3D & Bulls eye Practice

[Mint]

While I was sitting on stand on a recent hog hunt I was pondering using 3D and bullseye practice for hunting. When using the Fita bullseye target my eye is automatically drawn to the center bullseye and while using 3D I have to concentrate on the kill zone more. I'm wondering if the bullseye practice is hurting me when especially a black hog steps out and your eye will automaticaaly be drawn to the center of the black blob.

[maineac]

Maybe, but I would think, since there is not the distinct different color circle you will be able to pick a small spot.  It might be harder if you have a dark hog with a white spot somewhere.    

[Stumpkiller]

It's certainly not hurting you if you are developing better form through practice.  But even shooting 3-D over a cleared path is a false hunting situation.  I like to take a plastic milk jug into the brush and bounce it around with blunts while shooting through cover and around branches.

BAck at your targets: put a plain brown bag or large piece of blank cardboard over the target and practice picking a spot on that occasionally.

[sweet old bill]

maybe I use a blank bale or deer target or the burlap deer target so that I have to pick a spot.

[traditional beagle]

Shooting at a bullseye is absolutley easier for me to bear down on. A blank 3-D target takes me some time to get in the groove of consentration. The closer to a hunt I get the more I move away from targets with a spot painted on them.

[Jason R. Wesbrock]

Shooting spots is excellent archery practice and is valuable for building and maintaining certain fundamentals. But it does little to nothing in terms of training archers to pick a spot, which is fundamental in bowhunting. That is one of the areas where 3-D shines.

[joe ashton]

use the bulls eye to master form and muscle memory and 3ds to pick a spot on an animal and distance judgement on life like animals. Buy distance I don't mean x number of yards but rather is this animal at a shootable distance or not.

[Jim Wright]

Differently, I find the bullseye on a flat target face difficult to shoot accurately compared to a 3d target. I can shoot a 15-20 yard 10-12" group at a flat bullseye on the warm-up area then walk over to my club's 3d range and shoot 160-180 out of 200 on 20 targets, many of which are farther than the flat targets.

[ishoot4thrills]

Originally posted by joe ashton:
use the bulls eye to master form and muscle memory and 3ds to pick a spot on an animal and distance judgement on life like animals. Buy distance I don't mean x number of yards but rather is this animal at a shootable distance or not.

I'm with Joe. My thoughts exactly.