Tightning up group size Tip

blgoode

blgoode

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This tip is mainly for beginners and not so advanced guys like myself.

I am like everyone else and get caught up in not hitting the spot I desire and before I know it Im pulling all my shots and not hitting any damn spot I want.

So - Ive been not worrying so much with where the shot hits and trying to run through the shot process and execution of the shot with out throwing the shot off with poor trigger release.

Here is where I left my small practice session yesterday at 45 yards

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Its not terrible but still not as good as where I was shooting 50 yards last fall.

So tonight I took a nock and stuck it in the center of the target. I couldnt really see it much at 45 yards but I was only focusing on the execution and shot release.

I started off the practice session tonight at 45 yards and felt better about the session. This was my last set at 45 yards. Much tighter than the night before when I started out closer and then moved back.

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I really stopped worrying about where my shots hit and just ran through the sequence and the group became tighter naturally.

Then I moved in to see what my group would be at at 26 yards. Id say they tightened up considerably

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You really learn your mistakes at a distance. And I need more than a hunting stabilizer
 
Your target reminds me of an exercise that the guy I learned to shoot from used to make us do (Darwin Kyle, he coached the Olympics and thought everyone should be that good). At any rate, he had steel plates with 1" holes cut in them and you had to shoot 3 arrows. If you hit the steel, you were out a $6 arrow (that you bought from him), but if you busted your fletching or shot an arrow into another arrow, he gave you $10 worth of store credit. It REALLY made you concentrate on your spot and everyone did surprisingly well. It remains the single most important exercise in improving my accuracy and precision.
 
BL. focus focus focus and last but not least - RELAX.. thats the key to shooting well. memorize your anchor points. keep in mind when you put that bow up. sometimes when you get it back out you dont exactly remember where your anchor points are. long distance shooting 35yds +, you will really see your errors. many people ... up in the field bc they do not focus. you have to literally block everything out to where all you know is, you have a bow, you are aiming for your target, and you release. its hard but with practice you will learn to block your surroundings out. good job... we all told you would be addicted. you have came a long ways my man. congrats! btw one day i am gonna buy a knife from you LOL. :thumbup:

PS that little dot trick you used goes along with "aim small, miss small". good job... now when you are trying to plug a deer kind of do the same thing. act like there is a dot or a spot on that deer you want to hit. more times than not if your anchor points are good and you are relaxed and focused, you will nail that shot more times than not.
 
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I REALLY!!!!!!! Love my CBE single pin target sight. Makes adjusting things super simple and as error free. I wouldn't be so eager to adjust it if it weren't do easy. If it was adjust an allen screw and slide by hand I'd not be a happy bow shooter :)

Thanks for the help and I'm thinking I need a better stabilizer for sure.
 
blgoode said:
I REALLY!!!!!!! Love my CBE single pin target sight. Makes adjusting things super simple and as error free. I wouldn't be so eager to adjust it if it weren't do easy. If it was adjust an allen screw and slide by hand I'd not be a happy bow shooter :)

Thanks for the help and I'm thinking I need a better stabilizer for sure.
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why do you think you need a better stabilizer? does it jolt bad when you shoot? do you have string suppressors?
 
I think I need one to minimize how much my sight floats around. The bow is dead in the hand :)
 
blgoode said:
I think I need one to minimize how much my sight floats around. The bow is dead in the hand :)
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dead in the hand is nice... so i assume when you are holding your bow you feel as if its off balance? hence the floating? how do you grip your bow? open fisted or closed? if its closed thats your problem (or one of them).. always open handed shooting. less torqueing of the bow
 
I hold bow open handed and loose fingers. I shot my now with a longer stabilizer once and that seemed to make the amount of float I'm having be reduced by like 30% which is really alot to me :)
 
Always nice to read about someones "AH HA!" moment. I used to shoot archery but got away from it in favor of PPC and rifle shooting. But the tricks I learned really apply to many things. I played darts very seriously and when I switched to soft tips, I just couldn't figure it out. So I said screw it and went and threw 50 games a night, focusing solely on my grouping, once I could put three next to each other every time, I worried about accuracy. So then I move the whole group.


-Xander
 
I am a lucky man and got $100 in cash and a gift card to the local bow shop do I'm buying more arrows. Whoo hoo!!
 
Aim small, miss small :) Concentrating on form & consistant shot timing sequence...shrinks groups fast. Quality over quanity...it's important :)
 
anchor points check.. not torquing the bow..check.. next try shooting the back of the knock instead of hitting your target spot---( your imagining you can see the back portion that is stuck in the target)-- hope that makes sense--- always "shoot through" your spot and your groups will be even smaller.
 
I'm not any kind of great shot with a bow (only ever shot primitive ones), but the most interesting thing about it is the apparent contradiction between the intense focus and complete relaxation you need to achieve simultaneously to be accurate. That is where the zen that people talk about comes from. There is not really a contradiction, of course, but those two mental states rarely exist at the same time in our daily lives.
 
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