Shooting high from the tree.

[southpawshooter]

Your form likely is the culprit.  Bend at the waist and keep the 'T' in your upper body.  Strange things happen when the back and front of your shot are misaligned.

[Lost Arra]

Practice Practice Practice
From your stand.

All the "computing and adjusting" will come naturally if you are comfortable in your treestand and used to shooting from an elevated position.

[eagle24]

Originally posted by southpawshooter:
Your form likely is the culprit.  Bend at the waist and keep the 'T' in your upper body.  Strange things happen when the back and front of your shot are misaligned.

 thats the ticket as far as I'm concerned.  If you fail to bend at the waist you change your upper body geometry and the sight picture looks different.  You will shoot high.  The best advice, however, is in the reply right above this one.  

[Junction hunter]

Thanks guys.
Think I'm hunting from the ground this year. First year with a recurve and haven't practiced enough from the tree. Totally lost my confidence. Going to be tough getting that big boy within 18 yards from the ground.
I alway have the compound to fall back on. Had to use it last year because I wasn't ready to hunt with recurve yet. Wondering if I'm ready this year.

[DRR324]

No compounds allowed!!!     Keep your confidence up by shooting a few GOOD arrows each day.  Climb up on your roof and shoot from the peak.  I've got my extension ladder against the pole barn and shoot a few every day possible.  You can do it with the curve- if you fall back on the wheelie bow, you'll regret it when that good buck comes in at 12 yards and you smoke him.  Your mind will instantly think you could have done it with the curve, which you can!!! :

[Chortdraw]

shoot for the exit wound.

[cvarcher]

You have forgotten the most important thing--Cant the bow! Try it both ways and then let us know if theres a differance.

[Papa Bull]

If you shoot an arrow straight up in the air or straight down, it won't matter if your target is 10 feet or 100 yards away; your line of aim will not change because there is no "drop" as we think of it.

If you shoot horizontally, you get the greatest deviation between your line of aim and your target over the shortest distances.

So the closer to straight up or straight down your shot is, the closer you get to zero deviation from your line of aim over any distance.  And the closer to horizontal your shot is, the closer you get to maximum deviation from your line of aim over any distance.

In other words.  If you're shooting at an angle up or down; aim as though it's closer.  The greater the angle, the closer you need to consider it for aiming purposes.

Any projectile traveling any distance will always drop the exact same amount for the same time in flight.  So why aim lower than we would expect?  Because of the angle of the arrow drop.  As mentioned before, if the arrow is shot straight up, it will still "drop" the same amount, it will just drop in the exact same line as the line of aim.

[trashwood]

that is a very good explaination PB.  

rusty

[Junction hunter]

Thank You so much. Almost grabbed the compound but didn't thanks to the encouragement.
I've been shooting much better from the tree now (at least at the target). Aiming low and bending at the waist. It really is different than the compound.
Thanks DRR324.

[ChuckC]

Jason, if you shoot at a target, shooting high is above 90 degrees to the target.  To the point of impact.  Imagine a target plane at 90 degrees to the flight of your arrow just like shooting from the ground.  If you are off a bit..oh well.  Now take that plane and turn it. like the vertical body of the deer  Now if you are off a bit, it can make more inches of difference. If you are short by an inch, the arrow travels down the vertical plane more than an inch before it impacts the vertical plane.  Shoot over it and the same thing happens only it hits the deer before traveling that extra inch, or higher.
ChuckC

[SOS]

Jason,
Make sure you take a couple of practice arrows to your treestand.  Take a couple of practice shots before you get down.  Will help you learn shooting from the stand, plus help learning bow clearances.  Good confidence builder.  I'm using a 6 arrow hip quiver this year and actually taking 3 blunts each time...plus, you never know when a armadillo will come by!

[Kingstaken]

I thought for us laymen the answer is shooting down hill sort-to say,  the arrow travels faster making for flatter trajectory, hence shooting over the top of the target.

[BobW]

Originally posted by Junction hunter:
 It really is different than the compound.
Thanks DRR324.

no it isn't.  The mechanics of the "Tee" and bend at the waste are identicle.  6 things to remember.... Form, form, form. Practice, practice, practice.