Square Up To Learn Vitals In The Wind

Out here getting in some practice. This is essentially still week one of changing over to my hunting setup. So right now I've increased the poundage on my bow. I'm getting, I'm going to try to get closer to hunting weight each week. So I've increased that. I went to my hunting arrow. The next thing I did was get a proper sight scale because one of the things that's important is just learning to know how your bow is grouping and making sure your sight scale is correct. A lot of people don't really focus on absolutely perfecting that sight scale, but you really have to make sure you've got a good pair of binos or a good range finder. These binos have a range finder, but make sure your sight marks are matching your actual impact perfectly. The other thing you'll notice too is I've changed my longer targets have the squares on there and there's several reasons why I prefer the squares for aiming, but I'm going to use this as an opportunity right now. We're starting to get some wind coming through here and it's supposed to get windier here in the next hour. So I will be practicing in the wind pretty heavy, but I use the square as a judge because I can aim at the edge of the square and then see where I'm drifting. It's really important to have some type of a mark. For me, circles, I don't know really where I'm at in a circle. When it comes to a round pin and a square, my brain takes a mental snapshot of where my pin was when that shot broke. So it kind of helps me to learn to aim at the edge of the vitals so that I can see how that arrow is affected as it's guiding in. Okay, right there the wind is starting, wind's blowing. You can see it a little bit down there at the top of the trees, but I was aiming left edge of that square at that distance. Now I'm going to go 10 yards further and I'm going to be holding just off that edge. Lefts and rights were good. It's a little bit at the top of the square, but that was almost three quarters of a square drift. Now I'm going to go down to the ram. I'll go elk actually. Go straight to the elk and so for me this is going to be, I'm going to put a pin on the edge of the square and then give it one more pin and see how that drift is. Oh, that is perfect. The last key I'm going to give you when it comes to like learning your gear in the wind is I try to find a spot where the wind isn't crushing me, but the arrow, once the arrow is getting out away from this calm spot, you can see it start to get affected by that wind. So right here, aimed straight up. Great. Went to my squares and just continually walked outside, but still had kill shots all the way through. The squares are such awesome training tools, not only for aiming reticles, but also for learning to use the wind to understand your ballistics.