Where to practice downhill shots?

[ghenson82]

I'm going on a mule deer bowhunt in Arizona this winter. I'm shooting out to 70 yards on level ground, but want to practice shooting steep uphill & downhill shots. Standing on top of my roof in the neighborhood is frowned upon, so I was hoping to find a big tank dam, hill, river bottom, gravel pit, etc here close to shoot once/twice a month. Anybody have access to something like that? I'm in Cypress & work in Tomball. Thanks

[Raider4044]

Standing on top of my roof in the neighborhood is frowned upon

That was going to be my suggestion. Lol

[matagordian]

Find a dam

[matagordian]

Your not to far from barker/addicks reservoir

[trophy8]

Frowned upon doesn’t mean illegal

Tall tree at the lease? Lol

[ghenson82]

Your not to far from barker/addicks reservoir

I thought about that. Can I legally shoot off the dam into the "reservoir" area?

[3ChordTruth]

Good idea to practice this downhill shot. And don’t know if this might apply to you, but I shoot traditional bows and on downhill shots we trad guys always bend down from the waist to match our level ground sight picture (don't lower bow arm). Good luck on your Arizona mule deer hunt.

[hoythunter02]

Go to any bayou around you..I used to do this in Kingwood.

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[ken]

Your not to far from barker/addicks reservoir

I'd risk the wrath of the neighbors before I shot on Federal government property.

[RifleBowPistol]

Go rent a hotel room, make sure they have at least five stories. Then get a room up on at least the 5th floor, with a balcony. Then set up some targets in the grass and or parking lot, preferably the grass, if you want to reuse your arrows.

If anyone has a problem with you doing this in the day time, wait till around midnight or later. Another option, is if they have a swimming pool, Styrofoam floats and makes a great floating target. Shooting into the water would probably prevent much damage to your arrows.

Just some ideas. Another idea, is find a hill and shoot down hill from the top.

[Tom]

yeah...dont do any shooting around people, hotels or anything like that. learn to aim low...uphill or downhill the amount is the same based upon the angle. its really not near as much as you may think at normal ranges and normal speed bows

[hopedale]

OP

Like someone already posted. Go some place. Get high in a tree and practice.

For up hill I'd recommend finding the closest WMA or public land near you that has hills.

Lake Georgetown has a trail around the lake. Like 25 miles around.

I can promise you on that trail there are uphill climbs as well as downhill.

When you find the downhill area you like, move out a few yards to get away from the main trail.

Its to dam hot otherwise, I'd go on the trail I went on to get to my stand. But here is hwere you park -

[asu-indian]

I don't want to get too technical here but I usually practice downhill shots from uphill and uphill shots from downhill.

BTW I'm trying to identify the artist in your avatar. Beckendorf? Drinkard?

[brokeno]

Tripod

[stickerpatch59]

That was going to be my suggestion. Lol

frowned apon???? as long as your arrow doesn't go over your property lines you should be ok imo