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Point on distance for my setup
Black Moshannon:
Shot at friends 3Ds in the woods today. Most shots were around fifteen yards, the longest shots were twenty. This time almost all my shots were good kill hits, I only missed target three or four times. I have refined the shot cycle more to put some things like draw to load and lift into anchor out of my mental shot directions since they are easy to do and are coming to me automatically now, so now my shot cycle has only three verbal directions with a lot of focus and control. Even though I was shooting with someone who is a very good instinctive shot I held it together to make solid shots. So getting somewhere finally…
bradsmith2010:
work on your 5 and 10 yard shot alot,, the deer will hate you
Black Moshannon:
I changed my point on back to 25 yards. I lowered my nock points to level. I just wasn’t getting as good arrow flight. My fifteen yard gap is about fifteen inches. Today I did something for the first time maybe in my life, I strung my bow stood at 25 yards and drew and aimed at the 8 inch black circle I cut out of an oil bottle and shot the shot right into the center of it. I had a panic feeling to let the string go early when I saw the arrow aimed in the spot but I forced myself to finish the shot cycle. And it paid off big time. I went on shooting and it was the best session. I am really getting excited. This is going somewhere finally
Black Moshannon:
And that was a cold shot, there was no warm up of any kind.
On a separate note I’m thinking my fifteen yard and in shots will become more or less instinctively aimed. As in I will aim the arrow point but my subconscious will choose where to aim it, I will just let instinct take that over. I won’t worry over where it is aimed but will just trust it. So I’ll know roughly where to point but the exact dialed in spot to hit dead center, that’ll be instinct. Will see how this goes.
BowEd:
You'll get it the way your going.If you think too much while your shooting it leads to bad shots.Your mind needs to be free and just the shooting routine followed through.It took me thousands upon thousands of shots to get there.
Every hunting season is different.If every deer gave me 2 shots I'd kill them all.....ha ha.
I guess I was lucky last year.3 arrows and 3 dead deer within 40 yards.
This year could be different.
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