Originally Posted by
super_hunt54
I'm 6'5". And yes that argument has merit with most things, but with archery, the human body is FAR from a perfect design and very few are the same. In other words...folks goof! To have a design that requires perfect follow-through is stupid. Very few can accomplish it even with tons of practice. At my age, achieving excellent follow-though is difficult at best, dang near impossible for usual. Hence part of the reason I switched to drop away rests. Once you get one dialed in, it can improve your performance level quite a bit if you are having follow-through difficulties.
I was getting to where I could barely score a 465 on a 50 target shoot. Had a couple friends video me shooting. Took a long close look at the whole thing and discovered some pretty big differences from earlier films. My bow arm was dropping a bit early on release, my wrist positioning was nowhere near as flexed as it used to be, my stance had closed in some, my string arm wasn't dropping straight back as it used to, just all kinds of tiny things that most wouldn't notice but when added together was making me shoot a good percentage worse than in times before. My first drop away solved about 85% of the problems. The other 15% I just had to get my dang mind right and make my body work in unison with the bow.
1. Just to be clear I agree 100% a good drop away is much better
2. Now, At 6' 5" you reckon its a little more natural for you to have your foot long finger around that arrow than say a guy that is 5'9" with a 3.5" finger with a compound bow?
3. I will probably never hold another arrow on with my finger ever again. Its not bad form to stop doing something that is no longer functional with a compound bow.
4. I would venture to guess most bow hunters really have no business shooting deer with any rest out past distances the WB can handle.
5. He is what I do to correct my own poor form that I develop. I take my bow and I walk right up to the target and I shoot from about 2 feet away, focus 100% on my form without worrying about where my arrow goes and I retrain myself to shoot the damn thing right.
6. I'm not arguing against going to a dropaway because it mask bad form. Just pointing out a WB does not teach bad form....if anything its the other way around.