Dadgummit I messed up another opportunity again!! Shot high on a decent buck this morning at 15 yards or so. This is the 3rd deer dating back to last year that I've shot high on with my recurve! I practice every night a dozen or so shots concentrating on my shot sequence. I always seem to hit generally lower than where I intend to during practice but hunting I miss high. I cannot figure it out.
Read this months Traditional Archery magazine. There is a good article written by Fred Eichler about this subject...maybe you are not shooting high.
I know the feeling Chris. This year I have shot over one, had a great buck stop just short of my shooting lane and stand for 5 minutes, and a doe bust me drawing back. Gotta keep after it and one of these days it will all come together.
Make sure your bending at the waist if not can cause you to shoot high. Are they jumping the string.
QuoteOriginally posted by Rick Richard:
Read this months Traditional Archery magazine. There is a good article written by Fred Eichler about this subject...maybe you are not shooting high.
Do you have a link or know where I could find that?
yogibarrows when you practice do you practice from a stand?
Perhaps since you know you hit low when you practice, your over compensating by aiming high.
I dont have a good place to practice from an elevated position but I'm going to take time and try to do it. However 2 of the deer were basically eye level with me because I was on the side of a hill and they were on the uphill side.
I lean towards compensate high since you usually hit low in practice.
I use to stand on top of my old 966 IH tractor an shoot round bales at different distances. Really took my shooting to a new level very quickly.
don't just pick a spot,,, with your bow hand PUSH that fist right towards the spot also and with what I think your doing wrong is "Dont move anything upon the shot,, Don't try to look for a hit or what the arrow does because I wonder if your looking up at the shot or even anticipating the hit and you either look up and drop your anchor or just dropping your anchor hand and pulling low resulting in the arrow going high..
seriously pay attention to Denny sturgis on this where he tucks his chin,, draw back-lock-release- and don't move anything until the deer bounds off,,, oh and have a 2nd arrow ready because not moving sometimes offers a chance at 2nd shot.
also a clean miss sux but a clean miss is a good miss.. T
Picking a small spot is the key.
It is so easy to shoot at the middle of the kill area, but this is not good,enough and will,almost always result in a high shot.
You have to really zero in on that hair or off colored spot. My shot distance is reduced just because my eyes are not what they used to be.
And shooting downmfrom a,tree stand tends to make us shoot high.
Carry a blunt or practice arrow and try a shot from the tree each session. I've heard of some putting deer scent on the arrow fletching to stop deer.
You didn't mess up. You let that buck "pass low". I think it has happened to all of us.
homebru
If you are shooting from an elevation and now bending at the waist, this can cause high misses. For me, a lot more important to bend at the waist shooting without sights then when I was.
Don't give up!
When I shoot from an elevated position and feel the shot is right, I mentally say to myself "aim lower" and bring the bow down 4-5 additional inches. This seems to help me.