Ensuring proper shot placement for turkey
Taking a headshot on a turkey instead of a body shot became the secret to my success. Now, I can easily pick out and focus on my target.
Taking a headshot on a turkey instead of a body shot became the secret to my success. Now, I can easily pick out and focus on my target.
There are so many different traditional archery styles and methods to aim, which the average person just getting started might not realize.
I had to watch every step I took through the thick grass, reeds, and bulrushes. I was making my way alongside the meandering stream in the lush flats below the beaver dam.
Crispin Duenas picked up a bow in 2000 and has been aiming forward — carefully — ever since. Duenas is among Canada’s recurve archer elite, having competed in the Olympic Games at Beijing 2008, London 2012, Rio 2016, as well as in three Pan American games.
A gun hunter can take advantage of the longer archery season with a bow that feels like a rifle without the long learning curve of a vertical bow.