extending affective range?

[bowmaster12]

wos wonderign wha tyou folks thought is the best way to extend your affected shooting range?  IM comfortable out to 25 yards beyound that not so much and i know just flinging arrows at 30 yards isnt going ot help are there some drills a person can do or do i just accept 25 yards as my max?

[reddogge]

Shoot more at 30 yards and beyond (not being funny).  As in shooting a rifle at long yardages minor flaws and aiming errors are magnified so you must have perfect stance, form, draw, release and follow through to consistently hit your target.  Just do it and really work at your form.

[Big Bird]

what reddogge said.

[bmb]

learn your point-on distance and work on learning the different gaps between the target and arrow. alot guys say gap shooting requires a rangefinder but after you have shot enough you will KNOW the trajectory of the arrow and sight picture too....and you wont need a rangefinder. my effective range use to be 20 yrds now i will shoot out to 45yrds comfortably but limit hunting shots to 30! like everyone says one little flaw in form is magnified at longer distances.

good luck

[ishoot4thrills]

Exactly what reddogge and bmb said. Right on.

[Doc Pain]

The farther distance that you can practice at will show you more about your shooting form and your equipment set up.

[xtrema312]

Top shooters shoot well long range and they do a lot of long range shooting plus  blank and blind bale work to really hone form.

[Earthdog]

I shoot IFFA where I need to shoot out to 80 yards.

My favourite distance shooting practice is roving/stumping between 100-200 yards.

Something very few people do nowdays is shooting the cloth yard and wand shooting.
Both 100 to 200 yards and a lot more fun than shooting targets stuck on bales.

[zetabow]

I'm also an IFAA shooter and I do a lot of walkback from 10y to 80y, builds a very good sight picture memory of all the distances and make you hone your form. Start at 5-10 yards, take a shoot and move back a few yards after each shot, if you miss a shot go forward 5 yards and work baclwards again, what this does is allow you flow throough the easy distances and work more on the harder ditances.

Build your distance slowly over a period of time, if you extend the distance too far and too quickly you will lose confidence then form will start to fall apart.

Form and confidence is the key to distance shooting.

[bearsfeet]

I am the same as you I was only shooting good groups out to 25 yards. The way that worked for me was to shoot more and shoot more at 40 yards yards (working back to 40 from where ever I started). If i started to get arrows going all over the place then I would go up to a closer yardage like 15 or 20 and then move back. I never stoped with a group I was not happy with that also helped with my confindece.

[Quinn]

The farther you're shooting the more important form problems will become. I think picking that tiny target point is also more difficult as target distance increases, especially if your eyesight isn't perfect. I find it helpful to put a small bright dot on the target at longer distances to help with that.