getting the arrow down

[jtwalsh62]

I am shooting over everthing (spilt fingers) I always seem to shoot high .I have shot over 2 deer this year sofar and the the one I did get I hit High How can I get the arrow down

[Don Stokes]

Practice, practice, practice. You got to pick that spot!

[McDave]

I find that if I have an occasional high shot, it usually means that I have shifted my focus from the target to the arrow, without intending to do so.  On the next shot, if I purposely concentrate on the target, I usually hit close to where I'm looking, within my usual margin of error.

Since this is an occasional thing with me, I don't know if it would help if you usually shoot high.

A lot of times when shooting at a live deer one tends to shoot at the outline of the back of the animal.  When anyone, including myself does this, I say tilt the bow, bore a hole through it and shoot low at the animal.

[ozy clint]

i had a real bad problem with shooting high. relaxing my bow hand a little helped me alot.

i feel your pain

[cbCrow]

I also had a bad problem shooting high and still do if I don't concentrate on it. It was so bad that a friend came over to video me as I shot to see if we could find what was causing it. As I would come to draw and anchor I would drop my elbow just a little, causing my index finger to be last off the string. Once I found out my shooting has greatly improved. My buddy said it looked like I was almost rolling my shoulder causing my elbow to drop. If you can have a friend watch when you shoot and between the 2 of you may find what causing it.  

[Terry Green]

You MUST pick a spot...and shoot where you are looking.  If you are seeing the whole animal, you will shoot over it every time or hit it too high.

Believe me, I know....same thing happen to me years ago when I switched from the compound....could shoot leave, pine cones, mushrooms like nobody's business....yet shot over animal after animal.  Then once I found out what I was doing....problem SOLVED!!!

[dragonheart]

Pick a hair, a small small spot, the size of a quarter or smaller and when you shoot that is all you concentrate on.  Bore a hole through it!!

[jtwalsh62]

Thanks Guys

[landman]

I do the same thing if I don't bore in on that one spot that I want to hit.   it's the dangest thing.   I can draw, relax, pick my spot and if I lose my concentration, the arrow goes to flinders.....  The concentration MUST continue until after that arrow hits and for the life of me I can't understand why my concentration drifts during that short, short time.

[Rattus58]

Originally posted by McDave:
 I find that if I have an occasional high shot, it usually means that I have shifted my focus from the target to the arrow, without intending to do so.

I think you're right about the focus part. I had this problem of shooting over targets (usually dinner) for years. Then an old guy (then... really old now) taught me a simple trick.. he told me that if I was going to pick a spot, make sure my arrow was pointed at it.... what he meant..

If you are "picking a spot... burning that hole in the fur" make sure you've got the arrow in the picture.

It doesn't hurt to use the arrow for aiming, and if you do, take one last look from the arrow to the target so that your last look is at the "fur".

Much Aloha...  

[hvyhitter]

Close shots out of a tree also tend to hit high...I will usually focus on a low spot to take my shot.

[S.C. Hunter]

It is the spot no doubt. It happens in all sports you have to aim small. It really hurts when you watch your arrow pass a few inches high right over the center of the vitals. Practice and more practice. Good luck.