RE: Missed 2 last week.......
 

Need to bend at the waist, very important.

RE: Missed 2 last week.......
 

Im in the same boat man, I had a doe come in 20 minutes after I got in my stand on opening day 26 yards broadside. I drew aimed and let'er rip. She jumped the string and the broadhead ( I just switched this year to expandible Rockets Wolverine 75 grains) skipped off on of her ribs. The reason it did this was because when I was watching her she dropped and rolled onto her side just enough to flatten out the angle my arrow was on. I looked for her for 2 hours just to follow up and make sure I wasnt leaving a dead deer in the woods. Very little blood did I find. But I think you should always follow up.

RE: Missed 2 last week.......
 

I shot my bow ALOT over the spring and summer. I am comfortable shooting up to 40yds with groups of about 4 to 6 inches. At 20yds I can almost "drive tacks" in. However, what I did not do is shoot from an elevated position. I shot from my deck on the back of my house (maybe a 2ft elevation) towards the back of my yard. I'm going to guess at 40yds it's more like 5 or 6ft of elevation.....not much, and probably not enough to matter.

The only thing I can do at home to shoot from an elevated position is get on my roof. I just think that's a little redneck to do. I don't have any mature trees big enough to put a stand in.

I'm a little frustrated with practicing right now. My muzzy's and field points fly completely different. My 4-blade (100gr) muzzy's are the same in elevate but as for windage, they are about 5 inches right at 30yds. So I moved my sights to compensate for that.

Now, my field points are the same amount to the left........which makes sense. I don't want to practice with my broadheads too much because of the amount of damage they do to my Block 4X4 (which by the way, does hold up remarkable well combared to other targets I've had).

RE: Missed 2 last week.......
 

With my 2nd miss at 42yds, downhill. I had to bend at the waist.....well, maybe it was more of a lean over. The ladder stand I was in would not allow me to stand up because I would not have had clearance due to branches.

I shot sitting down directly to my left (9:00 position). Probably the easiest place for me to shoot being right handed.

RE: Missed 2 last week.......
 

PRACTICE FROM YOUR STAND AT THE HEIGHT YOU ARE HUNTING AT!!!!!!

RE: Missed 2 last week.......
 

I don't think your bow is tuned in right besides your elevation practice problem. The reason I say this is because my muzzy's always fly the same as my field points. While watching your arrows fly to the target are they going straight or can you see them wiggle a little? You may also try shots in between you marked distances i.e. 23 yrds instead of 20. The reason I say this is because you can hit the harmonic of the arrow wobble perfectly when you sight it in at your preset distances and believe it's shooting great and tuned. Move the target in between your preset distances and find it's off which it means it's really not tuned. I hope this makes sense.

For elevated shoots, don't you have a friend with an elevated deck? If not can you located a hill side somewhere?


Good luck

RE: Missed 2 last week.......
 

I have all white fletchings and occasionally shoot with a lumenock and my arrow flight is pretty stable. I don't get much wobble or porpusing (sp?).

I could paper tune it I guess. Don't run into many knowledgeable bow "techs" at the local stores. Just some dude who also hunts and works in the Archery Dept.

As for elevated practice.....everything around my house is FLAT. It's Indiana, nothing but flat cornfields. My best chance is to practice out of a tree stand but just can't bring myself to do it now that bow season is open.