Hi, I'm Mike Hirschi with Lightning Archery. We're here to talk about accuracy with a compound bow. A few things when you are trying to improve your accuracy and to shoot consistently in a pattern. A few things you need to do and the first one of those is you need to pick a bow with a correct draw length. A lot of people look for a bow and don't look at the ways to custom fit it to yourself. The draw length is when you draw the bow out and it's a comfortable position where you can hold the bow and your arms are extended or your left arm is extended if you are right handed and you comfortably anchor your right hand to your face or your neck or wherever you prefer there. That is the first thing in a compound bow is improving accuracy. You need to have correct draw length. The second thing I'd say is you need a bow that the handle, the grip is comfortable in your hand and you like that. If it doesn't feel comfortable then you are going to create some torquing problems and that is twisting on the bow or abnormal pressure in one area which will cause inconsistencies in accuracy. The third thing is you need to have the right poundage. Too low of poundage you probably won't be satisfied with the arrow trajectory you are getting and too high a poundage will cause you to fatigue faster and start to come apart and just shake and not have good accuracy as well. So those three things, draw length, a good grip and the right poundage. Now when you have got all that set up and you have picked your bow and you are going out to shoot it, here is basically four things that I think you need to do to promote good accuracy and the first one is you need to have a good anchor point. You need to develop that and find out what you like. What I would say on that is you attach your fingers if you are a finger shooter, or your release to the string, put that on there, and then you draw the bow back. The anchor point is this position of your, right here if you are a right-handed shooter, or left hand if you are a left-handed, the same, and it's where you place it on your face here. I like to take my knuckle of my index finger here and kind of place it right up underneath my ear right there and then I can also look right down the string and see through the peep sight when I'm doing that. Some people will place it on their neck right here. Some people will place it more out on their cheek. You need to find just a consistent anchor point, somewhere that you are consistent with every time. Then as you draw and shoot the bow, the next position here is your hand is your hold. As you draw here and you hold the bow out here if you hold with a tight grip like this, you will be more likely to torque the bow back and forth to the right or the left when you release. If you shoot with an open hand, with your fingers open like this and then you can even take and just roll your fingers back. As you draw the bow back to shoot, there's two other things that you want to do. You want to have that consistent anchor point, a good hold with the hand and then you will pick a spot that you want to hit and aim as small as you can on that spot, just called a tight aim, aim as small as you can on that spot and when you release, you need to have the follow through. So, as you pull and you release your shot, you don't want to immediately drop the bow or pull it to the right or to the left. You want to continually hold that bow until your arrow contacts the target and the bow will most generally if it's balanced properly, will just slightly roll forward in your hand like this. There is four things, a good anchor point, a good grip on your bow, a nice tight aim and good follow through and that basically wraps up, if you do those four things, then you will improve your accuracy.
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