Why am I Missing High?

[jjaimes]

I would be willing to bet what it is.

When you practice, you are shooting one eye shut.

When you are trying to make a kill shot, you are leaving both eyes open to see whats going to happen and where you hit it.

I did this a couple times and finally figured it out.

Go test on a target doing the opposite of what you normally do with your eyes. Its about a 6 inch difference for me.

I will find the link when I posted this same thing

See if you can post it. Honestly though, when I practice I have both eyes open and the same thing when shooting out a tree. However, I possibly could be anticipating the shot to see my arrow and I might be pulling it but I haven't been able to tell since it all happens so fast.

[jjaimes]

I just ran the calculations. At 35 yards and 15 feet up (which in reality is probably ~18 feet up since your either sitting or standing above the 15 foot tree stand.....you would shoot for 30 yards.

http://www.csgnetwork.com/righttricalc.html

This makes sense so would I have to range a tree at my eye level from up there instead of the actual object I'm shooting at?

[Patton]

You are bending at the shoulders and not the waist.

I agree with this.

[TXHUNT3R]

See if you can post it. Honestly though, when I practice I have both eyes open and the same thing when shooting out a tree. However, I possibly could be anticipating the shot to see my arrow and I might be pulling it but I haven't been able to tell since it all happens so fast.

Guess I didn't post here, thought I did.

If you normally shoot both eyes open just make sure you are doing the same.

Try to hold it little longer after you release and follow through because your reaction is to SEE WHERE IT HIT and you get that bow out of your face too fast.

[Troup]

Sight in on a 3D target. If sighted in on a flat surface like the block you can shoot high on an animal. Dont make sense but try it.

[txdukklr]

bend at the waist is the issue, i do it alot on long distance shots and it shows up a ton.

Here's what you should try . . . . for a while when you pull from the stand pull straight out not while at the animal. anchor the bow get rock solid and then bend at the waist to get to your target.

Also aim for the exit hole

[NoFence]

I just ran the calculations. At 35 yards and 15 feet up (which in reality is probably ~18 feet up since your either sitting or standing above the 15 foot tree stand.....you would shoot for 30 yards.

http://www.csgnetwork.com/righttricalc.html

No no no. If your range finder reads 35 yards and you're 18 feet up, you should shoot for 34.48 yards. So 35 yards lol. You've got to remember to convert feet to yards.

At an even higher stand height of 20 feet, you won't miss by more than one yard of distance for any shot over 20 yards. Unless you're shooting close range from a high distance, it's overrated to worry about accounting for horizontal distance.

[unclefish]

No no no. If your range finder reads 35 yards and you're 18 feet up, you should shoot for 34.48 yards. So 35 yards lol. You've got to remember to convert feet to yards.

At an even higher stand height of 20 feet, you won't miss by more than one yard of distance for any shot over 20 yards. Unless you're shooting close range from a high distance, it's overrated to worry about accounting for horizontal distance.

Yep didn't convert yards to feet.

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