Stump shooting

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bstan86
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Stump shooting

#1 Post by bstan86 » Sun Nov 22, 2015 3:48 pm

These days I have been getting into it almost every afternoon after work, even if just in the house yard and not roaming our 100 acres.




Do you have certain preferences, gear or methods when stump shooting?


For example:

- if I'm with someone else whoever hits closest to the chosen target chooses the next one.
- I have blunts of the same weight on the same shafts I use for hunting.
- I tend to only take shots at distances that I would comfortably shoot at game (although this fun long shots are sometimes hard to pass up).
- I pretend each shot is a shot at a game animal so try and shoot from different positions.
- I have taken a shine to the rubber blunts lately - mainly because they seem a bit more forgiving on the arrow if they do hit a rock or some other hard object.
- I tend to avoid shots where my arrow is likely to die. :lol:

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Re: Stump shooting

#2 Post by matt61 » Sun Nov 22, 2015 4:39 pm

Don't shoot stumps here in Aus mate, they are to damned hard and will kill your arra's.
Where I live we have California Thistles that grow about three feet tall and I get my eye
in by walking along and trying to shoot the flowers off them using Judo points. Good Fun!! :biggrin:
I always have a couple of arrows with Judo's points on them in the bow quiver
when going hunting and start flinging them at leaves and sticks on the ground as soon
as I leave the car to get warmed up and my eye in.
Matt

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Re: Stump shooting

#3 Post by bstan86 » Sun Nov 22, 2015 5:45 pm

hey Matt I like the Judos as well but they are pricey.

the rubber blunts are great but they can bounce a bit at times (better than burrowing though).

my other favoured head for this stuff is these:

http://www.kustomkingarchery.com/SGT-Sm ... info/7503/

strong, simple and do the job very well.

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Re: Stump shooting

#4 Post by UPTHETOP » Sun Nov 22, 2015 9:19 pm

Nothing wrong with stump shooting and roving grew up doing it and still do it nearly every time I go bush. Just plain old field points for me.

Cheers Wayno
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Re: Stump shooting

#5 Post by bstan86 » Mon Nov 23, 2015 9:53 am

Hey Wayno do you have trouble with them burrowing under the grass?


I suppose if you pick shot angles carefully they'll always just stick in nicely.

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Re: Stump shooting

#6 Post by UPTHETOP » Thu Dec 10, 2015 3:06 pm

bstan I usually just file the ends with a file so they are blunt to start with, stops them sticking into logs and stumps as well.

Cheers Wayno
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