Need advice - Anchoring/Freezing

[Gummi Bear]

I wear a wool neck gaiter pulled up over my face, and pull it down before I shoot. I have not practiced with it up so I have to shoot bare faced to find my anchor. I wear a fairly lightweight glove on my bow hand but not on my string hand. I keep my hands in a muff around my waist with some warmer packets.

I have a very similar strategy. But I just keep my hands in my coat pockets.

I can't shoot with a glove on my release hand (I shoot a thumb release) and I have 3 references when I anchor. String touches the tip of my nose, the corner of my mouth, and my hand is at the back of my jawbone between the first and second knuckle. Without all 3 in place, I have no confidence in the shot.

Last year I bought some proper cold weather gear. I bought a suit from Arctic Shield. With that, and some Capilene as a base layer, plus a beanie and a neck gaiter and some lightweight neoprene gloves, I stay warm.

I do need some warm boots, I plan to add some Muck boots to my kit. Work boots just don't cut it when it gets cold, even with Smartwool socks.

[SwampRabbit]

If I fire up the buddy heater in my blind, I start shedding clothes. Were you still cold?

Yeah, I had the portable... but as I said in my post, there were too many windows open so the AC was blowing harder than the heater.

i'll be zero help

i pull it all down and off before my shot. I have zero confidence without my kisser

Well that is what I was wonder if I was going to have to do; so actually very helpful. Seems like the one peice hampers that and that I need to have a seperate hat and neck/face mask that I can seperate and get near skin contact for the shot.

First knuckle on my trigger finger behind my ear--can feel it through gloves and a fleece gaiter, so no problem for me.

I didn't have an issue really with locating the anchor so much as I couldn't physically reach it. There was just too much padding between my knuckle and my skull to get my peep/sight aligned with my nose touching.


What Jerp said seems to make sense. I just need a better way to free up my anchor points starting with not wearing a heavy glove and warming them differently, and having a way to seperate the layers coverying my face so I can get my hand up against my face.