Does everyone have good shooting days and bad shooting days?
I've been having a bad week with my Bear Montana longbow, thinkin' about just hunting with the Kodiak. Bow season is upon us Michigan hunters and I want to be confident in my shots. I can make a 10-15 yard shot, but once I get up to about 20-25 I get a lot of fliers. I know I can hunt at 15 yards but I want to have the assurance I can hit something at 20 yards, especially because I will not always be able to get really close. Guess I'm just having a lot of confidence issues right now, I get frustrated really quickly when I shoot. I know it's supposed to be fun, and I probably don't shoot well because I get frustrated.    
Bakes

Zach, sorry I havent gotten back to you to shoot.  I got pretty busy around here.  

We all have our good days and our bad days.  The number one thing is to try not to let it get to you.  When I seem to be having a bad day I just step up to 5 yards and work on my form.  Nobody is dead nuts on all the time.  When you start to get frustrated it is time to quite for a while.  Just put the bow down and go do something else for a while then come back with a fresh mind.  When you get frustrated you start making more mistakes and your shooting almost always gets worse.  It will come around just keep working at it.

I get that way sometimes.  It's usualy because i start shootin like a semi-auto gun.  I have to slow down and really concentrate, then it seems like i shoot that one arrow thats perfect and try do remember exactly how it felt.

Everytime I shoot no matter how good of groups I am getting, I always make that one shot that is unacceptable when hunting, and that makes me frustrated.  I have the same comfort range as you do, and I will stick with shooting from 10-15 yards.  Good luck and shoot straight! -Lee

We all have off days... I learned years ago not to "try" too hard. Put the bow away if only for a few hours. Get away and stop thinking about archery and rest.

Bad shooting is a form issue. Getting tired can/will result in form mistakes.  I think it was G. Fred in one of his books that wrote you will shoot a traditional bow as well as you can concentrate.  He is correct.

JDS III

Sometimes you have to quit thinking and let the ingrained form take over.

"Some days are diamond, some days are stone; sometimes the hard times, won't leave me alone.
Sometimes a cold wind, blows a chill in my bones;
some days are diamond, some days are stone."  John Denver

Yes good and bad days.If you try to hard you shoot bad .Some days i go outside and kill the target and then the next day the target kills me.