Target Panic Anyone?

[squirrellluck]

Anyone else have this problem with bullseye targets or 5 spot targets? Put a single spot up or a game target I can hit very accurately and with tite groupings but... Put up a bullseye and I'll just as likely miss the whole target. Been this way since I started shooting bows 30 years ago. In Indiana there was a little bow shop and range I used a lot. The owner found great delight in putting up bullseye target and watching me go nuts after shooting paper spots taped to the backstop. Said he had never seen such a severe case in all his years in archery. I shoot pretty well otherwise, even won a few 3D shoots. But bullseyes Don't have this problem with firearms just traditional archery.

[All Hawks Kill]

I've always been able to shoot better at one small target or at 3d animals.  When I'm shooting at arrow stop bags, I generally cover it with something and put one of those small sticky back rifle targets on it, then shoot.  I perfer a 3d deer target, and get my best results (groups) shooting at them.

[Cottonwood]

I don't use bullseye or 5 spot targets with traditional shooting, but use 3-D or bag target for a center mass hit.

No target panic involved in snap shooting.

[squirrellluck]

Cottonwood, I only shoot traditional equipt. Snap shooting is how I shoot. Never had this problem with guns or when I strayed and tried compounds. I just can't focus with all them rings out there I guess Good thing deer and hogs don't have rings like that Squirrels neither. So I suppose its not a problem unless somebody paints them!

[Cottonwood]

Yep, the richardson ground squirrel's this past week at camp, didn't stand a chance as my arrows found their mark.