07-03-2004, 09:17 AM
this is the most common problems of all beginning archers. they shoot fine on the range but when they get out in the woods they shoot under the deer and cant for the life of them figure out what is going on. they go back to the range and find they are back on again.
rule number one never ajust your sites in the woods. if they are off, go home....
rule number two, every thing in the woods seems closer than it realy is. you see a deer, and it looks 2 times bigger than the paper deer you were shooting at on the range. that is because it is bigger, 4 times bigger than your paper target. [ul] [ul] [li]to over come this problem you need to do this. get your self a ball of twine. at home measuer your line to your range distances. tie a knot with a peice of ribbon in the knknot. do this for all your range pins on your site. [/li] [li]tie one end to your stand where you are sitting. that means if you are sitting 25 feet up in the tree you climb in to your stand dragging your string with you and tie it up there. throw down your ball of twine down and place a marker in half dozen places in all directions from where you are setting. do this for every ribbon on your twine. [/li] [li]this may seem amiturish to you, belive me, it isnt. many hunters find a way to mark their areas where it is un noticible while others use the same collored ribion to match the pin on their sight. [/li] [li]doing this will give you an exact measure of just how far away from your target you realy are. you will then be able to aim higher or lower as the situation presents its self.[/li][/ul] [li]it takes hundreds of hours of shooting in the woods to realy be able to hunt wild game and be able to know your bow well enough to know the ark of the arrow when realeased. [/li][/ul]
the second most common mistake made by the beginner archer is they pracitce with a blunt tiped arrow or a tiped arrow that is lighter than the razered arow they hunt with. this will result in under shots at known distances. [ul] [ul] [li]there are several methods of overcoming this problem. you can pratice shooting with the razors removed from your tip, there will be some loss but no where near the amount of what your are experiencing.[/li] [li]you can buy two sets of razors for your tips and pratice in bails of straw or artificial life targets. this will give you the best results.[/li] [li]if you can aford it buy two sets of arrows and tips. this way you have an exact match from your pratice to your hunting tools. this is the ablolute way to go because you will not damage or worp the shafts of your hunting arrows.[/li] [li]
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these are the first two things I would tell you to concentrate on. if you get these down you will be bringing home the sausage should it present itself.
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rule number one never ajust your sites in the woods. if they are off, go home....
rule number two, every thing in the woods seems closer than it realy is. you see a deer, and it looks 2 times bigger than the paper deer you were shooting at on the range. that is because it is bigger, 4 times bigger than your paper target. [ul] [ul] [li]to over come this problem you need to do this. get your self a ball of twine. at home measuer your line to your range distances. tie a knot with a peice of ribbon in the knknot. do this for all your range pins on your site. [/li] [li]tie one end to your stand where you are sitting. that means if you are sitting 25 feet up in the tree you climb in to your stand dragging your string with you and tie it up there. throw down your ball of twine down and place a marker in half dozen places in all directions from where you are setting. do this for every ribbon on your twine. [/li] [li]this may seem amiturish to you, belive me, it isnt. many hunters find a way to mark their areas where it is un noticible while others use the same collored ribion to match the pin on their sight. [/li] [li]doing this will give you an exact measure of just how far away from your target you realy are. you will then be able to aim higher or lower as the situation presents its self.[/li][/ul] [li]it takes hundreds of hours of shooting in the woods to realy be able to hunt wild game and be able to know your bow well enough to know the ark of the arrow when realeased. [/li][/ul]
the second most common mistake made by the beginner archer is they pracitce with a blunt tiped arrow or a tiped arrow that is lighter than the razered arow they hunt with. this will result in under shots at known distances. [ul] [ul] [li]there are several methods of overcoming this problem. you can pratice shooting with the razors removed from your tip, there will be some loss but no where near the amount of what your are experiencing.[/li] [li]you can buy two sets of razors for your tips and pratice in bails of straw or artificial life targets. this will give you the best results.[/li] [li]if you can aford it buy two sets of arrows and tips. this way you have an exact match from your pratice to your hunting tools. this is the ablolute way to go because you will not damage or worp the shafts of your hunting arrows.[/li] [li]
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these are the first two things I would tell you to concentrate on. if you get these down you will be bringing home the sausage should it present itself.
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