Summer is the perfect time to hone your bow shooting skills for the upcoming season. G5 Prime has some great tips to make you a better shot this summer.
Anything can throw an arrow off the mark. Bad grip, rushed breathing, poor form, a bad stance, or even just a slight twitch in your arm are all among leading causes of missed shots. These in the hunting industry are usually blamed on buck fever…coincidence not likely! Practice makes perfect, but ensuring you practice correctly is the first step in learning how to shoot a bow perfectly. Understanding different methods to improve breathing, stance, and grip are essential to building better archery shooting habits.
The Off-Season Grind
In the coming weeks, you will likely visit an archery technician shop to have your bow tuned up for the coming season. Then, after picking up the freshly tuned compound bow, the struggle of regaining mechanics from months of inactivity shows on paper. Arrows fly everywhere as you try to regain the confidence you had in the fall and work backwards to your maximum distances. This happens with many hunters, especially in snow heavy states where months of that terrible cold white stuff keeps shooters indoors. While not everyone can take the time to join a winter archery league practice does not always happen every day as one would like. Through the struggle of regaining confidence and mechanics it is important to remember major influencing factors determining the consistency of accuracy. Breathing and the way you grip your bow make up big reasons bow hunters struggle with being consistently accurate. Working on these micro-mechanics can be the difference between full freezers and fully intact tags. [Continued]
