floating anchor

[Slickhead]

Anyone shoot with a floating anchor?
I was thinking of getting a primitive bow that the max will be 20-24"
This naturally will require a floating anchor.
Just wondering how accuratly these can be shot.

Let me know

[Jim Wright]

I am assuming you are referring to your draw hand position just before release and perhaps I am missing something, but you cannot have an anchor that is "floating".

[KentuckyTJ]

I do. I have no anchor point. Comes from all the bowfishing I do. All quick shots at all angles. Comes in handy deer hunting but is a mess on a 3-D range. When I just pull back and shoot I can do ok on the range but when I start trying to aim its not good.

[mmgrode]

Well, many indian tribes shot with a floating anchor and a short draw and kept their families alive with them.  The more you shoot the better you will get at it.

With that said, I'd personally not shoot one due to the tendency for development of target panic/freezing early.  It took me several years to break my own freezing early issues.  Also, you will not get nearly the ballistic performance with the short draw as you will with the long.  A solid anchor point is very much associated with accurate, consistent shooting.

Cheers, Matt

[RedShaft]

I will tell ya I had quite a few bad cases of target panic. And would short draw bad. Well I never hit anchor but I could shoot exceptionally well. But I shot all the time.  So it absolutely can be done.

I worked hard to get a solid anchor. But if you had to...

[dirtguy]

Slick head - do you have a particular bow in mind that has a short draw length? Because you don't have to have a short DL just because it is a primitive bow.

Also, you can still have a consistent anchor even with a shorter than normal DL.

[Terry Green]

Even though I use a 'double anchor'....I have been shots made on animals with a floater.  Just a few....but the shot required it...VERY awkward positions.