help with my Bow!!!

[pearsontx4]

last year when i would be shooting my bow i could put all my arrows touching between 10 to 50 yards and after last season i put my bow up until about august this year then i started shooting it again to get ready for bow season now i have never let my bow sit with out shooting it for that long but with the new job i had and thinking i lost all the ground i had to hunt i didnt think i would be bow hunting anymore but all of that changed when i found out i could still hunt on the land then i started shooting since august and my arrows are all over the place i will get one dead center of the bulls eye then one 5 inches to the left then 2 arrows touching 3 inches low and this is really starting to piss me off that i cant shoot like i could last year i took the bow to the archery shop thinking there was something wrong with it and the guy checked everything and made sure the arrow was flying straight and everything checked out good so i dont know how but has my form changed that much? i just dont know what to do about it i have tried everything i can think of and nothing has helped i was thinking about buying the bow couch that tells you when your form is wrong and if im torquing my bow or something now i have already tagged out for the year but i am suppose to be going to texas for a hunt and i am thinking about not going if i cant get everything straighten out with my arrow groups so does anybody have any ideas or has anything good or bad to say on the bow couch? sorry this is a long read but if anyone has any ideas please let me know.

[bronko22000]

I would say just continue practicing. My guess is that your form may be sloppy from not shooting in a while. And that you may be compounding the situation by trying harder and gripping the bow or something else.
Draw your bow, relax you bow hand so your fingers just sort of dangle in front of the bow. Focus on the the shot and the release. If you shot well before, it will come back.

[ebieszk]

Im sorry but no way you were putting arrows continuously touching each other at 50 yards... 99.99% of bow hunters couldn't do that unless you shoot professionally and they practice 40 hours a week. People need to practice and its average to miss by a few inches every other shot when you put your bow down for multiple months. We are human not machines. Unless your Jesse Broadwater then maybe more of a machine!!!

[eureka77]

I'm the last to try to give advice about shooting, but are your anchor points still the same? Do ya have a kisser button and if so is it still tight to the string?

[BGfisher]

I'd like to know what all was checked at the shop. Is the bow all set to specs? If not this could be one explanation. For example, if the rigging (string/cable) has stretched then the bow might not fit you as well as it did and this could affect your form.

You are having problems enough that I would suggest measuring everything you can think of then attempt to set the bow up to specs and do a complete retune job. You probably didn't measure anything from last year so have no baseline to follow to know what, if anything changed.

One clue I see is that it appears your broadhead tipped arrows are just scattering. This is often a sign of underspined arrows. You say they are leaving the bow straight, but is that shooting through paper? If so then I'll tell you that paper tuning is a good indication of how the arrow is leaving the bow, but not so good at telling you what's going on down range, which you are finding to be quite obvious.

Here again, it could simply be just your form. Having not shot for such a long time the old muscles that do the work may have lost their memory and it's going to take time to retrain them.

Maybe if you could find a good coach he could evaluate your form and go over your bow to see what he thinks is the answer. Hands on experience is going to be better than us guessing without actually checking the bow and/or seeing you shoot.

[30-06 deerslayer]

I would say if you didn't change anything arrows,weight of broadheads etc. then I would lower the poundage of your bow where it is easy for you to shoot.then shoot at a 15 or 20yd target.it may help you to get back your form.if after doing that you see a big improvement you can up the pounds and the yds.