot tell you how many gun hunters i have seen switch over to archery simply because they can then hunt elk in the rut.they sight their bow in clear out to 100 yds (some not all) i once sent a friend home who i watched launch an arrow at a cow elk that was walking from at least 70 yds luckily he missed.he went back to gun hunting.we need a seperate course on ethics for first time archers.just my opinion.

[Gene Roberts]

I think that most of the people on those show just want to kill a trophy or a rare animal at any cost.    People who do that and have children will teach them the same things and those will teach their children....and the cycle continues. People have no respect for game now-a-days.

[Stringslap16]

That hog hunting video was probably one of the disturbing things I have ever seen on youtube.  Karma is going to bite those guys one day for sure....

[Don Thomas]

There's an amazingly simple solution to the problem: turn off the tube, ignore the sponsors, and go hunting. Don

[Dave Lay]

On the 3-d shoots.. James, you are on the money. Our local club as do most I imagine have a core that gets worked to death setting ranges then taking them down only to hear people gripe about this or that. The folks setting them are usually the same people shoot after shoot.. the best shooters in our area usually dont do anything but show up and shoot then leave with thier trophy..easier to shoot when your butt isnt whipped from doing all the work. Some of the unhappy folks need to pitch in and put thier ideas to practice on target setup...
 Mr. Thomas.. thats the best idea I have heard all day.... I'm goin in the morning for our last day.. see if I cant run up on a hog  or somethin...

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[Steve H.]

"Back before 3D's were all the rage, we used to shoot NFAA animal rounds"

Jason, were you even born by the time these were still taking place, lol?

[Jason R. Wesbrock]

Steve,

Believe it or not, when I got into archery our local club shot mostly field, hunter and animal rounds. Every weekend at least one club in the area had some form of field archery going on. We didn't have 3D's at that time. The closest things were those 2D foam animal cutouts, which never seemed to last very long.