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What Am I Doing Wrong in Archery?

I have been shooting a Parker Buckshot Bow Set at #50 and a 26" Draw Length, for over a year. At twenty yards I can group a 3 arrow group in a 6" circle but most people say I should be able to group at 3" or less. I use a Whisker Biscuit and many people have told me that's whats making me do things wrong. Others say its my follow through. But I think I'm doing something wrong. I am concerting switching to a better bow (Fred Bear Element because I can pull 70# and am now a 27" draw length). The last time I went Hunting I took 4 shots before I even hit a deer. Whats wrong???

First I bet your breathing while your shooting.

Just like a gun when you are at full draw take a breath and exhale ½ of the breath and HOLD the rest while you release.
Are you using a mechanical release, if not use one.

Any one that say that the whisker biscuit is the problem they have never shot with one, at 30 yards or below I damage arrows if I shoot more then one at a bulls eye and I use the whisker biscuit, BUT is it the right size biscuit to match your arrows shaft size. You have small hole for carbon arrows and large hole for aluminum arrows, use the wrong biscuit for the arrow you use and it can have bad results.

Now has your bow been tuned by a bow tech, if not, have it done before you give up on the bow, to me the bow looks fine but I have never shot that model.

If you want to test your tune, it’s easy. Take an arrow and remove all the fletchings and clean off all the glue residue, all you want is point, bare shaft and nock. Now shoot it at 20 yards and see if the arrow flies true, watch the back end of the arrow for any movement up or down or left or right. If you see any what so ever it’s out of tune.
It should fly as true at 20 to 30 yards as an arrow with fletchings, an out of tune bow makes the fletchings over work to stabilize the arrow at that range. I keep one arrow just for that reason, to test my bow every year.

If it’s out of tune don’t have a buddy tune it, have a real bow tech at an archery specialty shop do the tune up, it’s not that expensive and well worth it.

Next, are the arrows at the right spine weight, if not it will over flex and affect the way it flies and could affect accuracy.

Now as to the shoot 4 times to hit a deer, that’s nerves and poor target acquisition. If you can keep the arrows in a 6 inch ring, but miss a deer’s vitals that is over twice that size and then some.

I see two possible problems here.
1- you are aiming at the whole deer, hold your nerves together and pick a small spot in the center of that vitals and forget about the deer, shoot for that small spot only.
2- range estimation, if you guess wrong when a deer in your zone your shot is going to be off.
What I do is “well before season” I hang yellow survey tape ( a small amount ) from a limb at 10 yard intervals from my stand in every direction I plan to shoot. In 10 yards intervals you can then estimate the distance off the tape. But please who ever use survey tape in the woods, respect the woods and remove it after season.

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What Am I Doing Wrong in Archery?

I have been shooting a Parker Buckshot bow set at #50 and a 26" draw length, for over a year. At twenty yards I can group a 3 arrow group in a 6" circle but most people say I should be able to group at 3" or less. I use a whisker biscuit and many people have told me that's whats making me do things wrong. Others say its my follow through. But I think I'm doing something wrong. I am concerting switching to a better bow (Fred Bear Element because I can pull 70# and am now a 27" draw length). The last time I went hunting I took 4 shots before I even hit a deer. Whats wrong???

First I bet your breathing while your shooting.

Just like a gun when you are at full draw take a breath and exhale ½ of the breath and HOLD the rest while you release.
Are you using a mechanical release, if not use one.

Any one that say that the whisker biscuit is the problem they have never shot with one, at 30 yards or below I damage arrows if I shoot more then one at a bulls eye and I use the whisker biscuit, BUT is it the right size biscuit to match your arrows shaft size. You have small hole for carbon arrows and large hole for aluminum arrows, use the wrong biscuit for the arrow you use and it can have bad results.

Now has your bow been tuned by a bow tech, if not, have it done before you give up on the bow, to me the bow looks fine but I have never shot that model.

If you want to test your tune, it’s easy. Take an arrow and remove all the fletchings and clean off all the glue residue, all you want is point, bare shaft and nock. Now shoot it at 20 yards and see if the arrow flies true, watch the back end of the arrow for any movement up or down or left or right. If you see any what so ever it’s out of tune.
It should fly as true at 20 to 30 yards as an arrow with fletchings, an out of tune bow makes the fletchings over work to stabilize the arrow at that range. I keep one arrow just for that reason, to test my bow every year.

If it’s out of tune don’t have a buddy tune it, have a real bow tech at an archery specialty shop do the tune up, it’s not that expensive and well worth it.

Next, are the arrows at the right spine weight, if not it will over flex and affect the way it flies and could affect accuracy.

Now as to the shoot 4 times to hit a deer, that’s nerves and poor target acquisition. If you can keep the arrows in a 6 inch ring, but miss a deer’s vitals that is over twice that size and then some.

I see two possible problems here.
1- you are aiming at the whole deer, hold your nerves together and pick a small spot in the center of that vitals and forget about the deer, shoot for that small spot only.
2- range estimation, if you guess wrong when a deer in your zone your shot is going to be off.
What I do is “well before season” I hang yellow survey tape ( a small amount ) from a limb at 10 yard intervals from my stand in every direction I plan to shoot. In 10 yards intervals you can then estimate the distance off the tape. But please who ever use survey tape in the woods, respect the woods and remove it after season.

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