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Aiming at small ground level targets

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Pat B:
The secret to good shooting is practice, practice, practice..., consistency in every part of your shot from siteing the target, draw, anchor and release and complete concentration in where the arrow WILL go. Shooting at a target won't do it. You have to pick a spot, the smaller the better and know the arrow WILL go there.
 Like tradslinger I also believe that smaller targets will put the arrow closer to that point but you have to believe it. At my target butt I have a rigid conduit frame in about 3' in front of the butt. I hang a string from this with something small tied it and that is what I sometimes shoot at. Once it's hit it swings making it more of a challenge but with practice and concentration it can easily be done.

HH~:
If your aiming system is solid>>-----> Form work is all you really must perform. Shooting anything is a perishable skill so it goes without saying you have refresh those skills. Will practice get you there with the lack of a solid aiming system..... Ah, that with be a big NO. File the sights off your 45 ACP and i will use mine whose gonna put em in ten ring consistantly?

HH~

ssrhythm:
First thing that came to mind is that you are likely not bending at the waist and orienting your upper body toward the target the way it is when you are shooting at something at waist-to-head level.  Dropping arm causing you to miss...then adjusting arm to compensate producing up/down inconsistency.  I try to practice elevated shots, but its difficult when there are no trees in your yard, and no climbable trees in the state!  Practicing the way you are seems like a great idea, and I'm going to start doing that.  I'm also going to start trying to find somewhere to shoot uphill, as I'm sure I'll find myself having to do so when hunting here in Wyoming and I guess the same issue will be in play just in reverse.  So, thanks for starting this thread!

HH~:
Shhoting up or down is same. Arrow impacts higher than over a flat plane. The best thing any archer can do is practice range estimation.

I use to practice this with my father. I asked him how he always seemed beat other guts shooting 2d comp in 70-80s. He always said “ because i pratice range estimation out to 80yds alot. We shoot about the same on known targets but when we shoot unknown distance in shoots 2yds off your range estimation and best shooter cant win”.

One of the first or maybe the very first turkeys killed in my state after re introduction was taken by my father. He took it at 70yds. I asked “ how is that possible”?

He says “ well , we shoot that 2d turkey target out to 60yds and i knew it was about 10yds further. Luck dont hurt either”. Bird was behind a barbed wire fence he could not see. Arrow looked good he said but the kicked and sailed into air and bird just fluttered and spun in a circle. Arrow hit wire, defected and cut birds head nearly off.

HH~

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