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Maybe you’re catching to much draft from the loin cloth.

If you really want it to be magical use a loin clothe with a mojo bone tied around your neck and a coon tail from a coon harvested on a full moon...lol

Oh he can definitely be a hoot.

The Rob might get him one of them things them sumo wrestlers wear. Now that would be a sight to see.

You get that and I will shoot a round with you while wearing my kilt.

Hmmmm.......wait a minute, you wear dresses already.

It will have to get a lot warm if The Rob is going to wear a sumo thong. Loin clothes are drafty enough.

If you have the area, buy you a hay bale for $30-40 and shoot at it. Get close enough you don’t even have to worry about where the arrow is going and just work on form. It’s not easy to pick up a stick bow and go to town though. I had it a little easier because I learned on one, so I don’t have that point in time where I switched and had to retrain myself. Anyway, just pick it up and shoot 5-10 shots a day and you start feeling more comfortable with it.

Indeed, what you describe is what I refer to as "blind bale" practice and it does ingrain the anchor points and shot execution without the added complication or temptation of aiming.

I setup a plain bag target in the garage with a 10 to 12 foot shooting lane. I set this up in the garage so I could work this whenever I get a chance and didn't have to worry about the weather or time of day. I focus on drawing to my first anchor point, feeling the pressure of the string on my finger, expand my chest, relax my fingers, and make sure my hand hits the second anchor point after the shot. Then repeat.

My traditional skills are advancing rather nicely at this moment. I can stay within the 8 rings on a 3D Deer target from point blank to 25 yards pretty consistently. Of course there is the occasional string pluck, dropped bow arm, too much back tension, too little back tension, and brain farts that sent my arrows of the mark. But I can now recognize these issues when I do them, make the appropriate corrections, and continue on my tradition archery path.

I have the same deal in my basement with a horse mat hung behind it. Yeah one thing about traditional bows is no matter how much of an expert you are, you’re going to send one wide. I’ll send 10 arrows dead center and the 11th will hit wide. That’s the nature of the beast though. A first for me last season was shooting a deer on the move. I had never considered it before but shoot instinctively and had drawn and let it fly before I had the chance to tell myself not too. I’m bad to over think a shot in a stand.

I make my own arrows and can’t tell you how many I didn’t get as straight as I thought or just don’t fly worth a flip and put them into the wall.