Hardest obstacle to overcome

[joe skipp]

I'm not the greatest longbow shot and learning the "Swing Draw" that John Schulz teaches was the toughest. I use a push/pull to draw and shoot my recurves but it doesn't work well for me shooting the longbow.

Alot of practice and re watching the Schulz video has improved my accuracy tremendously. I'm now very confident in my shooting the past few years.

[bro-n-arrow]

Been battling target panic for 60 years!No cure in sight,there's nothing worse. But for some reason I still love bowhunting. Talk about doing it the hard way.

I went out with my right favorite right hand longbow today. Nope, no target panic, I must have lost it. Nope, no stiff release fingers, I could play guitar just fine afterwards. shot some with my left hand longbow, that went just fine as well. Now the hardest thing for me will be killing a deer and eating it. Oh wait I've got one. Getting out of bed soon enough to get way out to where I hunt before sunrise. I have got my hours flipped because of my telescope, note the posting time.

[Stumpknocker]

Target panic for sure.

[buckeyebowhunter]

Pretty much everything everyone has said      gotta love traditional archery

[cuboodle]

Trying not to think at all during draw and the shot pick a spot that's it let everything else happen without thinking

[jrbows]

Getting started in traditional there was seriously no-one to ask locally and I didn't have access to a web-site like this at the time that was the biggest obstacle, there have been a lot of smaller ones since then.

[Bama Recurve]

Snap shooting.
If I draw I HAVE to release. The world may end if I hold my anchor. It's not bow weight either.
I tried shooting my 35# curve. Same thing..

I know Fred Bear was a snap shooter, but hey..
We all can't be "Fred Bear"

[DennyK]

Learning to shoot left handed after a permenant injury which inabled me to shoot right handed.

[BOWMARKS]

Originally posted by KOOK68:
Holding too long, waiting for the shot to "materialize"

X2  

[LYONEL]

Hardest obstacle to overcome  

"My wife & lack of time & my wife"
Thankfully I have a nine year old daughter who loves archery who sticks up for me & gets mum on side most of the time!

[Hoyt]

Pulling through my release with back tension. I have a tendency to just release..semi dead. Which is okay, but my best shots are always when I pull through with back tension...also more zip.

[South MS Bowhunter]

TTtttt PPpppp  

[drewsbow]

my mind

[JDunlap]

TP, my own special version of it.