I had a great time at Rick's school/hog hunt. Dave Mayfield is a fine gentleman and host, and his ranch was a great choice for the event.
Rick's classes, as always, are intense: about 6 hours a day with only two students at a time means that you do a LOT of shooting, so bring a bow you can handle for a hundred shots a day. All shooting is done at 3D targets at varying distances. About the only time you take the same shot two times in a row is if you blow a shot and Rick wants you to repeat it to learn a particular point.
I went back for a refresher because it has been several years since I first took his course. I've been trying a number of different things, but I feel like I've never shot better than I did after the first time I took his course. It took until about noon of the second day for Rick to undo all my new bad habits, but then my shooting improved quite a bit. I don't fault myself for trying other things that have worked well for other people, because we all want to continue to improve, but now I am convinced that for me, I will shoot better if I just stick with Rick's method.
Classes would end at about 3:30 PM every day and we would get a break until Dave took us out hog hunting at various stands from about 5:30 until dark. I didn't get a hog either night, which really didn't disappoint me that much since getting it back to Sacramento on the airplane might not have been worth it, I think. It was fun watching a sow and her 8 little piglets play in front of my blind the first night, and to hear and sort of see a big old hog rooting around pretty close when it was too dark to shoot. Rick just walked back down around the area of our 3D range and stalked and shot a hog both nights. My only regret is that I had thought about following Rick the second night rather than going on stand, which he said would be fine with him, but I didn't end up doing it. I'm sure I could have learned something about stalking from him.
Topic: Gearing up for Rick Welch School/ Hog Hunt Money well spent (Read 527 times)
