Great subject and fine comments.
During the hottest days of last summer I would wait till after sundown to shoot , so I didn’t expose the bow to too much heat . Would do the one arrow thing ,,,,stumping fashion , in the yard , one shot, then return back inside the house where the AC has me spoiled . 30 minutes later would repeat, and so on till too dark .
This really helped me in consistency .
Having degenerative disc disease and arthritis I find that anytime I attempt to stick more than two consecutive arrows in the foam target my group will fall apart on the third arrow . Like others ,,stumping does me more good ,,,and only use one arrow. Sometimes 5 shots ,,,sometimes 25. If the first few are spot on I’ll quit .
I generally have a small brushpile out back . Taking shots at elevated targets , like the dried up maple leaves on the brushpile edge and even a tennis ball size pear hanging on the limb is one way of mixing more type shots into practice. The 250 grain Hammer is very impressive on pears . Kinda like the 17HMR and a can of coke .
