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Target anxiety
Black Moshannon:
That makes sense, I’ll give it a go. I am focusing a lot on my form right now and not so much on the focus on the target. I’m hoping to make the form automatic and ingrained. I’ll start drawing and suddenly I’ll go weak and just draw quickly and release without coming to a strong anchor, allowing things to settle down, focusing on the spot, and releasing cleanly. I know I need to incorporate that sense of making the arrow go where I will it to.
Pat B:
Once you get the arrow going where you want it to go the rest will be peripheral and just happen naturally. When your form and release are perfected your muscle memory will carry you through with your shooting so you can concentrate on hitting that "SPOT".
The last 2 deer I shot with a compound, probably 35+ years ago, I remember putting tension on the string and the next thing I saw my bloody arrow in the ground, both perfect shots but I don't remember either. I had replaced the cams with wheels for smoother draw and I was shooting instinctive, without sights. These last 2 hunts made me put the compound away and started instinctive shooting a FG recurve. Around that time I started building selfbows...and the rest is history.
Black Moshannon:
That’s where I want to get soon, where the technique is ingrained into my muscle memory. Plus getting deer would be great too. Today the first shot of each set, one each hour, has been a good shot. I won’t be going back out in the field until I can hit a groundhogs kill zone with the first shot every time at ten yards
StickMark:
Hey Kenneth,
I have gone up in draw weight to use thicker mulefat shafting. I like thicker walls around the pith as well. You are not alone in that regard.
Black Moshannon:
--- Quote from: StickMark on July 14, 2020, 04:41:08 pm ---Hey Kenneth,
I have gone up in draw weight to use thicker mulefat shafting. I like thicker walls around the pith as well. You are not alone in that regard.
--- End quote ---
Oh that’s good to know I’m not the only one. At some point I tried to think this through: cutting a notch for the nock and cutting in a big enough slot for a stone point would require a certain size diameter with these rose shoots anyways. And sizing them down to flex enough to accommodate say a 45 pound bow seemed to get them into the danger zone. Makes me wonder if the Natives chose types of shafts to fit their weight bow. Love thinking about it.
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