Thread: What I have learnt about my new bow so far

I did instinctive ABA (bowhunting style) for 4 years as a teenager. I had another crack at it a couple of years ago using a sighted compound and then graduated onto a traditional longbow (again back to instinctive.

Biggest cheat to getting very good accuracy is to buy yourself a release aid and stop using your fingers to release the string. I used a peep in the string and a standard 3 pin front sight - by training up you can get to the point where you can hit a tennis ball sized target at 70m say 8-9 times out of 10.

But if you must use fingers then I recommend a soft leather glove (not a hard one and definitely not those weird pieces of leather with a hard bit of plastic). I found 3 fingers under the nock was always better than split fingers. Definitely no gripping the bow with your bow hand. Get a stabiliser if your bow rolls fwd in your bow hand.

Your arrows must be matched to the weight that you are shooting. Using heavy arrows for 70lbs draw weight is not optimum. You can use much lighter / quicker arrows for 50lbs.