Several months ago I decided totry and change my shooting style from "Instictive" (I know there is no such thing according to some) to an actual repeatable aiming process and shot sequence. It was rough going in the beginning and very hard not to purposely and inadvertently revert back to my normal method. But After several half hearted and failed attempts I completely changed everything.
Went from split finger no glove, to 3 under with a tab (Thanks RickBarbee), changed my anchor point from my pointer finger touching my canine tooth to pointer finger between my cheek bone and my right nostril and the nock touching the point of my cheek bone directly under my right eye.
With the higher nock anchor it has placed the arrow to where I can look straight down the shaft at the target. This made "putting the point on the target" make way more sense, as shooting with my original anchor point made it impossible to look down the arrow and only confused me as to what everyone was talking about.
I changed to a longer heavier arrow but a lighter point weight. went to standard inserts and 175 grain tips instead of the 100 grain inserts and 300 grain points I was shooting. Flattened out the trajectory substantially and gave me an approximate 9" hold under at anything under 22 yds and a point on at 30yds.
Went from a touch and go type of shooting sequence to a solid anchor and 2 count after settling the point where I want it.
All these changes showed to be making improvements in my accuracy while shooting at the house, but it has always been easy to get accuracy at a known distance on a familiar target in my back yard. Finally put it to the test last night and saw a marked difference in my shooting at the local 3D course. I shot a 174 on a 20 target course with targets ranging from 11 yds out to 23.
I have to say I hated the process and started to give up on it several times because breaking 7 yrs worth of good and bad habits was not enjoyable, but after last nights results I must say this aiming thing kinda doesn't suck.
Went from split finger no glove, to 3 under with a tab (Thanks RickBarbee), changed my anchor point from my pointer finger touching my canine tooth to pointer finger between my cheek bone and my right nostril and the nock touching the point of my cheek bone directly under my right eye.
With the higher nock anchor it has placed the arrow to where I can look straight down the shaft at the target. This made "putting the point on the target" make way more sense, as shooting with my original anchor point made it impossible to look down the arrow and only confused me as to what everyone was talking about.
I changed to a longer heavier arrow but a lighter point weight. went to standard inserts and 175 grain tips instead of the 100 grain inserts and 300 grain points I was shooting. Flattened out the trajectory substantially and gave me an approximate 9" hold under at anything under 22 yds and a point on at 30yds.
Went from a touch and go type of shooting sequence to a solid anchor and 2 count after settling the point where I want it.
All these changes showed to be making improvements in my accuracy while shooting at the house, but it has always been easy to get accuracy at a known distance on a familiar target in my back yard. Finally put it to the test last night and saw a marked difference in my shooting at the local 3D course. I shot a 174 on a 20 target course with targets ranging from 11 yds out to 23.
I have to say I hated the process and started to give up on it several times because breaking 7 yrs worth of good and bad habits was not enjoyable, but after last nights results I must say this aiming thing kinda doesn't suck.
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