"HOW
TO SHOOT YOUR BOW BETTER"
Check Your Equipment before You Hunt, and Line Up Your
Peep Sight for All Types of Shooting
EDITOR'S NOTE: Allen Conners of Gadsden, Alabama, the
winner of the title of World Champion Target Archer
numerous times, the Archery Shooters Association Shooter
of the Year award, the Cabela’s Championship and
the Buckmasters World Championship, Conners also loves
to bowhunt. He originally became a target archer to
improve his bowhunting skills and shoots target archery
when he can't go bowhunting, his first and foremost
priority. Hunting with a bow requires a great amount
of precision. To make an accurate bow shot, you have
to have your bow, arrows, broadheads and shooting skills
all finely-tuned, as John
Stiff mentioned yesterday. Conners says that over the
years he’s learned that the little things, the
forgotten or overlooked aspects of bowhunting, often
cause archers to miss their shots when they have bucks
in front of their broadheads.
Check Your Equipment Before You Hunt:
Before every hunt, make sure your cables and strings
are in good condition. Keep your strings and cables
waxed, and look for breaks in them. If you have an abrasion
on your cables or your string, more than likely you'll
have trouble in the field. If you have one or
two strands of your bowstrings broken, your peep sight
may not line up properly with your pinsight when you
draw back the bow to shoot. If your cable has abrasions
on it, your bow may be out of timing, causing the arrow
not to hit at the same point of impact it hit when you
left your home. Two or three small strings broken or
roughed-up on your cables or strings may make you to
miss a buck of a lifetime.
Line Up Your Peep Sight:
The peep sight causes the bowhunter to have a consistent
anchor to help aim and line up his shot. If you don't
have your peep sight adjusted properly, and you twist
and/or turn to shoot, and have to move your head to
see through your peep as you shoot, then your peep sight
actually can cause you to miss the deer.
When lining up your peep sight, look through the peep
sight as you aim straight ahead on level
ground. But also make sure you have the same anchor
point when you shoot down and away from your tree, up
and away from your tree and twist to take a shot on
the left and/or on the right. If you have to move your
head to see through your peep sight in any one of these
positions, then you'll change your anchor points, and
you won't shoot accurately. Always adjust your peep
sight so that regardless of how you have to turn your
body to make a shot, you still look through the peep
sight the same way each time. This small detail can
make a big difference when you have a buck in front
of you. Practice shooting from awkward positions, and
remain conscious of your anchor point's location.
TOMORROW: PRACTICE JUDGING
YARDAGE, DON'T JUST SHOOT DOTS, AND LEARN TO SHOOT UNDER
PRESSURE
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