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Main Boards => The Shooters FORM Board => Topic started by: LongStick64 on June 08, 2011, 06:56:00 PM
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Ever since I changed to three under I liked the way I wasn't pinching down on the arrow but I felt tight when at anchor. So while shooting the bale I decided to play with anchor position. When checking my alignment in my previous anchor I could see I wasn't at full extension which now I understand why I was fighting the bow at anchor.
So I had to move the anchor back and slightly down. What a difference. Shot feels better but because I have a lower anchor my shots are hitting higher. Oh well back to the drawing board.
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If you have full extension, you are better off than you were.
Other than changing your anchor point again, there are at least two things you can do about the high shots:
1. Nothing. If you are consistent, your mind will adjust to the new trajectory over time, and your shots will come back on target. This is similar to what I have to do when I switch from my longbow shooting heavy wood arrows to my recurve shooting lighter carbons. At first, the carbons hit high.
2. Raise your nock point, if the point of impact is not too high. Raising your nock point 1/8" will drop your point of impact by a few inches at 20 yards, without any loss of performance. I wouldn't want to raise my nock point much more than 1/8" over the nock point that gives good bare shaft flight.
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Longstick, I hope this will help you as it did me. About 5 months ago I decided to change my anchor from my middle finger to corner of mouth to index finger. When I did this I knew I was going to be a little high but it would correct itself after awhile, however it did not seem to be doing that and was getting worse. I had 4" groups of holes, shot 1 at at a time, approx. 5" above target. A friend of mine had done some videos of me when I had problems releasing using my old anchor and offered to mke one of me shooting the new way and to break it down to frame by frame. What we found, when comparing frames, is because of the sight relationship I had ingrained with my old way( anchor,arrow,target) I was leaning my head slightly forward with the new anchor which caused the high shots to go even higher.I worked on changing this and am quite pleased to say everything is otay spanky.
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Thanks everyone, what I started to work on today was to really concentrate hard on picking a spot lower on the target and set the gap. I feel like I gained an inch in draw as well, no complaints there.
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Hey longstick, did the same thing with my anchor. At 3 under I lowered the anchor so my anchor is just at the back of my jaw and down under it. It is way more solid.
I was low as a cronic situation. 20, 30 40 & 50 yards.
I found this anchor more natural. I've also noticed that the arrow is more directly under my eye as well.