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Old 03-26-2007 | 06:58 AM
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Default RE: I NEED HELP GUY"S! PLEASE!

I am going through the same thing right now, shot great for about 3 months and then BAM, things started to go sucky. Sounds exactly the same, I just can't get the pin to lock onto the spot. Like you I bring the pin up to lock on and someone suggested I trysetting up high on the draw and then drop down onto the mark. I can still shoot a good group at 20 but in my mind it's not good enough and from 30 to 40 just too inconsistant. I'll tell you one thing I'd suggest not to do and that is, "don't take the target panic thing and really latch onto that in your mind or it may get worse". I say that because I did it and was getting more dejected and frustrated by the minute.One thing thatseemed to help me a bit was to take each shot one at a time as if it was the only one, just like hunting I tell myself there will only be one shot and concentrate onit. Another thing that helped me mentaly.I was shooting field course targets andalso plunking in theback yard and getting depressed due to poor performance, well we had a local 3-d shoot and I forced myself to go even though Iknew I'd probably embarress myself. It was a totally differant situation that the field course and I found out I wasn't near as bad as I expected so try something differant ifit's available. You'll probably see like me that it'snot as bad as you think andin the back of your mind that helps a lot. Yep, TP is real and folks get it but I know I was making things out to be much worse than it was/is. I'm still working on it myself, just not beating myself upso bad. there's lots of threads on it and a lot of opinions on what to do about it so read around andask around. Also,
maybe quit shooting at that little dot all the time, I'vedone that. I took a yardstick and outlined it with Black marker on my target it the yard and just shoot to seeif I can get a good vertical group (up and down, doesn't matter where as long as I get um in between those 2 lines), try shooting one arrow at 1 dot and worry about the groups later. 3 or 4 good shots at differant marks tells you ya can't be all that bad in my mind. Good luck!
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