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Still can't break the target panic
crooketarrow:
HALF EYE'S right for some people touch can break your panic.
Heres what I did in the ealy 90's. And this is how I broke it. At the time I worked for a surveyer that was totally into HOWARD HILL.
My target panicwas so bad I had nothing to lose. So I learned to aim and shoot HILL syle.
His way of aiming works great shooting distance. I mean at 50 yards I could put 10 arrows in the end of a hay bail.
But unfortently closer you shoot 20 or under you shoot instivite. The ways I buck hunt are all shoot under 15 yards. So I unknowinglly steped by and shot instintive.
DOING THIS CURED MY TRAGET PANIC. iT'S NEVER CAME BACK.
Some people just get close at a bail don't but a traget on it. Ans just shoot. In the dark helps some people
Some people only shoot at a natural looking deer target.
Mo_coon-catcher:
I appreciate the advice everyone. Pearl drums that's a very generous offer, if your still interested in letting me borrow the DVDs let me know and I'll take you up on the offer. What you guys describes where you start out shooting well but eventually fall apart, start short drawing, and becoming sporadic is what happens to me. And the worse my agooting gets the more I mess up and the shorter I start drawing. I feel like I need to gain that control of my shot. right now it is to where that when snap shooting on my better days I usually maintain a grapefruit sized cluster to about 15-20 yards depending on the day, but once I start missing I go way downhill and missing by a yard or more as close as 10 yards at times.
After some thinking i realized that over the last few years I havnt had one bow that I stick to for most of my shooting. Most of the shooting I end up doing is when I make a bow for someone I shoot it a bunch then it goes on to its new home. I'm feeling like that could be a major culprit of my problem, I've never had one bow that I have learned and adjusted to. I think I need to make a habit of every time I test shoot a new bow to start and finish with my main bow.
Thanks for the advice everyone, and if you have any more tips to give I feel like this thread will help out more reading this thread than just me. Which I hope it does.
Thanks,
Kyle
PEARL DRUMS:
Send me your address Kyle. I'll try to ship the DVD's in the next day or three. My name is on the covers, please be sure I get them back when your done. I will forget where I sent them, I'm relying on your memory kid-o!
Mo_coon-catcher:
Thanks a bunch pearl drums. I won't forget where they came from. I sent you a PM.
Thanks
Kyle
H Rhodes:
What has helped me is to develope a shot sequence. I try to do the same thing every shot like a doggone machine. It sounds silly but here is my shot: 1. find the tiny little spot that I want to hit. 2. tap shooting glove against my right thigh so fingers are down in it right. 3. cant bow and take a good grip with my forearm lined up with arrow. 4. Raise that canted bow with the nocked arrow pointed at my spot. 5. Draw to anchor and shoot while only focusing on that tiny spot. When my thumb knuckle fits under my cheek bone the arrow is gone. I can't think about too many things at one time. I check these things off my mental list and if my focus on the tiny little spot is good, that arrow won't be too far out of the kill zone. That is all I have to offer except for to END ON A GOOD NOTE in every practice session. You can really mess your own mind up with this archery stuff if you practice in a bad state of mind. End each session with a good group. I can only concentrate properly for up to maybe fifty shots - some days half that. After that I am just flinging arrows. If you start analyzing, correcting and overcorrecting problems that are showing up during times of lost concentration, you can ruin your shooting. Grapefruit size groups make meat Kyle. I think you are a good shot, you just have to break your shot down to some simple parts that you can repeat and keep on building your confidence. Everyone has there own style and you don't have to complare your shot to anyone else's. You have to find what works for you. This is a good thread and I hope some of you more accomplished target shooters will chime in.
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