Bow shooting tip ....

[ICEMAN]

Silly bowhunters....

 

Silly flannel wearing, Jean wearing, 400 yard sitting, gun toting rifle hunters
Lol jk Iceman.

All true except I am only good to 300 yards.

[xXx Archery]

It is NOT your draw lenght ..its your GRIP...

[carpsniperg2]

  100% grip.

[robertsjd]

Okay thanks for all the Feedback and advice guys ill look into proper form and maybe my draw length ?? Here's only pic I have of my draw and form ?? If this helps you guys at all

[seansfire]

looks like your elbow is locked to me man. gonna smack yourself every time that way. if your elbow is locked like that your draw is too long and that would make the way you hold the bow wrong as well and that is why you get a bruise

[MrsTurkeyFeather]

looks like your elbow is locked to me man. gonna smack yourself every time that way. if your elbow is locked like that your draw is too long and that would make the way you hold the bow wrong as well and that is why you get a bruise

at first I thought it was your grip, but you look good & relaxed/loose holding the bow in the pic, after talking it over a bit with hubby, we agree its draw length...Id sure as heck be whacking the snot outta my forearm if I was locked elbow (with too long a draw length) as it appears you are.

Let us know how you do after getting things readjusted! 

[turkeyfeather]

I disagree with the advice on getting a forearm cover. That just allows you to hide the problem. Better to find out why your hitting your arm and adjust right away. Then you have immediate feedback if you do it wrong.

[RadSav]

Form doesn't look all that bad.  Draw length might be a little too long, but well within reasonable.  The biggest thing I see is your right foot!  Looks to be behind the left one.  That's a no no both for balance and for slapping your arm.  Move that foot forward about 12-15 inches and point your toes a bit more toward the target.  Doesn't have to be a lot to rotate that left shoulder.  What you want to do is open your chest up to the target.  When you do that the left should rotates out and creates more angle and getting that forearm out of the way.  It also gives you a better visual picture of the target too.  A lot like batting in baseball...think Jay Buhner!!

This might shorten your draw length a little too much for the draw setting on the bow.  But that's easy to fix if it happens to change too much.

One of the other things I noticed in that picture is that the wrist sling seems tight to your wrist at full draw.  That can cause problems too!  Wrist sling should be almost floppy loose.  All it is there for is to catch the bow.  There should never be any tension on it until the arrow has completely left the rest.

[westernarcher]

Your strings stopper is not adjusted to stop the string from going to far forward upon release. First time I shot my bow this year it whacked me so hard I thought something blew up. I noticed the bump stop had twisted to far to the left and wasn't catching the string. Hope this helps.

[Jason]

Just do what most have suggested and you should be good to go.
And forearm guards are for sissy's Just don't even remember someone suggested that to you

[turkeyfeather]

Your strings stopper is not adjusted to stop the string from going to far forward upon release. First time I shot my bow this year it whacked me so hard I thought something blew up. I noticed the bump stop had twisted to far to the left and wasn't catching the string. Hope this helps.

I disagree with ya on this. Until last year I never had a string stopper and didn't hit my arm.

[westernarcher]

My arm disagrees. Its the only time its been hit with a compound bow since back in 1997.

[mountainman]

Feet should be no tighter then at 11:00 and 5:00 o'clock to the target. Shoulders should be directly over your feet. You can try rotating your bow arm shoulder a little more back, down, and relaxed. What you are tying to do is create a triangle with your bow arm, draw arm/arrow, and the cross section between shoulders. Also, looks like your bow arm elbow is too locked. Think centered and tall to get relaxed and balanced...

[robertsjd]

Wow thanks everyone for the help!! Really glad I have hunt wa and all you guys !! Gonna get this taken care of ASAP !! Looks like I need some archery form training haha !! Just learning all on the fly this year don't really have a mentor thanks everyone for aLl the input !!! Cheers to hunt wa!!

[JLS]

Your strings stopper is not adjusted to stop the string from going to far forward upon release. First time I shot my bow this year it whacked me so hard I thought something blew up. I noticed the bump stop had twisted to far to the left and wasn't catching the string. Hope this helps.

I disagree with ya on this. Until last year I never had a string stopper and didn't hit my arm.

 

A string stopper's function is to dampen noise and improve accuracy.  It does nothing to prevent the string from slapping your arm.  I'd say you have some other issue going on here.