A couple of years back, I talked a guy into hunting with a recurve, a 47 pound Grayling Bear Kodiak. He kept saying that he was going to hunt with his wheels because he did not trust his aim. I told him to draw it back like Fred Bear, anchor deep and let it go. He said that he did not know where to put the arrow. I told him that it was okay to see the arrow, but not okay to look at it, just keep going through the shot at ten yards until it all becomes natural. Then he said, "So you put the arrow higher on long shots? How much higher?" I told him to take a step back after every twenty or thirty arrows, starting at less than ten yards and "do not look at the arrow, you can see it well enough." One week later he came and was complaining that at thirty-five yards he would miss his deer target two out of six arrows, but at 25 yards he only missed once in awhile and most were in the kill zone, so he should maybe hunt with his compound. I told him that he was not going to shoot further than 25 yards anyway, sell the wheels to your buddy. He got a nice little eight pointer the second day of the deer season with his recurve, with a wood arrow and a Bear Razorhead with bleeder blades attached.
Topic: Man I love shooting traditional bows (Read 270 times)
