Shooting to the left

[Michael Arnette]

I've been doing a lot of shooting recently and have found that I'm consistently shooting slightly to the left of my target with field points and broadheads half the time I'm right on so it seems to be something in my shooting form because I've been right on for up/down and either perfect or slightly left for horizontal.

Any suggestions?

[Aggie1993]

If you're a right handed shooter, I'd suggest you're slightly over spined with your field tips and the long broadheads adds a little length and helps the arrow act weaker. Hope that helps.

[ISP 5353]

Is there any variation in the spine or nock fit of the arrows you are shooting?

[northener]

Try looking at your bow arm in relation to your body. the triangle formed by your bow hand to head/chest to draw hand

I sometimes have the same problem and I correct mine by moving my bow arm to the right before draw

I think they refer to this as opening your form.

[Friend]

Do you utlize a feather nose tip anchor?

[mec lineman]

either slightly stiff arrows, not reaching anchor(bulky clothes,cold weather?)  or torqueing the bow, tight grip on bow?

[Rufus]

9 times out of 10 with me it's corrected when my wife say "Keep your hand to your face" and I do and I'm back on center.      me.

[R. W. Mackey]

Back Tension, guaranteed!!!

RW

[Flingblade]

Michael,  I had the same issue recently.  I was hitting 8-10 inches left at 20 yards and I knew it wasn't a tuning issue.  I started watching my bow at release and noticed my top limb would jump to the right on release when I missed left so I knew I was torquing the bow.  I played around with my grip until I found a grip that allowed the bow to remain in place upon release and that put me right back on.  The grip that works for me is low wrist, heel down, relaxed fingers that just touch the bow and pressure of bow on the thumb side of the life line.

[JMG]

This helped me,
 http://www.3riversarchery.com/pdf/2011ShaftTuningChart.pdf

[Michael Arnette]

Mackey, I think your right...when I crank down on my back tension I'm right on. And yes "Friend" I have used a nose to feather anchor and have recently switched to corner of the mouth. I think that has had something to do with it.

[Friend]

May then wish to consider the following: Getting the draw arm back while exercising proper back tension.

Not an uncommon issue: I have experienced the identical issue when moving from nose tip anchor to the corner of my mouth.

If you were experiencing the same results with the nose tip anchor, then I would suggest starting by trimming an 1/8" from the cock feather for experimentaion purposes.

In mouthing to a side mouth anchor, I found that I wasn't achieving proper alignment due to shotrtening my draw.I focus on driving my draw arm elbow back to faciltate reaching both proper alignment, consistent full draw and fully engaging my rhomboids. The feel will be new,yet memorable and I try to capture that feel at full draw each and every shot execution. I still fail at times, however my left marks have been significantly reduced.  

Please note: the draw increase is likely in the neighborhood of 3/8"s...not much however the desired results have been achieveed.

Just a thought!!!

[overbo]

For me, hitting left happens when most of my weight is one right foot(leaning back) or don't push thru the shot w/ my bow arm. I accomplishes the push thru, by straightening my wrist just before the release. If I cant the bow slightly more and lean towards the target, a lot of that negative stuff goes away.

[ranger 3]

Short drawing, and that will make your arrows stiffer

[Sam McMichael]

Practice form and check arrow tuning. Don't you just love such simple coaching from a guy who has some of these same issues and doesn't know any more than you do? Good luck.

[screamin]

Originally posted by Rufus:
9 times out of 10 with me it's corrected when my wife say "Keep your hand to your face" and I do and I'm back on center.       me.

+1 I have the very same problem

[R. W. Mackey]

Michael, every time a right handed shooter tells me they are hitting consistently left, I always suggest checking your back
Pressure. Short draw, not pushing thru are caused from not
Getting good back pressure. If a person has a good anchor,
Grip,stance, all of the basics, but still can't shoot consistent,
It's back pressure.
  My hunting partner and I shoot together a lot, if one of us starts shooting bad, the other says remember the two rules,
#1, get back pressure, #2, get more back pressure. It really will
Solve lots of shooting problems.
 RW