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Old 03-05-2002 | 03:29 PM
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Ossage
 
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This is a technical forum, and there are a lot of equipment issues that can help, but aside from being overbowed most of them are at the margins.

A really important rule is to have a goal for every practice session. Are you out enjoying the day, are you tuning, are you shooting for score, are you working on your release. Then don't get distracted, work on that. It is pretty easy just to be out there doing stuff kind of following the next impulse, rather than practising.

Check your local archery and gun shops they may have some of these videos. I like the RHs best, But the new PSE holding steady isn't bad either.

Are you logging every arrow?

Look at bob ragsdale's rules below, they aren't all about accuracy, but they at least give some direction.

I think the third rule about letting down is really key. The only way to not make bad shots when they are still in your system, is to not make them, let down before you will loose an arrow that isn't perfect.

Bob's rules:

No other single thing can make a bow more cooperative than to equip it with the most compatible arrow spine you can possibly achieve.

Always work with the attitude that "there is no such thing as 'close enough' and each shot is either a hit or a miss and there is nothing in-between."

Routinely, I suggest you DO NOT SHOOT the first practice arrow of any day in favor of thinking the shot completely through while holding and aiming extensively and then letting down and returning the arrow to your quiver.

Understand that no bow is capable of doing anything for you beyond determining the velocity of your projectile. Comprehend that the archer is in absolute control and totally responsible for attending to every detail pertinent to achieving perfect accuracy.

Numbering every arrow to keep track of which ones do not group with the others may serve to both increase and maintain your level of accuracy. Using untested arrows is extremely unwise.

The most convenient way to improve unacceptable bow-to-arrow spine compatibility is to adjust each toward the other by altering either the arrows point weight or shaft length, the bow peak weight, or both.

If your broadheads are not so sharp that you are afraid of them I submit that you surely should not be using them for hunting.
You may avoid blaming your equipment unnecessarily by carrying your bows critical measurements with you and checking them before every shooting session and at any time you suspect something may no longer be as it previously was.

Specifically because the perpetual cop-out excuse of; "I misjudged the distance to the target" is most often not the actual reason for each vertical "miss," also believing that a faster arrow with a slightly lower trajectory path will magically eliminate all high and low misses, let me assure you there is much more to be gained from simply being more well prepared for all distances and by making no other mistakes even when you do misjudge the distance to the target.

Before any shot, declare whether you are practicing or whether you are just setting up your bow, since attempting both at the same time can be detrimental to the success of the other.
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