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PEARL DRUMS:
You will be surprised to find that form far out trumps concentration. You can burn a hole through a target with your eyes and none of that matters until your anchor point is the same each shot, your grip is the same each shot, your elbow is level on each shot and so on. Most of us have adequate hand/eye coordination from the start.

Pappy:
Form and trying to keep my mind clear of distractions are the main things for me. If I do that I usually hit what I am looking at or very close to it. :)
   Pappy

Chief RID:
Hey Dor. As usual I know I skirted around your question. My concentration varies from day to day and session to session. Limiting caffeine is one thing that seems to help me. My attitude when I go out to shoot, seems to be another. Surroundings and sight picture is another. I think hitting the target when these things are a factor during practice and in the field is what helps your memory of how to make the shot. Knowing you can make the shot and repeatedly doing it helps focus. Sometimes knowing when to abandon the shot or the session, if that is an option may be the only choice. I guess then you have to decide, do I continue to make the shot while shooting bad or do I change something so I am making the shot. We have to shot and miss while competing and hunting but we don't during practice. You know all that. How do I keep focus or improve it? I don't. It comes and goes. If I could stay in the zone I would have had a career in the NBA.

crooketarrow:
  Don't even worry about the distance you shoot. Learn to get set up close, most people are pertty good at 12 yards.

  I'll pick a small a spot as I can in the front leg crease or a feather on a gobbler. Never take my eye off that spot unitll I hear my arrow hits. I don't  know how it happens But next thing I know the arrows in the buck or gobbler. All I remember touching my ankor.

Same with shooting across the lawn or stump shooting. Don't do anything untill you hear your arrow hit. Follow through go's along way,and thats what your doing lissening for your arrow to hit.

 Nothing special it's all learned.

Distance I don't worry about it.

 I set up close.

  Works for me.

Chief RID:
Listening for the arrow to hit. I am definitely going to try that. I think it will help with my flyers. Most seem to be some breakdown of form or loss of the spot.

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