Free: Contests & Raffles.
Are you double jointed in your elbow?
Is the string biting you close to the wrist or closer to the elbow?
Do you shoot with a wrist sling?
Is the draw weight comfortable or do you struggle to draw it?
Battleready and I are going to be staying with Bearpaw for a few days at the turkey opener (I think April 15th). I could bring a bow press over and a target. Could give a quick evaluation if you wanted to meet up. I'll PM my phone number if you are interested in that.
Make sure that your bow hand is relaxed. Push your bow towards the target.
I dont really hold my bow. The wrist sling does the holding. I guess i mean to say i dont grip the hand grip. My hand is actually sort of open. Do you other guys use this method? Im accurate, comfortable and its worked for years. Just wondering how you instructors teach.
Quote from: elk247 on March 21, 2013, 10:07:23 PMI dont really hold my bow. The wrist sling does the holding. I guess i mean to say i dont grip the hand grip. My hand is actually sort of open. Do you other guys use this method? Im accurate, comfortable and its worked for years. Just wondering how you instructors teach.That's good! You should never hold the bow with your hand while shooting. As human beings we have too many temperaments from day to day. We grip things tight one day, loose the next and with complete anger and discontent the day after that. You can't expect consistency that way. Your bow hand should be thought of as a saddle. Allow the pressure of draw to mount the bow in your saddle. This way the bow actually grips you rather than the other way around. And being that the bow is not a tempermental beast it will do this consistently time after time, day after day, cold weather or hot. The bow can not get angry, it can not get lazy and it can not grip with fear or fever.While aiming and holding the bow a wrist sling should be completely at rest. Think of it as your saddles loose seat belt. It plays absolutely no role at all until you are thrust forward (or in this case the bow is thrust forward). Let this seat belt catch the bow. Once all the violent action of the shot is complete then and only then grab the bow. The bow will not fall to the ground because the seat belt will not allow it.The bow should be allowed to act freely. It should be allowed to saddle up of it's own free will and dismount of it's own free will. It is a machine built to only do things one way. The only thing we can hope to achieve by restricting what it was built, bred and designed for is to restrict it's success and assure our failure.
Confidence is a big part of bow hunting imo. Many times ive passedup shots if i wasnt feelin it. When you do somthing thousands of times you can feel confident in the outcome. Rad-sav what bow do you shoot with now?
http://archeryreport.com/2011/02/properly-gripping-bow/
QuoteQuoteDid you get your draw length changed ??
QuoteDid you get your draw length changed ??
Did you get your draw length changed ??