Bowhunting rules.

It adds months to your hunting season. It challenges you to bring your A-game, and success means getting heart-in-your-ears, can’t-hardly-breathe close to your quarry.

To make the most of this year’s bowhunting season, here are a few tips and tactics to help you shoot better, hunt smarter, and fill your tag:

Upgrade Your Gear

High-quality archery gear performs better and will help you perform better. Upgrading to a faster crossbow has major advantages. All things being equal, it shoots a flatter arrow, making exact range estimation less critical. But the biggest advantage to a blazing bow is that it lets you shoot a heavier arrow sporting a heavier head without giving up too much in trajectory. This adds up to more momentum and better penetration, neither of which makes any difference if you make a perfect shot, but if you screw up, they can turn an otherwise nonlethal shot into a filled tag.

Shoot with Others

Not only is it more fun, shooting with others forces you to practice under pressure. Shooting at a big buck gets the heart pumping and the nerves racking. Recreate that feeling by shooting with others to teach yourself to steel your nerves while at full draw. So grab some buddies, set up your SpyderWeb Target and a few backyard archery games, and let the smack talk fly with the arrows.

Train in Low Light

Most bow shots at mature whitetail bucks happen during either the first or the final ticks of daylight when sight pins dim and your peep sight seems to shrink. So devote some practice time to the opening and closing minutes of legal light in your area to prep for this crunch time and to learn your maximum effective range in low light. And count on it being tighter than you expect.

Make the Most of Target Practice

You don’t have to shoot 500 arrows a day to become a better archer. After all, you only get one shot in the moment of truth. So focus on making each arrow count. Even if you only shoot for a few minutes a day, if you use that time with intention and purpose you will be amazed at how quickly you improve. And when you practice with a SpyderWeb Target, you’ll be able to spend more of your short practice time actually shooting instead of expending half of your time and energy trying to pull arrows out of your target.

At SpyderWeb Targets, we want you to spend more time shooting and less time and money retrieving and replacing bolts. 

If you’re ready to welcome us into your archery equipment family, check out our products to see which target fits your shooting needs. You can also check out our Facebook page or read verified customer reviews to see what people are saying about SpyderWeb Targets.