Archery Tips: Keys To Being More Accurate With Your Bow

Trail goes over the key components to be more accurate with your bow and proper bow shooting techniques to implement while practicing at the archery range.

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[ScottMackintosh]

Excellent Video. There was zero arrogance or Know-it-all mentality but full of Humble confidence. Great content and Great job!

[tybot]

The best archers, hunters, soccer players, golfers, etc. are the ones that are fundamentally sound. Sometimes I see these videos and think “I’ve already seen these tips, what’s going to get me to the next level?” Then I watch this and am reminded I still need to work on my fundamentals. Thank you for sharing.

[Liz_S]

Good review. I've been shooting for 30+ years. You are a fantastic archery instructor. There will be less wounded animals out there with your good instruction.

[KTMsoldier]

Every now and then you just need a refresher to remind you of something you could be doing wrong and i think lately i have been focused too much on looking at my pins and not the spot im aiming at and i can feel my groups are not as good as they once were. Will be working on this tomorrow! Great video!

[Joshua_David_W]

I used to play Golf for a living and shot a bow for the first time 3 days ago because I quit playing last year. The guys who built my SS34 didn't believe i had never shot before because my Groups were so tight. Without anyone telling me my mental thought because of golf was that pressure between my shoulder blades! Focus on being centered and balanced and what muscles control that the most! in all Target sports this is how it works! I am so excited to join the archery world and appreciate all you do brother!

[harvestpnw]

Also, one thing a beginner (such as myself) should be aware of: If your using a wrist-strap style trigger release; make sure that it's adjusted accordingly so it doesn't mess up your draw length. If it's too loose, it will ride up on your palm making your draw longer. If it's too tight, it might make you draw shorter. Also, the trigger mechanism usually has micro-adjustments (sliding it forward or back on the shaft) to really make the release perfect for your anchor points and draw.
Great video!

[MichaelSmithfu]

Shooting bow is one of the best therapeutic things for many people

[williambowfishing]

100% agree on everything you stated. I was brought up in the shop at a young age by an old timer that was very serious about back tension and I can't thank him enough for the style he taught me which is exactly they way you've explained here. So many little things are missed by so many archers that drastically effect their accuracy and comfortability in the shot. Precise draw lenght is extremely overlooked and as you stated does absolutely make a big difference in steadiness which results in shot confidence.

[bornandraisedoutdoors]

This is a great video!!


I've had the privilege of personally hunting with Trail and he's an amazing shot. Very consistent and accurate.


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[desesrtdude]

Seriously great delivery Trail! Ive sat through tons of courses over the years and some instructors just have a way of connecting with their audience. Excellent job. I just finished up a dozen reps applying several of the gems I picked up in your video. Thanks man! Its all about the fundamentals 🏹

[jacquesofalltrades]

Thanks for this video! One of my buddies invited me on a whim for a bow hunt in East Texas. I've shot recurve recreationally for years. I had never even picked up a compound til 2 weeks ago. I have another week and a half til we go. This video has definitely been helpful!

[prioritytree]

Awesome information. I took an archery class in college 38 years ago. I shot ambidextrous, left or right. I was going to really get into it. But I got into scuba diving and the archery went by the wayside. This guy is a really good instructor. I remember the basics of follow through. I would like to get back into it. Inspiring.

[rickd]

Straight to the point. Excellent video with a lot of useful information. Every time I pull all of these techniques together, stance, draw, relaxed, level and squeeze I’m in the black and feel everything working together throughout the entire shot and it feels great. I just need to work on repeating it every shot.

[johnfilmore]

This has been amazing enlightening! You seem to understand the bio-physics of archery at another level, I am blown away!!
I just started shooting last year but its weird I can shoot equally with both left and right hands, I'm right-handed but Ive visualized myself with bow in the left hand and arrows find the target. I wanted a new bow and all they had were right-handed bows, I can keep 9 of 10 in the yellow circle at the 20 line shooting their used left-handed bow, but my new right handed bow was opening up almost to a dinnerplate, until I was told to drop my shoulder and somehow the right-hand bow was shooting about as well as the left hand bow.

I just haven't shot enough to know if a bow is left or right hand from looking st it, I've shot probably 60 arrows since I started last year,

just picked got it back out today and couldn't figure out why I couldn't do better than a pie-plate at 10 yards, and the grip felt so unbalanced, and then I realised I was holding the bow with my left hand.

i think letting the bow balance on the web of your grip hand was just intuitive, as is controlling breathing, which carries over from martial arts, so the biophysics would be the same: inhale as you begin the draw, exhale as you get to the let-off or whatever the part of the draw where its easy to pull back is called, so that as the peep comes to your eye, string to your nose, round thing to your mouth, you have fully exhaled as you anchor. The pin with be floating in your peep but the looping path is predictable at the bottom of an exhale, so your back is tensioning as the pin is rolling back onto the target.

As you think about one last try to push out any last remaining exhale, it pushes your chest out so your back tensions as your shoulder blades try to touch each other. Your muscles enter a neutral tension as you hold yourself in the valley of the exhale, so the floating pin slows to a barely perceptible movement, floating. This is where, figuratively, time stands still, 10 seconds feels like an eternity, as everything is moving the same way but slow motion.
You hear the faint "clink" of the release breaking like an icicle, the "thhkk" sound of the loop slipping off the release, the "kuh" of the arrow unnocking from the string, and the "tuh" of the string slapping on the buffer, and the corner of your eye catches the arrow flexing and bowing as its nock popped off the string,
you try to estimate what your safety margin is for hitting vitals, the arrow stabilizes into a slow arc, and you wonder how the buck hasnt seen it yet.

The arrow finishes its arc into the buck, who continues to stand there with a perplexed look, miliaeconds feel like hours as you're wondering why this wasnt a fatal shot, maybe it was a fieldpoint arrow...as fight or flight comes over the buck and it lunges to the tround before leaping into the sky behind it, decides to run off in the other direction, presumably to throw off the scent of deer-satan in deer-purgatory, and you look forward to a couple hours of wandering aimlessly ... errr, tracking yeah that.
If nothing else ya gotta recover that arrow, because the nagging question on whether or not you shoot the buck with a practice arrow just wont go away.

[diegogalindo]

Best way to explain how to get a great form and shot execution plus prevent target panic in less 15min. Congrats man.
Grateful archer here. 👊👊

[jamesstewart]

Thanks Trail! I'll rewatch this a few times more for sure!

[jamesmatlock]

I’ve been shooting a recurve for about 5 years and I could never get consistent with it. Just bought a compound and was thinking I’m going to start hitting bullseyes right away, but not as much as I would like. Going to try and use several of these tips. Even the ones I knew this was a good reminder.

[DrewDiaz]

Have to tell you, after watching this yesterday, went out this morning to concentrate on my release- and realized I’ve been reaching for the button, shortened it 3/8-1/2” and I’m amazed at the change in consistency

[KF]

Just got a compound bow today. Haven't shot for 20 years since using a recurve at school. Thanks for the informative video. My takeaway was "focus on the target, not the bow". Cheers.

[darylreadman]

I am very, very impressed and honestly
this was full of good reminders that make a great archer out of anyone willing to listen and apply the advice. Thanks!