Great post Jamie, on days i'm not feeling it and the shots aren't going where they should be i have either quit for the day or i step up to 10 yards and just shoot some easy ones.You are right "feel good shots".
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18 yards this morning.
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I used to be really good with these things. I know I've told Jamie before that reading "Instinctive Shooting " by Fred Asbell dang near ruined me. Having shot rather poorly last time out, I thought about what I'd done wrong. And for those of you that are relatively new to this, thinking back on good shots vs poor shots does work. Visualization, they call it. Anyway, I strolled out there today and pounded the targets after realizing my issue the other day was a demon I picked up from that blasted book! I shot about as good today as I have in the last 20 years or so. It's easy when you do it right. Tomorrow I won't do it right.
Today went very well for me. 20 yds and under is making me really confident.
At the longer ranges, I often find myself pulling shots left. I can only figure it's either a shitty follow through or a "bumpy" release. Or both. Either way, when I get it right it feels really good and the shot is usually true. I need to keep working at the longer ranges where there's less room for error. It'll only make those sub-20 shots that much better.
At the longer ranges, I often find myself pulling shots left. I can only figure it's either a shitty follow through or a "bumpy" release. Or both. Either way, when I get it right it feels really good and the shot is usually true. I need to keep working at the longer ranges where there's less room for error. It'll only make those sub-20 shots that much better.
Look at that,ya take the antlers away and ya get nerves of steel.Lol Nice shootin Jamie.
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Generally, pulling to the left comes from holding the bow at anchor vs pulling through. It's easy to do, hard to self diagnose.
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I was late getting my arrow loose today. It was ok, 25 yards.
That makes a lot of sense and is probably exactly what is happening. Holding string hand at anchor, then the tension on the bow arm yanks it left when I release.
Tonight's shooting was excellent. I shot a bunch of haphazard random ranges, from standing and kneeling... My first 10 shots were are perfect kill shots. Then as fatigue settled in my accuracy suffered. I'm happy with it.
OO2
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Nice shooting gentlemen!
Looking forward to someone’s cold shot that has some blood in the picture in the next coming weeks
Looking forward to someone’s cold shot that has some blood in the picture in the next coming weeks
I went to shoot my bow for first time this year yesterday. Boy, I better get back into it lol. I did pretty good I was aiming at the green spot. For all three shots I took was 25 yards I made a mistake for first pin I had pinned on the decoy thinking it was 25 yards but it was 20 and you can see the yellow dot so it dropped down alot. To get it right this time for 25 yard and look between the 20 and 30 yard pin as you can see on the blue dot for 2nd shot is right where I was aiming at. Exactly what I wanted. 3rd shot I took on the green dot was a little up behind the shoulder. I'm happy with that. Will try again until I get the
hang of it
Knocked the target over a 15. I'm very pleased with my shooting this evening. No upper body workout today helped I suppose.
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Went out today after work to practice some more. Did alot better. 25 yards.
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Those look sweet! That would be awesome to kill a deer with wood arrows and homemade feathers.
Several of you trad shooters are gonna kill several real nice deer this year! It’s friggin awesome seeing more and more joining in the fray. 
Y’all are shooting some super consistent cold shots too! I mean TOO
Y’all are shooting some super consistent cold shots too! I mean TOO
20 yards, frI'm the garage roof. $$$$
15 yds was a little more forward than I wanted bud it'll kill a deer for sure. Need to screw on some Stingers and start shooting them too.
15 yds was a little more forward than I wanted bud it'll kill a deer for sure. Need to screw on some Stingers and start shooting them too.