Hi Gang, I think this is my first post, but I've been lurking for a while.
It would seem that I'm un-learning how to shoot a bow. The more I shoot, the worse I get. I'm fairly confident I have target panic in some form or another, and I think it's beyond my own ability to fix.
Last week I made up a few new arrows. I had the girlfriend tap me on the shoulder when I was at full draw, and I'd release the string when she tapped me. The idea was that I wouldn't be able to anticipate the shot (We do this exact thing in classes with students anticipating recoil with handguns.). It seemed to work. I shot ok-ish, but had very consistent bareshaft arrow flight out to 30 yards.
I finished fletching my arrows, took them all out yesterday to shoot, and they fletched arrows looked like hey kicked left. I shot the bare shaft, and it hit the target sidways so bad, it snapped off. On top of that, I can't hit anything.
I'm pretty frustrated at this point. I live in Sandstone (east Central MN), and there's no archery shop near me that I know of, and certainly no one that shoots trad. That's not to say I won't drive a few hours for some instruction, I just don't know where to go.
Thanks for taking the time to read this long and rambling post, any help is very much appreciated.
Topic: Coaching in MN (Read 8631 times)
