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I never had the desire to hunt turkeys. I don't know why, maybe I just had other goals.

When I hunted blacktail in central California last summer, I saw my first wild turkey up close and personal. By the end of the hunt, with a great buck on the ground, I had seen at least a hundred birds. I said to myself, "Self, why haven't you ever hunted these birds? They are all over!"  I thought about those turkeys almost every day leading up to the next turkey season, and I bought every video and call I could find. The week prior to the hunt, that diaphragm call didn't leave my mouth. Everyone I knew and worked with were annoyed as could be.

When you engage in archery, or any individual sport for that matter, what are your goals – against whom or what do you compete?

When you begin each time, are you focusing on a “best” score or the best scores of others? That may not be a path to success. Focusing on the most that is attainable at the moment or the performance of other people may do two things that are not desirable. One is that you may be “setting the bar” too high. The second is that you are splitting your concentration between what you need to do and what others are or have done.