middle vs index anchor

[Bear Heart]

I shoot 3 fingers under and have always anchored with my middle finger.  For hunting situations this has been great.  Problem is I get the crap kicked out of me at every 3D shoot.  I didn't realize what an issue I was causing myself until I starting shooting a 50# Jerry Hill longbow.  Much slower than my 60# Sovereign Ballistik recurve.  I kept running out of gas before I got to targets that were in the 40 yard plus range.  As a fix I worked on anchoring with my index finger and shot 40 yards most of the night.  Tremendous difference.  Has anyone else done something like this?

[seany916]

I've always anchored index to corner. Some guys'll change anchors/overdraw & anchor with thumb behind ear/facewalk/anchor with pinky to get the arrow tip where they want it.

I prefer to just stick with one anchor and start by memorizing the gaps (which over time become instinctive).  

Though this might explain why I keep losing arrows...

[Bear Heart]

I am going to stick with one anchor.  It's just going to be my new one.  I shot my best today with it. 9 arrows in a 5" diameter circle from 30 yards.  With this Hill bow that's a feat for me.

[reddogge]

For hunting I only use middle finger but for the longer shots in the "games" I will drop it down to the index finger to hit those 40 and 50 yarders.

[snag]

Interesting! I just went the other way. I shoot 3 under too. But I went from index to middle finger in corner of mouth. This provided me to be able to put the fletching on my nose and my hand fits nicely on my checkbone. Really consistant. My groupings at 20yds are right at 3"-4". I think if I had some place to shoot out to 30yds. I may want to change back. But for the most part my shooting and hunting distances are under 25yds.  Still playing around with it at this point. But it seems to work for me.