Chuck Adams shooting tip

[tracker12]

Saw an article that Chuck Adams wrote on aiming techniques.  One thing he mentioned was to pick a spot, point the bow to the spot and draw to your anchor.  I find myself looking at the 3D argot during the deal and not really concentrating on the spot until I get to anchor.  Often times I have to really move to get on target.   Groups were much better picking the spot earlier.

[damascusdave]

Not sure I have ever done it any other way...the key for me is relaxed concentration...I find that too intense concentration on a spot is just as counterproductive as too little...I am always baffled when people say they missed an animal because they failed to pick a spot

DDave

[oldbohntr]

This is what I do and it works! Using Moebow's elliptical draw I start from a horizontal elbow position(both arms), draw to anchor w/o losing my focus on the spot, begin to exhale, and release.  Using this I became a much better shot than in all my years of various kinds of swing draw and other techniques.  For a hunter, this is NOT the minimum movement technique....but I have concluded that-once you get to the shot- accuracy trumps everything else.

It has recently gone awry because of a muscle injury to my back.  I know what I want to do, but it is so painful that I flinch or collapse at the release.  I have basically quit trying until I get medical help.

[Pheonixarcher]

Wish you the best and a speedy recovery Tom! Shoot a really light weight bow until you're healed.

I recently started shooting this way, and have noticed an improvement. I start by picking my spot, raise my bow, draw straight back from my spot to anchor, maintain a strong push to the target, and when everything feels right, the string is loosed, all the while focusing on my original spot. If I think about 'releasing' the string, or I look up to watch the arrow fly, my accuracy suffers. I've also found that this process has helped tremendously with my accuracy at varied angles (out of treestands).

[dave h]

Years ago I started shooting 3d tournys.I was the only one shooting a recurve at the time.No recurve stakes.I shot the compound stakes.This was before 3d targets just flat targets.I did well. Someone asked me how I shot so well. I told him I pick a spot within a spot and he just looked at me. Anyway I read that somewhere and also read the picturing something like an aspirin on the side of the target will help. Also many hours of stump shooting really went a long way with my shooting. I look at a spot then look at something on that spot and shoot. When I shoot I only concentrate on that spot and nothing else. I snap shoot so when my hit my anchor I let it fly. Before I started shooting like this I was looking at the entire target an would shoot high. Years of shooting also helps lol

[Uncle Buck]

I have always picked the spot first. One day on a whim i flipped my burlap bag over and instead of the usual 4 inch bullseye, I drew one the size of a quarter, My group size improved almost instantly. I think Howard hill was the one who said "aim small miss small"

[59Alaskan]

Sorry to hear of your predicament Tom.  I am working through similar issues.  

In terms of aiming, I am trying to actually not hold so long to save my neck/shoulder the strain at full draw.  So I am working in concentrating on the spot more before I draw.

Lots of ways to be successful that's for sure

[ChuckC]

Problem with listening to all the others is you hear the great techniques that work...for others.

Try parts of them all till you develop your own style and go with that.
ChuckC

[Jake Scott]

Chuck speaks the truth.  For a very long time I was very hung up trying to shoot exactly like my heroes shoot.  For instance, Howard Hill, Fred Bear, Byron Ferguson, Terry Green all shoot split, so in the beginning I thought split finger was absolutely without a doubt the only way.  One day I was goofing around on a stump shoot and thought I would try three under, just to say I had.  The result was a lot more dead stumps!  

My point is this...shooting barebow is a VERY personal thing.  Sure there are many principles that are universal to every style like alignment, bow arm, and back tension.  A lot of other things, grip on both bow and string, release, aiming method, etc, are individual and should be experimented with.  Listen to others and try new things, but at the end of the day do what works best for YOU.  Best of luck.

Jake

[Terry Green]

Split or 3 under doesn't matter...what mater is form.  Form is paramount over EVERYTHING!

   

[Legolas]

Old Indian saying:
"Aim for a rabbit's head -miss rabbit. Aim for rabbit's eye- hit head".  

[Rays Arrow]

Legolas, great saying but I though it was Elvish.