From: Tradtiger
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Date: 13-Feb-19 |
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Back in the day, some day leases used to make hunters wanting to use bows to hunt prove they could hit a paper plate at about 20 yards. Is this a fair test? Too easy? Too hard?
There's a fun and free challenge where you can see how you can do with 20 arrows from 20 yards over on another site founded by a longtime dedicated trad archer.
Here's a link to the challenge:
http://barbeearchery.boards.net/thread/365/traditional-bowhunter-proficiency-valentine-challenge
Try it. Happens I won it last year with 73 points. Will provide a neat little prize to the winner this year.
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From: DanaC
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Date: 14-Feb-19 |
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Can you just use a standard 20 yard indoor target and only count 5's, 4's and 3's ?
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From: Draven
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Date: 14-Feb-19 |
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Knowing Rick, I think his real test is not about scoring points but being capable to hit the "middle of the middle" when are very few additional helpers. I would have changed the exercise with shooting 20 arrows and after drawing the circles and count the points.
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From: RymanCat
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Date: 14-Feb-19 |
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Stoped shooting a plate when I didn't see any on the animals and birds I shoot.
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From: Draven
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Date: 14-Feb-19 |
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RymanCat, are you the one who shoots just animals when practicing? Because I've seen no foam on live animals too.
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From: Rick Barbee
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Date: 14-Feb-19 |
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LOL Draven. Practice make perfect ya know.
It's just to bad that kind of practice makes things bleed "before" you get there huh. 8^)
Rick
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From: David McLendon
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Date: 14-Feb-19 |
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I looked for the thread where we did that here last but didn't find it. Seems I deleted the picture of my shot plate off my computer while on a cleaning spree a while back.
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From: Lowcountry
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Date: 14-Feb-19 |
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Well - by his own (often repeated) words Ryman is a "Killer"...
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From: Jarhead
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Date: 14-Feb-19 |
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Low - Pretty sure he just misspelled "person who continues to struggle at life."
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From: PEARL DRUMS
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Date: 14-Feb-19 |
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I'd say its a fair sized "test" target. If an archer can hit a paper plate he/she will eat a lot of protein and leave few behind. That being said, a paper plate size shooter should be a center mass aimer and not a heart shooter.
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From: M60gunner
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Date: 14-Feb-19 |
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Hitting a paper plate, which size, dinner plate size, lunch size, or snack size?
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From: Tom McCool
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Date: 14-Feb-19 |
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Anyone know were I can get 3' plates please?
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From: PEARL DRUMS
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Date: 14-Feb-19 |
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I just glue 6 of them together :)
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From: Longcruise
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Date: 14-Feb-19 |
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I just checked it out and don't see any entrys! think I'll do it and post at the last minute even if I DQ. Gonna be a bunch saying to themselves "I coulda been somebody. I coulda been a contender"
:^)
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From: deerhunt51
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Date: 14-Feb-19 |
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I would say 90% into 5" at 20 yards would be about right.
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From: David McLendon
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Date: 14-Feb-19 |
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I seem to recall that I had a pretty good score previously,that subsequently resulted in five deer in the freezer for the 2018 season, and all from the ground. Imagine that???
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From: Tradtiger
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Date: 14-Feb-19 |
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Don't have to get them all on the plate, but the "wounding" penalty for an arrow off the plate is negative 2 points.
I personally agree that keeping most arrows favoring the centerish part of the plate is plenty lethal on game. Plus, if you can do that at 20 yards, you should be golden at 17 or 15 or 12 or whatever limits you want to put on yourself.
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From: David A.
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Date: 14-Feb-19 |
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Sorry I can't enter because currently I'm using a simple one pin sight on my actual 54"/55# hunting bow. Shooting very tight groups, approaching 290 on the 300 round albeit 30 arrows x 2. Shot 144 and 144 one day apart this week. It's as good as I can do with a compound. Building my strength up to go full 60 arrows although for a bowhunter, it's of questionable value. No room for error over 290...
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From: David A.
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Date: 14-Feb-19 |
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...shooting 60 arrows is not a big deal. Holding 55# dead steady is another thing. Every shot has to be very close to perfect to approach 300. This is basically 60 shots all within a group size of a lemon dead center of said paper plate...
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From: Tradtiger
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Date: 14-Feb-19 |
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Wow! Sight or not, that's great shooting, David! Assume your still using fingers? If you want to shoot the challenge, maybe take off the sight for some warm-up and then try it. Bet you'll do fine because you couldn't shoot the way you describe without impeccable form in your whole shot cycle.
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From: B.T.
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Date: 14-Feb-19 |
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Point on I can hit a paper plate a long ways off. I prefer ping pong balls at 15-25
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From: SB
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Date: 14-Feb-19 |
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After one shot I decided not to push my luck!
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From: David A.
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Date: 14-Feb-19 |
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Tradtiger, I'm using one of my nontechnical releases...couldn't shoot a short hunting bow that well otherwise. Just wish I had the same bow at 35#...300 is definitely doable.
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From: David A.
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Date: 14-Feb-19 |
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"nontechnical" should read "nonmechanical" ...
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From: South Farm
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Date: 15-Feb-19 |
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Keep at it SB; you'll get better someday!
Just kidding, nice shot!
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From: George D. Stout
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Date: 15-Feb-19 |
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The best shooters will have a way to pick a spot on the plate and hit close to it..even without adding a dot to the middle. I usually use a square or rectangle of plain cardboard for close-in shooting. For those longish shots, I'll hand a gallon plastic milk jug from a string. Whatever you do to get more accurate is good, even picking out an off-color piece of straw on a hay bale.
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From: Tradtiger
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Date: 15-Feb-19 |
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Okay, y'all. I just shot this as a Fun Round, since I can't win it, due to being the reining winner. Bettered my previous score; shot 85. Y'all should see what you can do. Need to shoot it and post it tomorrow (2/16). I have a nice prize for the winner. Costs nothing to participate.
Choot it! :)
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From: SB
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Date: 15-Feb-19 |
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How do you get a score on a paper plate?
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From: Sipsey River
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Date: 15-Feb-19 |
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This sounds similar to the Labor Day Leatherwall event on this site the past 3 years.
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From: Tradtiger
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Date: 15-Feb-19 |
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SB: The link in the Original Post goes to the details on the challenge.
But here's the basics: it calls for using a compass to make a 3.25" circle that scores 5 points, with a 6.25" circle that scores 4 points, while the edge of the 9" paper plate bounds the 3 point scoring area (touching the edge of the plate is 3 points); off the plate is Negative 2 points.
Hope this helps. Git er down tomorrow, and good luck! :)
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From: SB
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Date: 15-Feb-19 |
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Ok! I haven't a clue where my compass is though. I can't do links on this dumb phone..I figured the info was somewhere!...thanks! Oh ...can we wait until it is above zero?
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From: SB
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Date: 15-Feb-19 |
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All 20 arrows have to go in one target? I don't have 20 matched arrows for any of my bows! How about four targets of 5 arrows?
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From: SB
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Date: 15-Feb-19 |
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All 20 arrows have to go in one target? I don't have 20 matched arrows for any of my bows! How about four targets of 5 arrows?
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From: DanaC
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Date: 16-Feb-19 |
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yup
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From: dean
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Date: 16-Feb-19 |
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Since my wife wrecked her left arm, I don't shoot paper plates i eat off of them. A paper plate is too big to be a proper gauge. I did the 20 arrow challenge when it came around last year. Too easy, I did it taking many varied shots from 20 to 28 yards with no miss, what's next a smaller plate? Still not sure what it would prove.
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From: Babysaph
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Date: 16-Feb-19 |
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David A. You da man
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From: Rick Barbee
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Date: 16-Feb-19 |
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I didn't know tradtiger was going to post this over here, but since he did:
It's 4 ends of 5 arrows each end, so you "really good" shooters don't have to worry to much about wrecking your arrows. 8^)
Give it a try following the rules put forth in the challenge, and see how you do. You might win a nice prize.
Rick
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From: Rick Barbee
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Date: 16-Feb-19 |
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Well heck. I'm going to sweeten the pot a little. I'll shoot this later today (when it warms up a bit), and turn in my score over there. My entry will not count in the competition. BUT, if whoever wins beats my score, I will throw in an extra prize to them to go along with tradtiger's prize. Getter done. Rick
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From: i
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Date: 16-Feb-19 |
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I'm going to root about for that recent 16" pizza box I binned.
A bit grease stained, but should work :)
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From: Rick Barbee
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Date: 16-Feb-19 |
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I shot this earlier.
For the past two weeks I have been practicing shooting 20 yards, but the majority of that practice been doing the jogging to/from the target between shots. That type practice makes a big difference in both stamina, and shot performance.
Y'all still have time to go get this done.
This is just a picture my my final outcome, but I do have pictures of each end.
Rick
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From: B arthur
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Date: 16-Feb-19 |
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Great shooting Rick
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From: SB
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Date: 16-Feb-19 |
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Rick...where's "over there"?
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From: mangonboat
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Date: 17-Feb-19 |
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I was in a taxidermy shot and another hunter in there was telling the proprietor that he could hit a pie plate from 100 yards with his compound. All I could think of is what a waste of pie, and I wondered what kind of pie it was.
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