I've gotten my friend into bow hunting this year and we've only shoot at my block target. He was talking about we're the vitals are and where to hit the deer so i pulled out a vitals poster I got in a magazine taped it to the block and we started shooting at it.

Before this he was grouping his arrows pretty good about the size of a half dollar or so but at the poster he was all over the place. I don't know if he was tired or what.

Has this happened to you or someone you know?

Sometimes when you make the target bigger, the focus of the shooter changes. Go back to the original way of shooting and see if he changes again. If so, then that is probably the problem.

as hikchick pointed out, it may be his focus. Another strategy, as someone else posted a while back, is to put a golf tee in the center of the vitals. That will give him a focus point rather than an area. I know that this can help almost anyone tighten up their groups, you may want to give it a try.

I agree with the others. you need to give him a focus point. Just put somthing in the vitial area and see if that helps also is this a life size pics of a deer or something small?I would see if he would go in 1/2 with you to get a 3d target that will realy help. That is .02

Happens all the time. When you have a specific outlined spot to aim at it makes a small group size much easier to maintain. When shooting at what I call an "open target" like a deer you need to "pick a spot". I was always taught to pick a hair and shoot at it.

This is one of the most important skills a bowhunter NEEDS to have. Aiming at "nothing". Aiming at a spot gives you something to focus on and concentrate on. Aiming at a deer, well there's no obvious spot. Its very easy to just aim at the chest. You need to pick the smallest spot possible, a dark hair spot, the crease etc.

--Bob