Labor day Weekend hunting shot challenge. Try this out to learn how ready you really are for hunting season. Cut out a 5 inch circle and pin it to your target. Take 10 cold shots at this target from 10 yards. Only 10, no more, no less. Only Cold muscle shots. No warm ups, no pushups, just cold muscles just like you would have in your blind or stand waiting for a deer to come by. Step out side, take a shot, collect your arrow and go inside. No practicing in between to keep your muscle warm! Go inside and watch some football and in another hour or so, go out and take one more cold shot on your target and go inside. Repeat this every hour until too dark to shoot, then wake up in the morning and start again. No warm ups! Do this until all 10 shots are taken. If ALL 10 cold shots are inside the circle, make another 5" target and start again at 12 yards and so on until your shots land outside the circle. If ALL your 10 yard shots are not inside this circle, step up to 8 yards and start over. This is a true test of your cold shot accuracy. Feel free to post a picture of your target if you like, however this isn't a competition to see who can shoot the best, the only person you'll cheat is yourself in this game. If you are truly honest with yourself on every shot, you'll learn where your real hunting shot distances are. I am not comfortable shooting a deer at any range that all 10 shots are not inside this circle during practice! Here is my 10 yard test. I am confident at 10 yards, time to step back and start a test at 12yards. (If you think 5" is too small a target, take notice to the next small doe you kill and lay a 5 inch circle on the vitals, you'll be surprised how easy it is to actually make a less than perfect shot in any larger a circle)
