Fellas this is the best place I've found to learn, and I don't want to wear out my welcome which has been substantial. Maybe I shouldn't be posting on this main page. That having been said this is the way I've been aiming. For me twas a bit of a breakthrough but it's still not putting arrows atop one another in the bullseye.
This is how I've managed to aim with my smoothest shooting bow, my BW [email protected] Of course I've got the H.H. Big 5 [email protected] coming in just days.
I look at the bullseye and focus on it. When I look at the bullseye I also see two images of my arrow tip. I ignore the "right eye arrow tip image" and keep the left. As I come to full draw I attempt to hold that left eye arrow tip image a smidge below the bullseye at 20 yards. At the last nano second the whole damn sight picture falls apart as I come to my anchor point and the bow and arrow level out. Right then I'm kind of flying blind even though both my eyes are wide open. So my technique at this last moment of drawing is to attempt to make no changes in longitude and latitude, from what I believe was a well aimed arrow just a nano second before. Then comes the release. I can group arrows left or right or high or low but only one or two strays go into the bulleye. I am ashamed. I can say this for myself and that is I stopped shooting the fence long ago; all my arrows now at least hit the rubber block I'm shooting.
This is why I won't take a long shot at anything. I just see those masters on youtube raise that bow way above the horizon and smack down targets 100 plus yards away. I wouldn't have any idea how to do that. I remain mystefied and facinated with this. I even saw that guy on relentless pursuit do it on a muley in Canada...shooting fingers, w no sights, on a Matthews compound at 100 yards. I could barely see the muley but for the zoom lens and slo-mo. The arrow clipped that beast right in the boiler room. I would never attempt such a shot. And then there's Howard Hill. How can these guys see? What sight picture are they seeing? Help.
This is how I've managed to aim with my smoothest shooting bow, my BW [email protected] Of course I've got the H.H. Big 5 [email protected] coming in just days.
I look at the bullseye and focus on it. When I look at the bullseye I also see two images of my arrow tip. I ignore the "right eye arrow tip image" and keep the left. As I come to full draw I attempt to hold that left eye arrow tip image a smidge below the bullseye at 20 yards. At the last nano second the whole damn sight picture falls apart as I come to my anchor point and the bow and arrow level out. Right then I'm kind of flying blind even though both my eyes are wide open. So my technique at this last moment of drawing is to attempt to make no changes in longitude and latitude, from what I believe was a well aimed arrow just a nano second before. Then comes the release. I can group arrows left or right or high or low but only one or two strays go into the bulleye. I am ashamed. I can say this for myself and that is I stopped shooting the fence long ago; all my arrows now at least hit the rubber block I'm shooting.
This is why I won't take a long shot at anything. I just see those masters on youtube raise that bow way above the horizon and smack down targets 100 plus yards away. I wouldn't have any idea how to do that. I remain mystefied and facinated with this. I even saw that guy on relentless pursuit do it on a muley in Canada...shooting fingers, w no sights, on a Matthews compound at 100 yards. I could barely see the muley but for the zoom lens and slo-mo. The arrow clipped that beast right in the boiler room. I would never attempt such a shot. And then there's Howard Hill. How can these guys see? What sight picture are they seeing? Help.