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[Hookeye]

I was kinda serious about archery, for many years.
My form etc is pretty darn good.

Its just my body is now constantly screwed up to a level where nothing ever feels right.
Kinda like putting shoes on the wrong feet.
Its not horrible but it still sucks.

Try to push focus and other and it just hits a soft stop.
No more pushing through.

Very strange.

 

[Hookeye]

There are tricks to trad.
I don't shoot long arrows for point on aim.
Also don't use a crawl.

Did go 3 under some time back.
Makes the sight picture learning curve quicker.
Prefer to shoot unconscious gap.

Some call it instinctive LOL

 

[Shanghai McCoy]

Just put the heat to correct some twist on a short osage bow that I started a couple years back but had set aside. It's 52" NTN with a slight bend through the handle. For now, it's hitting 48# at 26" but will likely lose some draw weight during the final tillering phase.

 

[jeffsmith13]

I like that term, unconscious gap . String walkers and gap shooters usually fair well in competition, I usually don’t shoot past 20 yd hunting.

 

[courtgreene]

I like that term, unconscious gap . String walkers and gap shooters usually fair well in competition, I usually don’t shoot past 20 yd hunting.

That's what I'm limiting myself to as well. I'll make it easy by going to places where I know two things: 1- there are deer around, 2- I'd never get a clear shot past 15 yards or so. I don't mean the hunting or shooting will be easy, I mean the temptation to shoot too far will be easy. I practice at ten and twenty and every few days I'll just constantly walk and stop to shoot as soon as I get the next arrow knocked so I am not 100% sure what the distance is. That forces me to judge it quickly on the fly. That's the stress relieving part. Just strolling and loosing arrows. Until I step in dog crap or something then I get mad again, but I've heard that stuff happens.

 

[Shanghai McCoy]

^^^
That's a good way to practice. It's a variation of "Stump shooting" and helps you develop the instinctive eye for shooting at various distance.
Another good practice drill is to go out and shoot just one arrow at the target in the morning if you can. That's your shot of the day.
Kind of like what would happen while hunting...

 

[courtgreene]

^^^
That's a good way to practice. It's a variation of "Stump shooting" and helps you develop the instinctive eye for shooting at various distance.
Another good practice drill is to go out and shoot just one arrow at the target in the morning if you can. That's your shot of the day.
Kind of like what would happen while hunting...

good idea

 

[Hookeye]

I practice out to 40.
Dont get by with creeping at that distance
Form issues show up too

 

[Hookeye]

Shot of the day?
A.piney can make for a good warm up LOL
BTW groundhogs dont get to just walk on by

 

[archeryrob]

Here is a link to pics of the working selfbow I have left. 47" tip to tip. The idea was a copy a Blackfoot bow I had dimensions for and while boiling water to bend it I started thinking. Recurve the tips and deflex the center and I could get more draw length out of it. 55# @ 26". It was always funny to take it to a bow shoot and when someone called it a kids bow, I'd saw "try it" and they'd fail to pull it back. This was about making a new set of Southern Arrowwood arrows for it.

My new arrows

After making deer meat into dried beef with the smoke house and getting an interest now in making deer hams, I began to re-acquire my interest in archery again. Also watching my daughter get into a…

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Sadly I have so many hobbies this one has been idle mostly for the last twenty years. Growing a huge garden now, just picked up a grain thresher to repair and get working to process wheat and rye we have growing.