How to Use Field Range Technique in Archery

Field range archery practice is designed to make you more proficient with your bow in a real life hunting situation. Unlike target range archery, field archery often requires you to make the best of a less than ideal situation. Apply the steps below for field range archery.

Difficulty: Challenging

Instructions

1. Practice estimating distance in different areas and under different light conditions. The ability to accurately gage distance is one of the field archer's most valuable skills.

2. Familiarize yourself with shooting your bow intuitively. This involves looking along the length of your drawn arrow rather than on your fixed sight.

3. Shoot your bow in varying wind conditions and from varying directions. Compensating for cross wind on a field archery range will take time, but the skill is an important one.

4. Shoot from an elevated position if you plan to bow hunt from a tree stand. Shooting from an acclivity tends to make you overshoot the target, so you should adjust your field range accordingly.

5. Shoot at moving targets if any are available on the field archery range. You must develop an understanding of how far you may need to lead your targets.

6. Practice quick draw shots. This requires that you move through the range and have targets presented randomly to you in a kind of "Hogan's Alley" scenario.

Tips & Warnings

• Shooting a long bow or recurve promotes a better understanding of the intuitive shooting method than shooting a compound does. Training with one of these older bows will promote a better field condition performance.

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