Anybody practice shooting using just one arrow?Been doing it for a while now and seems to help alot.Its a pain sometimes going after one arrow but I think it will payoff when hunting season is here.Sometimes you amaze yourself on how you can shoot.......
You bet. Some of your world class trainers STRONGLY recommend only shooting one arrow. Groups teach us bad habits if we aren't careful.
I know I have a tendency to take a little more time with my shot if I know I have to walk over and retrieve that arrow after each shot. We usually only get one shot at an animal... so we need to make that one shot count, eh?
I sometimes shoot groups just to confirm consistency (or inconsistency). However I do all of my major practice with a single arrow.
Sometimes, but mostly it's one arrow at a distance theme another arrow for a new target and new distance. I do shoot two rounds of five arrows for group everytime I shoot though
90% of my practice is with a single arrow.
I should, my first shot is usually good and it's downhill from there for that particular target. When I move to next target I'm good one time again. Now if my first shot is bad, I try and concentrate and get it right before I move on.
One of my favorite things to do is similar to Brian's.
I'll take 6-8 arrows and place them at different distances and angles from the bag. I'll cycle through those. Keeps me from getting one sight picture burnt to deeply in my simple brain...LOL
I have started shooting just one arrow during practice and have seen great results.
Other than the trainers recommending to do so, my reasoning behind it is. Since I am practicing for hunting and hunting is a "one shot game" I want to practice that way
I shoot my usual string of 5 ends of 5, then one extra shot. I nock the arrow to the string as I would hunting. I wait for the shot allow anticipation to build, focus hard on a hair, come up, draw smoothly and a slight woosh. Where the arrow hits the target it stays there till I practice next. This reenforces that I have to live with that shot forever and to make that once in life time shot count.
All the time
Shooting a quiver full of arrows is the best way not to pratice. You will start making too many mistakes and develop bad habits. One or two at the most with one arrow being the best chooice.
helps your shoulders also
I practice with one arrow. At our ranges, it's not a big deal to walk down and get it.
one arrow only. i concentrate more on the target. it seems to help me and i need to walk a few pounds off
It makes me concentrate more and I get better groups lol.
As hunting season gets really close I start practicing with fewer arrows and count only the first one as a realistic shot. During hunting season I mostly shoot one arrow -- either at the end of an AM sit or at the beginning of a PM sit.
I believe in shooting groups as I am constantly trying to improve my shooting. If I begin to fear shooting groups I'm putting too much emphasis on aiming instead of the "back of the shot".
One arrow is great shooting practice. I also just started shooting one of those basketball-sized Rinehart targets that you just throw out somewhere. Knowing that a miss means I'm probably going to have to search in (and under) the grass, I tend to focus better.
The best shooting I've done in a long time was last week, at Compton. I have only shot one other time on an outdoor 3D course; usually I practice with 4 arrows, in my back yard. I was much less sloppy, more focused, and more consistent at Compton, where I got one arrow for each target.
At the range I go to I shoot one shot each at
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30 yards
I mix it up and shoot from 30 down
QuoteOriginally posted by Bowwild:
As hunting season gets really close I start practicing with fewer arrows and count only the first one as a realistic shot. During hunting season I mostly shoot one arrow -- either at the end of an AM sit or at the beginning of a PM sit.
I believe in shooting groups as I am constantly trying to improve my shooting. If I begin to fear shooting groups I'm putting too much emphasis on aiming instead of the "back of the shot".
X2 i do exactly the same thing. 2 or 3 arrows a day from different angles. pull after each shot.
I practice 5 days a week, 25-30 arrows per session and use 1 arrow at a time. I vary the distance ( 7-25yds.) and also the angles within reason. I have found that using this technique has improved my accuracy quite a bit. Only one shot counts is the mindset I take.
After reading that a number of guys find themselves shooting better using 1 arrow at a time, I gave it a try. It seems to work. I really do find myself concentrating much better than when shooting a bevy of arrows very quickly. This thread has been useful.
I started shooting 1 arrow for about a month now, and I like doing it. I think it helps me concentrate on that first shot and you get excercise doing it!
I mostly practice with only one or two. Lots of walking but worth it.
One arrow practice is the way to go... I kinda like the "cold shot" way of thinking.
... mike ...
I too shoot one at a time, I find I concentrate a lot harder on a bald target and pick my spot rather than shoot at the group of arrows sticking out o the target.
One arrow groups in the spot you want is what it's about!!!
The brain will have a tendency to correct an error on the second shot that it shouldn't have made (the error) on the first one. Seems my second shot groups have a way of being better than the first shot sometimes. So I been trying to carry one arrow in the backyard. I carry way less than I used to when out stumping too. I don't think it's helping me to hit a stumping object on the 6th shot that I should've hit on the first. Now if way far shots, that's different. Mucho fun to watch arrows flying at 100 yd. targets! I don't think there are many of us one shot hundred yard shooters :) :)
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And then this happens..........braggin' rights of sorts but that was my brand new first ever dz. carbon arrows turned into 11 arrows in one instant. Yea but dang!
One or two. Or else bad habits like stated before.
All the time.......
I mix it up but have recently switched to one arrow practice. It helps...
Actually, I am down to one arrow because I keep releasing them back to the wild - but honest, 1 arrow is good practice. I read that somewhere...
I wander around the pasture at home doing a lot of stump shooting with just one arrow. I find that I keep my concentration much better when just shooting one arrow compared to shooting multiple arrows on my 3-d or bag targets. I've gotten away from doing that and mostly just shoot one arrow at a time on them as well.
Great thread! Got me thinking of setting up 5 different positions around my target. And repeating it 4-5 times. 15 yards straight on, 22 yards straight on, 18 yards through 2 trees at a quartering angle, 25 yards elevated quartering, 16 yards elevated quartering. Shot standing kneeling, sitting. I also suggest keeping track of shots it possible.
One thing about shooting in the environment you hunt is that you learn to track your arrow in flight much better. I catch myself turning my brain off shooting at the bag - then its time to switch to a greater challenge.