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It’s definitely one that works, just can hurt a little bit making that pinch with my bony fingers—shooting glove makes it easier. So I extend the thumb to hold the nocks down (the muscle and bone structure in my thumbs is messed up as I’ve grown ‘cause of my EDS—the first digit makes a 90 degree angle just making a thumbs-up) and the forefinger is already up over the odd feather. So for me it’s tricky to decide which to use. Have to keep testing I guess
Don’t just aim for a target face. Contrary to popular belief it’s actually easier to aim/hone your focus on something three dimensional and shoot at that instead of a two dimensional picture. So once you’ve landed your first successful arrow, use that. Or you can take some thing like a cup and pin the bottom of it to your target face and aim for the inside of the cup. Or you can put bottles and cans on a fence and shoot at them. Things like that
“Aim small, miss small.”
I grabbed this arrow that was in our trash bin (the shaft was broken so I pulled the nock out to save), jammed it into the ground like a stake and shot downhill directly at it. Mostly the closest I could hit was where the fletching would rub it, I only heard that CLACK of hitting it—grazing it, no damage—once. One my last three arrows I changed my grip on the third one so that the thumb and forefinger were out and not tensed. I shot that last arrow and then SNAP! Broke the useless arrow in half. Luckily there’s enough left where I can try the same thing again. It’ll just be shorter.
July 14th, 2020. I draw back to bowstring so that my curled middle finger touches the point of my jaw (not underneath it) while the index finger holds the arrow against the right side of the bow. I release cleanly, both hands still, having better control with my back and shoulder muscles in play. That’s a detail that a lot of beginner archers don’t think about and then it has a ripple effect. You need to know from the beginning to use your shoulders, not rely on your arms to do all the work because otherwise you’ll mess up your shots
Let’s face it I’m not exactly Howard Hill. I was trying to hit the bottle but instead I hit the first arrow’s shaft directly and split it like a twig—just a sliver of that outer layer holding the two pieces together. Those were my last two of the repaired/replacement arrows still intact so I better start using the yellow ones that I haven’t tried out yet.
Those yellow-fletched ones make me think Green Arrow and the Canaries, like he goes armed with “canary arrows” in his quiver or something.
Shot through the container and off the railing and look! Still two arrows left in my hand. I shot those two kneeling down with the bow tilted to the right
That’s the distance (15 yards, give or take) and my first attempt groupings with the Slavic draw, middle and ring fingers anchored at the point of the jaw for added power.
I cut the palm side off of my old shooting glove a while back so that the nocks wouldn’t get caught in it and hinder any successive shooting. It’s not as heavily layered as my newer one so it should help build up the muscles in my fingers and thus exercise self-control on the release.
I shot this arrow and then shot my second arrow directly at it and broke the nock. Just replaced it with one of the spares; spares from the dozens of other arrows I’ve broken over the last few years
