atlasman

LOL


Actually I have lots of deer in my yard every day and the bucks smack up my targets every once in awhile.

gutshot

One thing that I can attest to with your experiment is the choking of the grip. Ihave always have shot with a closed loose handed grip and I don't believe that it has effected my groups in the least.

HuntingBry

I find those results pretty surprising myself. I would have thought that canting the bow and inducing torque would have made the groups increase in size and have an affect on accuracy. As OHBowhunter said I wonder what the results would be at greater distances.

In general, I don't miss left of right, most of my misses are high or low and are either caused by deer jumping the string combined with some distance misjudgement and/or simply misjudging the distance. All Indian, no bow with my misses.

atlasman

My choice of 25 yards was simply because most deer are shot within this range...........pretty much the whole point I guess. Of course flaws will be magnified at farther ranges but since wehardly ever encounter those ranges when we hunt I didn't see how it applied.

atlasman

I think the extreme torque would have the most results at further ranges.........I say that because it is the only "test" I did that I visually saw an effect on arrow flight........they did fishtail.........but again this is extreme torque.......something I can't imagine anyone even coming close to unless done on purpose.

Dr Andy

I Know that most of my misses are my fault, usually due to peaking and not following through. This will make your misses extreme. Also, the nerves/shakes when aiming at a fkesh and blood target!

brucelanthier

But that is just it, if we didn't pay attention to all the details, tuned bow/arrow/FOC etc. then if our grip pressure is off or the sight bubble is off then we will miss if the rest of our form is good.

Do the same test that you just did but untune your bow or untune your arrow or untune both and then do the same test and see if the results are the same. Having your equipment tuned correctly makes it more forgiving of form errors. If your equipment is not tuned correctly then you cannot get away with bad bubbles/grip/etc. IMO

buckmaster

Good read Atlas, interesting stuff, makes you wonder how much "seriousness" we put into a hunting situation. Target, 3-D i can understand all the "fuss" cuz im trying to learn it myself. But if peaple like Schultzy can get it done with a stick and string, why "fuss" when i comes to hunting situations.

But onthe other side of the fence, you have the equip. the knowledge, the skill, why not apply it to make theBEST shot possible?itlessens the chance of wounded deer, and disapointing shots.

atlasman

Agree 100%

bowdoc1

Canting your bow will make you shoot lift are right. I don't thing you see a lot of difference at 25 yard. I always used the canting shooting target, but at longer ranges. Out to 30 yards I don't think wind make that much difference. When I shot target if there was windy I always canted the top limb into the wind and used my level to show me how much. I don't like to aim off the target and the canting work great for me. I'm not going to commit on the other things, I do see you shot one to the right on the #2. I all way use a level on my hunting bows because of the kind of shots I take out of a tree stand and my hunting bows are shorter and it's easier to get into a cant with out knowing it.