Lining up your shot
09-01-2008, 09:05 PM
#22
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Oct 1998
Location: Hughesville, PA USA
Posts: 18,322
RE: Lining up your shot
ORIGINAL: early in
Everyone starts by aimimg "generally" at their spot then adjust's accordingly, up or down. It has to be either way. You're never going to start your draw exactly on your spot and maintain that position until release. There must be some deviation. Usually up or down.
Everyone starts by aimimg "generally" at their spot then adjust's accordingly, up or down. It has to be either way. You're never going to start your draw exactly on your spot and maintain that position until release. There must be some deviation. Usually up or down.
When I draw and come to anchor, my pin is usually on the target (somewhere) automatically. I simply adjust the pin to the spot be it up/down/left or right and start my float.
Rarely although it does happen that my pin is totally off the target but I don't think about it, I just move it to the target. I don't start up and go down, I don't start down and go up.....all that leads to target panic by trying to punch trigger as it passes the mark.
Where ever my pin ends up at full draw I simply move it to the mark and start my float and concentration.
Now that's shooting from level ground. Obviously when shooting from an elevated state I draw level and move down to the intended target/mark.
And when shooting in Harrisburg, the targets above the shooters, Draw level and move up to the target.
09-01-2008, 09:10 PM
#23
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Northeast Tennessee
Posts: 5,673
RE: Lining up your shot
Generally I start high and come down to the target. I'm thinking of just shooting target specifically. A LOT of guys state they start on target before they draw and keep it there. There isn't a black and white right answer, but I know A LOT of pro's start high and come down.
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09-01-2008, 09:13 PM
#24
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Northeast Tennessee
Posts: 5,673
09-01-2008, 09:17 PM
#25
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Roanoke, Va
Posts: 3,562
RE: Lining up your shot
Rarely although it does happen that my pin is totally off the target but I don't think about it, I just move it to the target. I don't start up and go down, I don't start down and go up.....all that leads to target panic by trying to punch trigger as it passes the mark.
09-01-2008, 09:42 PM
#26
Typical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: minneapolis mn.
Posts: 588
RE: Lining up your shot
ORIGINAL: GMMAT
Try to put my pin on the target before I draw and keep it there.
Try to put my pin on the target before I draw and keep it there.
I personally go up with the pin after draw.
09-01-2008, 11:57 PM
#27
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: PA
Posts: 9,085
RE: Lining up your shot
now that Rob answered, what i do will loose its "validity" as what i ACTUALLY do...
but ive always done how rob described....i think most of it came from "bending at the waist" and its easier to hit your anchors level (parallel to flat ground) and keep those anchors to shoot targets below and above you...just helps me remember the bend at the waist to keep anchors so thats how and why i started doing that....if im on level ground, my pin ends up on target when i hit my anchors..just fine tune from there....i dont THINK about getting on target...thats where my focus is and it just "happens"
im a self, and internet taught archer...not an expert by any means...
funny though, when im in a deer stand and drawing on a deer, i bend my waist to get on the deer and draw "on the deer" keep my form and anchor points...but draw straight back on the deer to minimize movement...i do the same when practicing from the stand as well...so thats the odd ball coming out in my shooting....
i can tell when im not on my anchor points though...i practice alot and i can just tell "it doesnt feel right" and i can tell when my level is level without looking 90% of the time...i check it everytime...but dont have to consciencly adjust the level to be level most of the time...just "feels" or looks off if im not level....
but ive always done how rob described....i think most of it came from "bending at the waist" and its easier to hit your anchors level (parallel to flat ground) and keep those anchors to shoot targets below and above you...just helps me remember the bend at the waist to keep anchors so thats how and why i started doing that....if im on level ground, my pin ends up on target when i hit my anchors..just fine tune from there....i dont THINK about getting on target...thats where my focus is and it just "happens"
im a self, and internet taught archer...not an expert by any means...
funny though, when im in a deer stand and drawing on a deer, i bend my waist to get on the deer and draw "on the deer" keep my form and anchor points...but draw straight back on the deer to minimize movement...i do the same when practicing from the stand as well...so thats the odd ball coming out in my shooting....
i can tell when im not on my anchor points though...i practice alot and i can just tell "it doesnt feel right" and i can tell when my level is level without looking 90% of the time...i check it everytime...but dont have to consciencly adjust the level to be level most of the time...just "feels" or looks off if im not level....
09-02-2008, 06:29 AM
#30
Typical Buck
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location:
Posts: 509
RE: Lining up your shot
From a stand, I draw, anchor, bend at the waist and lower on the target, focus through sight on said target, center peep within sight, float yardage pin on targetbased on exit hole, andrelease. I never really focus on the pins. They just kind of float around in front of me, much like the centering of the peep in the sight. I really try to stay focused on the target. One of the reasons I only shoot out to 30 yards. Beyond that, I have a tendency to start "aiming" the pin, and lose focus on the target.