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Guessed:
Hehe, I know what 'OP' means, I also can't hit anything. Today I was out "grouse" hunting when I found one sitting on a branch about 10 feet away. 10 feet away (!!), 2 arrows and I missed it, twice.

I dunno, I only advise 'practice.' Try putting a little dot on your bow above where you place your arrows and learn to use that as your 'bead.' It's what I'm going to do tomorrow.

('cause that grouse looked tasty!)

lostarrow:
Are you shooting from the same distance all of the time and still shooting high and low? Do you have a solid nocking point on your string?Is that nocking point set where it should be or is your arrow porpoising?  Are your arrows matched for weight as well as spine? Are you checking your arrows for straightness before you shoot? Need more info.

crooketarrow:
   Your going through what most instantive hunts go through with picking a spot. A the last min in the excitement of haveing a live deer that close. At the last second you eye go's to the most prononced thing there is. THE HORZONIAL LINE OF THE DEERS BACK. I've spine shot so many deer I don't even want to tell you. I think I have 6 or 7 broad heads in vertabrays I've cut out and saved. It's the difference in the deers horzonial back line and it's color and the back grounds color that draws you eye to it that last second. It's stuck in your bain and it's hard to get out.
  Thats the main reason people shoot high.
  Ohter than the wrong arrow spine. The left and right is your canting the bow differently. I only thats a fraction at the bow to make inchs down range.

JW_Halverson:
Crooketarrow makes a great point, pun intended.  Lot of us have airmailed arrows right over a deer's back.  Many of us when shooting at a buck send one right thru the horns like a NFL kicker splitting the uprights.  Guess where you were looking?!?!?!    >:D

I look for that little pocket right under the deer's elbow.  Drill your eyes into that spot like you are trying to burn the hair off with your lazer eyesight...then shoot that spot.

Ranger B:
An aiming system would probably help you.  Have you thought about learning to gap shoot? 

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