Shakey bow arm

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Hey guys lookin for a little help here. for some reason i cant rid myself of a shakey bow arm. first thing im not over bowed, but when i get to full draw my bow arm jyst stsrys shakeing. im learned to bear down and concentrate through it and shoot pretty good but i wish i knew how good i could be not shakeing any help appreciated greatly . thank you

[moebow]

As usual, pictures or video please.  A couple questions, are you maintaining good bone on bone in your bow arm?  Is your bow arm as close to 90 degrees as possible to your spine/torso?

Less muscle and more bone could go a long way to settling you down.  For some of us (me) as we get older a general "shake" develops that is not related to bow weight -- in fact for me, the shaking gets less at higher draw weights and is more apparent at light weights.

Arne

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When you say.bone on bone in the arm exactly what does that mean?

[moebow]

Bow presses into the base of the thumb directly in front of the radius bone in the forearm. Then with the elbow pronated,and the elbow is straight but NOT locked, the radius is directly in line with the humorus (upper arm bone) which in turn is set into a solid, down and back bow shoulder.

You get essentially a "bone" beam from the bow to your shoulder.  There is more to bone on bone but the rest is done on the string side.  When you find good bone on bone alignment, you will actually feel an easing of the bow weight as the bones line up and take the weight of the bow.

Arne

[Diamond Paul]

Shooting longbow or recurve?  Lonbows tend to be very light and harder to hold still (simple physics).  If as Arne said your alignment is off the bow is going to want to move sideways in reaction to the shot rather than straight at the target; creeping, losing back tension does that, too.  If you don't have one on there now, try a strap-on bow quiver to add weight and increase inertia.

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Im shooting long bow with a strap on quiver. id like to get a slightly heavier quiver like a great northern

[moebow]

as...r,

So which is it?  Shaking at full draw (tremors?) or a bow hand that "flails" around at release?  Weight won't necessarily help "tremors" it can help steadying the bow hand at and after release. But the two different things are not really related.

Arne

[Diamond Paul]

Yeah, I didn't realize what was being said; you are shaking at full draw from what it sounds like.  Only you know if you are overbowed or not, but normally trying to hold too much weight can make you shake, especially if you are using the wrong muscles to do it.  How heavy is the bow (draw weight)?  Any chance it is stacking because of your draw length?  Maybe you are making such an effort to push with your bow hand that it causes you to shake?  Hard to know without seeing you do it.  I guess I was thinking you were talking about the bow moving at the shot, not at full draw, or simply that you were having a hard time holding it on target.

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My bow is 48lbs at 28". Im shakeung at full draw. it almost soynds as if im not useing the right muscles....

[Diamond Paul]

Try shooting at point blank range for a while, with no worries about aiming.

[Terry Green]

If you totally stop pulling, you may start to shake...try to totally not stop pulling...I'm talking just ever so slowly just barely creeping back...that motion will keep you from shaking.

Give that a try and see how it goes.

[LongStick64]

Are your arms tense when you are at anchor, the tension should be on your back muscles, not your hands and arms.

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Thanks guys im going to try the creeping back thing terry hopefuly that will help. It just gets annoying after awhile

[Longbow58]

Terry and Moebow did it for me. Bone alignment and keep pulling through your shot. Don't stop your shot.

[njloco]

I don't know what kind of physical shape your in but, my older son can swing a 106# kettlebell, he only weighs 150#, yet he can't hold one of my bows (50#) more steady than me. It all depends on bone on bone and using the right muscles. I work out just so I can keep pulling back my bows and be steady.

Try doing some blind bale shooting and see if it still happens.