What do you use for Anchor?

[Ujio]

I'm trying to find a good hard tissue anchor.  I was trying to use my cheek bone, but when I use back tension to keep pulling after coming to anchor, it twists my face back a bit.  This is leading to the string tearing my face up.  I was hoping you guys could suggest some good hard tissue anchors I could try.

Thanks!

[moebow]

Ujio,

If you are doing it correctly, the string and string hand do not move on your face.  If you are "twisting" your face, you are using arm rather than back tension.   The "pulling" with the back will move your string shoulder back, perpendicular to the arrow line, not back inline from the target/ arrow line.

Once you have your "anchor" position set, further back tension DOES NOT move the hand on the face!

[Ujio]

Yes I see your point.  I believe a better explanation of what is occurring is that I am actually moving my face back to use my old anchor point.  Now that I am drawing farther I do not have a comfortable anchor.  My forefinger on the front of my cheekbone is what I had been using, which is causing my trouble now.  I'm actually moving my face back to accommodate a longer draw.  

A friend of mine suggested using the knuckle of my thumb on my jaw.  I'm worried about having an anchor that takes the arrow away from my eye.

[HenrikBP]

I was struggling with finding a good anchor too, but found that I can feel the teeth in my upper jaw through my "lip". So now my main anchor is my index finger in the "groove" between 2 of my teeth, and my secondary anchor is my thumb behind the arc of my lower jaw.

I still "hit" my lip and tip of my nose at times, but the eye-to-arrow alignment is much better - when I remember to "tuck" my anchor in.

Henrik

[smokin joe]

I tuck my thumb knuckle up where my jawbone intersects my earlobe -- a bone-to-bone anchor; and then let the fletch touch my nose.

When I am shooting poorly, the cause is usually that I am not concentrating and that I am letting my anchor get sloppy.

[Terry Green]

Do a search for Double Anchor...

[BobCo 1965]

Personally, for my hunting anchor, I like to place my thumb pad over my pinky nail. I hook the string split finger and place my index finger on the upper k-9. This position also forms a "cup" under my jaw perfectly. I also use a string blurr on the riser.

[Terry Green]

Got your email.....thanks for the thanks!!!

[Atennishu]

Mine is my index finger just under my cheekbone, for me it just fits right in the curl of my finger

[Pete Darby]

Not sure why I would want to Anchor on my face. (I can tape my string hand to my face and still get three inches or more difference in draw length.)  I use my back muscles to establish anchor.  I use my top two fingers on my face to establish a reference point to the arrow with my curled thumb behind my jaw bone to ensure my string hand elbow is aligned and lastly the string touching a spot on my eyebrow to establish consistant draw length and eliminate any string torquing.

[Green]

I completely agree with Pete.  The anchor should be in your back muscles....everything else, finger placement/web of the thumb placement, feather on the nose, whatever.....is just a draw check.