ORIGINAL: TFOX
ORIGINAL: BGfisher
Practicing and building the muscles that shoot a bow is good. A syabilizer can definitely help too, but probably the most important thing for being able to control a bow is getting the draw length to fit you and not trying to shoot too much draw weight. These are the two most important things.
Accuracy comes from developing decent, consistent shooting form. You can't develop good shooting form if you're fighting a bow.
If your draw length is too long and you're drawing about 10# too much weight then consider yourself to be in the same group as 80% of people shooting today.
I wish you would post more,it would save me some typing.[8D]
I know alot of bowhunters are still shooting too long but there are alot of target archers that are going the opposite way and shooting too short.
I'd post more if I had something intelligent to say. Or put another way, if I knew how to be more articulate with my words. Many times I know what I'm talking about. I just don't say it well and come across as a Know-it-all or I don't go into enough detail. It takes a lot of typing to be detail oriented and I try to make suggestions in a general manner.
You're been shooting long enough to know that there is more to shooting well than just drawing and shooting. Learning good form starts at the feet, looking at the target, drawing aiming, not thinking about the release, but just letting it happen. All the little details like getting a bow's drawlength down to the last 1/8", good tuning skills, etc, etc, etc. Details, details, details. And one thing at a time. Shot sequence and timing. You know what I mean.
My hay-days were back in the late 70's in field and target archery. As I get older I don't have the physical skills, but I remember a lot of those details. So although I can't shoot as well I can try to pass on some of what I've learned. I know the equipment is different today, but those basics don't change.
As an example, today's bows have a ton of letoff and that can lead to aiming problems. There just isn't enough holding weighton thebow at full draw. Shooter has to use arm and shoulder muscles to hold the bow up instead of being able to use the back muscles to aim and pull through the shoot. Gee, maybe that's why so many people want a bow with a draw stop or a solid back wall. Ya think? DUH. You know, draw 60# with 80% letoff and then pull into the wall to develop 20# of holding weight. You know what I'm saying.
Buckmaster, sorry for the short hijack, but this is why drawlength is so important. It's not the only thing in the equation though. Good shooting begins with the feet and comes right up through the body. Doing the same thing every time builds consistency. Once you develop some consistency in form it often comes down to "AIM THE BOW". Assuming you make good shots the arrows will impact where the sight pin is at the shot. The only thing you should be doing at that moment is aiming. In many cases if you see your arrow go then you are screwing up, looking for the arrow instead of where it's supposed to hit. It's very possible that once you get more experience those ping-pong paddle groups will shrink to ping-pong ball groups, but it isn't going to happen over night.