Bowhunting How-to- Shooting Practice

Hey everybody, this is PJ Reilly from Lancaster Archery. Coming to you today, we wanted to talk to you about the importance of practicing shooting your bow in the way that you are gonna hunt. Whether it's from a tree stand or a ground line, you wanna make sure you work some of those shooting scenarios into your practice sessions. It's finally nice weather, we're getting outside to shoot our bows. You probably hear some gunshots in the background. We're at a shooting club. Everybody just wants to get outside finally and do some shooting. So when you're shooting with your bow, the natural thing of course is to stand on the ground and shoot at a target down range. That's fine, you're gonna shoot thousands of arrows like that, no problem. But, wanna make sure that you also practice shooting how you're gonna hunt. If you're a tree stand hunter or a ground line hunter, there's some unique features there in your shooting that you wanna stay familiarized with so that come next fall, nothing surprises you. So we got a couple scenarios set up here and we're gonna do a little shooting. You don't realize how much stability you give up when you take your legs out of the equation. Just when you have to sit down, your body is a lot more unstable than if you're standing up. So, we wanna take a couple shots like this. There's two shooting scenarios when you're in a stool situation like this, which would be shooting across both of your legs or sometime you may be caught to where your legs are kind of split and you're shooting this way. If you have a preference, obviously practice that but you might wanna practice both just in case. Obviously, when you're shooting from a tree stand, there are angles that you have to take into account when you're a bow hunter. Where are the vitals from an elevated position versus being down at the ground. And there's just some things with shooting form. You wanna make sure you bend at the waist. Don't just drop your front arm to take aim. Just some things to keep in mind when you're shooting from a tree stand and the best way to do that is to just practice. That's it guys, just some practice things to think of this off season.