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Nate:
Thanks Pete. I'll try to look that up. I was shooting a bit this morning in the basement. ( it's cold and snowy outside) I tried coming to full draw while aiming at a spot, then glancing down at the back of my bow hand and back at my target spot before releasing. Shot amazingly accurately.  Any ruffed grouse would have been in mortal danger at the 17 yards I can manage in my basement. So interesting how our minds work isn't it?

DC:
 I was almost always releasing to soon. I kept thinking that my bows were too heavy until one day I noticed that if I was just exercising a bow I could pull 40# quite easily but if I was shooting I could only manage 35 or so. So now I just buck up and pull. Knowing that I can do it has helped a lot. I still have to concentrate or the arrow is gone before full draw.

PeteC:
It is amazing Nate. Just diverting focus helped for a while,then I began to have the same old problem.To keep the focus in check I have to ask myself  the ? I mentioned earlier. If I do this every shot,I can keep enough control. Without it,I'll slip back into TP. DC,I hear you. I try to break down the steps of the shot ,"seamlessly";point,come to anchor,just barely making contact with the corner of my mouth,finish aim,then tense my back muscles to fully anchor,and a pull through release.It's a wonder how something that used to be so simple for 40 years or so has gotten to be so demanding,that is,If I'm going to shoot at the level I used to. God Bless

PEARL DRUMS:

--- Quote from: DC on December 11, 2015, 01:19:24 pm --- I was almost always releasing to soon. I kept thinking that my bows were too heavy until one day I noticed that if I was just exercising a bow I could pull 40# quite easily but if I was shooting I could only manage 35 or so. So now I just buck up and pull. Knowing that I can do it has helped a lot. I still have to concentrate or the arrow is gone before full draw.

--- End quote ---

That's the problem DC. You are focused on your draw. That's very similar to my issue. To be "good" all we can focus on is a target, the rest of the shot cant be a conscious thought. Muscle memory has to take over, as well as our sub-conscious.

DC:
One thing that bothers me is temporary fixes. If I come up with an idea, say, concentrate on feeling my finger touch my eye tooth, I get full draw for about 10 shots. Then it doesn't seem to work any more. I've tried concentrating about things that happen before release and things that happen after release. They all seem to help for a while. As soon as I turn it over to my subconscious it goes west. I wonder if I damaged it in the 70's ;D

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