Drawing /Anchoring Help Needed

[BobCo 1965]

I thought I'd ask a question on a problem that I have had for years that lately is really starting to drive me a little crazy           .

I like to use a partial swing draw and like to pull the final 4-5 inches straight back to anchor (middle finger corner of mouth, split finger) under the dominant eye in one controlled fluid motion.

Here is my problem. I have what I consider rather large palms. When I bring the arrow back those final inches straight back my palm hits my face and has to go around my cheek. When this happens, the arrow goes out of alignment and points left (I shoot right handed) not to mention posible torque I'm putting on the riser. After the palm goes around this point I can get the arrow back in alignment under my eye, but this going out and coming back in kind of drives me crazy.  I have tried tucking the thumb dowm which makes it worse and resting the thumb ontop which helps a little but not 100%.

Any ideas?

[BLACK WOLF]

Have you tried different head positions or tried different positions of bending at the waiste?

Ray  

[longbowguy]

Are you using the deep hook to hold the string. Compared with the finger tip hold the deep one enable the hand to relax a bit and take a flatter shape. Some hold in the crease of the middle finger; some, including myself, prefer to go deeper, into the pad of the second phalange of the middle finger. Where it reaches on the other fingers depend upon their relative length. I hope this helps. - lbg

[BobCo 1965]

Steve,

It is kind of funny that you mentioned that. I did a complete examination of different things and noticed that my ring fing was not completely deep hooking the string. For the past few days, I have been concentrating on the deep hook of all fingers and have not noticed the problem as much.

[Orion]

Turning your head a little more to the left before you draw and/or opening your stance a little, i.e., turning a little more toward the target, might also help.

[dcolavito]

Bobco

You might consider drawing back a little slower - or at least during the portion of your 'work around'.  I have an  issue that's sort of similar to yours, and find that drawing a tad slower tends to even things out a bit, making my 'work around' less noticeable and therefore less distracting, thereby improving the quality of my anchor.

dunno, maybe it will help a bit.

Dave