I need help!

[**DONOTDELETE**]

Originally posted by CRS:
I picked up this tip from some military snipers and martial arts.

Three slow deeps breaths, in through your nose, out through your mouth.

Oxygenates the blood while giving time to focus on the task at hand.

This is spot on.... if you work your breathing into your practice it will help your accuracy level too.....

I tend to go into a dead calm when the moment of truth is upon me, and get my adrenaline surge AFTER the shot. Then i shake like a leaf..LOL

[9 Shocks]

I shoot my best at game when I have as little time as possible to get worked up.  I hunt an area where it is so thick that the deer are on you before you know it and you just have to grab the bow and go!  If I see a big buck off in the distance and he slowly and methodically works my way and then I get a shooting opportunity I get waaaaaaaay more worked up prior to the shot.  Keep at it.  I still get very over excited and jittery but I love it!  And I have become better in time with executing during those times.

[Ryman Cat]

Next deer regardless of what it is draw down on them and then let off and just sit there don't shoot. Try that for a few deer and get the motion of going through the sequesnce. You might find it settles your nerves down some.Try it and let us know.

Good luck.

[bear bowman]

Thanks guys. This is killing me. I've killed loads of deer with a compound, I always shook but I was able to draw ahead of time and hold, this seemed to help settle my nerves. I will try the above ideas and get back to you. Thanks again.

[VA Elite]

just keep going. I'm right there with you, I know I will miss again at some point, but this is why I chose this journey.

[John3]

I've bowhunted close to 30 years and still get excited and shaky but after the shot.  Focus on a single hair to hit with your broadhead...  Forget the "whole deer" pick a single hair to hit and only look there. I call this going into automatic mode.  This has helped me.  If you can't get focused on a tiny spot to hit don't draw your bow. Focus erases all other issues. Fall apart after is fine and I still giggle a bit as my legs shake for a minute after a close encounter.  Bowhunting is awesome!!

[dbd870]

Focus on a spot concentrate on that and it helps put all rest of what is going on in your mind on the back burner (somewhat at least). Even so sometimes things just happen. Saturday evening had a doe at 18yds. - seemed like it took forever for her to move into my shooting lane, I finally had a shot. Drew on her and focused just like I stated above. Just as I decided to let the arrow loose she turned 180 degrees and by the time the arrow got there it her rump was now where her lungs were. If she hadn't moved I would have had a good double lung shot. I couldn't believe my eyes. I walked the side of that ridge looking for blood or my arrow  - nothing. Sometimes things happen - you just have to keep at it. Go get that next one.

[Nantahala Nut]

Focus on your shot routine. I am a golf pro and I teach pre shot routines all the time.  I ingrain that routine during practice when theres no pressure.  When the pressure is on that routine helps people feel more comfortable and the process becomes more subconscious.

  I still get the shakes every time too.  Even if a deer walks by that I have no intention of taking a shot at I still get excited.  That excitement is why most of us hunt so embrace it and don't be too hard on yourself. A lot of the very experienced guys on here have said they still get the shakes.  I think they just learn how to perform with them.