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Old 01-21-2002 | 08:47 AM
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Jeep_Man
 
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Default RE: What goes through your mind at full draw?

Howdy Guys,
I'm a newbie here, but I've been bowhunting for 2 years now...so, to use an expression, just take my advice with a grain of salt, and try it out

I noticed several of you said that you always thought, "which pin, which pin...half way between the 10 and the 20? or right on the 20?" I did that for one year...and missed ONE deer FOUR times. So I trashed the pins and scaled down to shooting fingers and using the tip of my arrow. You still have to decided how far away it is, but you do that even before you draw. So when I get ready to shoot, (so far, it's only been for practice) all I have to think about is that spot where I'm going to shoot. An article in Bowhunter (February 2002) by Randy Ulmer gives a good shooting tip that goes along with this topic. He mentions that the human mind can only focus on an object for 7 seconds...so he says you need to shoot quickly after you draw...and the only thing that needs to be going through your mind is the point that you're aiming at. And when you let go (fingers ) you still need to concentrate on that point until the arrow hits the target.

Anyway, sorry if I rambled... and hope that did some good

-Nate
Oh! one more thing, I guess you can tell that I love finger shooting but if you take one or two weeks to shoot fingers, you'll get in a routine where you don't have to think at all about the way your fingers let go (two fingers, three fingers, letting the string roll off, letting it go quickly, etc) so that would eliminate worrying about firing your release...anyway, just a thought.

Finger shoot it man, just use your fingers.
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