My summer challenge

[bear bowman]

So my shooting has improved a great deal over the last year. I've been practicing at longer distances and my buddies and I have been shooting from the compound stakes at 3d shoots.
With that being said, a lot of my practice is done shooting at ping pong balls on my bag target. I've hit balls from 15 out to about 32-35 yards. My challenge right now is to hit at 40. I've been getting very close but haven't hit. Does anyone else make challenges for themselves? What sort of things do you do?

[bear bowman]

[ahab78]

Ping pong balls are great. I also hang a tennis ball in front of hay bales and shoot it still and swinging. Another good exercise I like to do is pick up some cheap nerf footballs from the dollar store and throw them out into a field at different distances and shoot from one position and then shoot at them while moving around.

[acedoc]

I found shooting high contrast targets not conducive to accuracy, try picking a spot on a dull same color target. That makes it tougher, else divide it into quadrants and let some one dictate which to hit. Aim and loose in least amount of time.

[M60gunner]

As I am aging to enjoy shooting longer I have had to drop a little bow weight. My challenge is learning the new "sight picture" I need to get the arrow up. I also like shooting from the C bow stakes unless it is 60 yards.

[bunyan]

My kids drink a lot of little 8oz stubby water bottles  and my wife and I drink the regular 16oz ones. I usually throw a couple out in the yard when shooting and throw a judo at them. They get torn up quick (if I can hit them!) but I just throw them in the recycling when I'm done. I pretend the big ones are squirrels and the small ones are frogs! I usually focus on the bottle cap, a upc code, or something else on the label.

[wingnut]

This summer we will take a 1/2 dozen old golf balls and throw them out in the yard (over 2 acres of yard).  We shoot at them from point blank to I see one over there distance.  Really helps sharpen up the eye and it's great fun for the kids.

Mike