Learnin' the Hard Way

[Bud B.]

Trying to improve on my tree stand shooting skills I thought I'd buy some tennis balls and throw them out and shoot at them. It helped. I got to where I could hit them more than not at 15 yards.

BUT

I learned the hard way that with conical field tips they bounce off the tennis balls ocasionally. I bent two nice 1916 Legacys before I figured it out.

Now to find some nerf-type baseballs or something similar. Sharper pointed field tips did not have the bounce problems.

[David Yukon]

What about using rubber blunts, or Judo points or the like?!?

[Bud B.]

The sharp points work fine. It's the conical ones that didn't penetrate and allowed the shock from the impact and the rolling of the tennis ball to bend them. But, a footnote, I made an arrow straightener set of wooden blocks to use with a clamp to get'em back to field use straighness. Maybe not big game and broadhead straight, but at least shootable straight.

I use blunts and judos for grass shootin and stumpin.

Thanks for the tip though.

Bud

[cbCrow]

I shoot tennis balls sometimes but use the Saunders blunts and have no problems with them. The good thing is they work great for my favorite way to practise  "stumpin". Lancaster has them and they are not that expensive!

[maineac]

I often cut circles out of cardboard and prop them up at various ranges around the ladder I practice from.  Once leaves start to fall I have lots of little targets to aim at.

[Stumpkiller]

I thought that's what red squirrels were for?

[cohutta orange]

Nerf footballs. About the size of a wascally wabbit. You can have someone throw or kick them and they bound like one too.

[lpcjon2]

Just get a bag of water balloons from the dollar store and use them,when they blow around a little it makes it a challenge.You can even put a small stone in them to keep them in place.And the kids love blowing them up for you.