I had the shot of a lifetime yesterday...

[rholzie]

If your neighbor "wet" himself...I hate to think what "really" happend to you!! Must be an good omen! You go boy!!    

[Bjorn]

Way cool!        

[huntin_sparty]

Very cool!  I just had something similar that will etch my archery prowess in my kids mind.  

I was out freshening some ground blinds up ahead of season and swapping cards on my trail cams with my 2 kids 9 and 5.  We had our bows and were stumping.  I notice on the way out my daugthers pink big jim hat is MIA.  So I look back from where we came and saw it on a fallen tree back 50 yards where we came from.
So I ask her where did you leave your hat?  She gets worried and I say good thing I can see it from here, she looks doesnt see anything.  So I say I will show you, nock up an arrow and let fly wham right into the fallen tree just below the hat!!  My kids amazed at the old mans hawkeye accuracy!  I didnt tell them I actually was trying to hit it and then missed a stump at 15 yards on the way back.  Always keeps you humble, gotta love it!

[Burnsie]

My son is starting to shoot recurve, but not all that great yet.  Had his buddy in the back yard the other day shooting the bow.  His buddy sets an empty water bottle on top of the target and says "hit this".  My son is back as far as the yard fence will allow (22 yds),  he lets one fly and hits it dead center.  His buddy was recording on his cell phone and about had a fit when it happened.  Pretty cool for my son until he tried to repeat the feat, brought him back down to earth pretty quick.

[devonchristensen]

Great job!  

I've been practicing on tennis balls in the back yard lately.  Tossing 4 or 5 to different places is great practice for judging distance and point of aim.  

Doubt I could hit one at 60 yds, though.

[longbowman]

That's great when it all works out.  I had just started bowhunting in the late 60's and my old uncle came to visit while I was practicing in the yard.  He hobbled over and asked why I would use a thing like that when I had perfectly good guns.  I told him I could kill anything a gun could.  He said, well there's a woodchuck right there in the filed so why don't you kill it?  I looked and it was walking very quickly across the filed at 83 steps. (Paced off later).  I pulled out a broadhead and cranked away.  I wet myself when I pinned that chuck righ to the ground!
     My uncle just turned away and said "So you can."

[Lone Ranger]

what a great story! I think at times we ALL have those shots that we know we can never in like a million years duplicate! (but it makes us look good at the time!)

L.R.

[Friend]

Possibly their expressions didn't even express how remarkable of a shot that was.

[americanhunter7]

Great shot!!!    I do this shot in the backyard roving with my nephew. I get a few tennis balls, put em in my pocket and away we go. Great great fun and super practice on both long and short shots. So again, GREAT SHOT! It also sounds lik you may have peaked the interest of a closet TRAD archer!

[Don Stokes]

For me it was a garden-raiding cottontail rabbit at something over 50 yards. My brother was with me, and said he would have been impressed except for the astonished look on my face.

[bolong]

 You represented us well!

[cacciatore]

This is a good way to advertise trad archery.Well done.

[LimBender]

I was shooting with a compound shooter at 20-25 and mostly keeping up, we then put the target at about 50 yards on the edge of a road.  I said I was going to put it in the center of the target.  I came up oh, about 2 feet short, it hit the concrete curb, cracked the arrow and it deflected into the center of the target.  So I did it, but it wasn't my finest hour.    

[sagebrush]

About ten years ago I was at an archery shop and was playing around with my recurve. I had a couple of compound shooters badmouthing recurves. I finally had enough. I laid down on the floor, pulled back my bow and drilled the bullseye at twenty yards. I'm glad I didn't mess that one up. Gary

[BOWMARKS]

Well it wasnt the shot of a lifetime but a couple days ago was at my local shop bsing as usual and a young wheely guy comes in and starts looking at my bow,says can you actualy hit that deer from here (20 yards)? I pulled out an arrow with a lumenock on it drew back and that little light dead center him.Made my day!!   :D

[JSMOFFITT03]

Thats funny!!!!!!!!!!!! A few years back I traded some welding work for a longbow.  I brought it home and was messing around in the yard when my wife came out to tell me dinner is ready.  As we walked in the house I herd her mumbling about how she doesnt know what the fun is in shooting my bow at leaves 10 paces away.  I said, Hey look here!  I knocked my arrow and took am at one of the avacados that had fallen from the tree in the front yard.  I let her fly and would you believe it at a bout 10 or so paces back I shot right through that thing.  I then quitely walked past her and put the bow away. I think I had only shot the bow a few dozen times at that point...

[mwosborn]

[b.glass]

Looper, that wasn't luck. Just look at his scores from this summers Tradgang Fun Shoot! He is goooood!

 

[Benny Nganabbarru]

Sweet. Love it when that happens.

[Margly]