How to Improve Your Accuracy with Bow & Arrow

Video Transcript

"Hello, I'm Leroy Sisco, and on behalf of Expert Village, I'd like to give you a few tips and techniques on archery. There are two things that are very important in archery to make you consistently accurate and one is, when you pull the bow back, you make sure you have a very solid rest every time. Some people prefer to pull it back, have a good rest with your hand, and then put your nose against the string, and that's a personal choice what you like. If you were accurate without that, then I would do that. My reason for not putting my nose on the string, when I hunt in a lot of bad weather I have a lot of extra clothing on here and here, and I just don't want anything to interfere with me being accurate, so I don't do that. But fortunately I can shoot fairly well without my nose being on the string. Another thing, there's two things that are important. One is, as I said, is the anchor point. Number two is your forward hand. This hand has to be very soft on this handle, and I always think of the handle having stickers on it, because if you don't and you grip the bow real tight you torque the bow, and therefore your arrow is not consistent. But whenever you do it the same every time, and all that touches on my bow is right here in the "Y" between my thumb and first finger, and I just touch them. That is all that touches the bow, my palm doesn't touch the bow, nothing but that part of my hand and so I don't torque it at all. And as a result, you become more consistent, you're extremely accurate whenever you shoot that way. Another nice thing about it, if you do a re-curve or stick bow, you come out and shoot those you have to shoot them alike, it's like throwing a baseball. You've got to throw a lot. With this bow, if you anchor the same and everything, you can pick this bow up three months later, and you're going to be deadly accurate with it. So, that's what I like about it. I get to shoot it in my backyard, and I can do a lot of shooting like that. But there are times that I get busy and I don't get to shoot for three or four weeks, but I can come back and in ten minutes be back on, be accurate, and feel very comfortable with it."