Ace Hardware Social Circle Georgia - woman archer!
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You should've stopped by and said hello to Len and Jill a.k.a. Coyote Shadow Tracker LLC
Looks like they have some pretty serious target archers there. Looks like she has some good people to teach her. Good to see this we have a good range at home with some good hunters and target achery following. Most of the target archers do it to be more proficient at hunting.
I did talk with Len on the phone, but he was very busy for a drop-in visit. I have talked with him and a great guy! We are making plans for later.
I was visiting the Clybel Shooting Range just a few miles from Social Circle.
We had lunch at the "Hot Rod Cafe."
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Is that Hannah Barron shooting?
Don't know here name, but she was awesome! Those arrows were in a 3" circle!
Laguna Freak
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Yep. Well tuned equipment and perfect practice makes perfect.
From about 1999 thru 2010, I bow hunted 95% of the time with a Hoyt Hyper Tec. I used to shoot a poly bag at 20 yds in the backyard that had a dozen 1" dots painted on it. My daily regimen after work was to shoot that bag until I went 12 for 12 touching a dot. My other regimen was 60 yards at a paper plate pinned to the bag. I usually settled for 8 arrows in the plate.
I killed a lot in those years. Out near Sonora, I even shot a turkey in the head at 15 yards while he was on 1 foot preening in front of my tent blind when my hen decoys wouldn't lay down for him and my jake was too far away to interest him. That day I had a rattle snake stick his head in my blind and I whacked him good with a broadhead. In 2003, a few weeks before I got UT Golf Club opened, I decapitated a rattler that was crossing the 9th fairway. The guys on the crew and my assistants were razzing me, "You can't hit that snake!" Seems like I took $20 bucks off a couple of 'em that had high confidence I would miss.
Before I moved for the UT gig, we had a great group at Canyon Lake Archery Club and another little archery shop in the hills near New Braunfels where we could practice real world shots and compete on foam wildlife targets. Sometimes we'd play a game where you tried to shoot your opponent's arrow on a bag hung from a tree. We'd flip a coin for first shooter in groups of 2 because only the first shooter got to shoot while the bag was not swinging. It was a friendly gambling game that ruined some fine carbon and aluminum arrows.
Archery is a fabulous sport but it requires serious dedication to avoid wounding animals and losing them.
