Bought a compound bow today.

[Obreh Winfrey]

When I was testing for draw weight without a sight, probably 3-4 yards away from the target wall, that arrow was going way higher/lower than where I was expecting it to be at.

Got this sight though

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I don't know the distance we were at, felt a whole lot farther than that but may not have been . But these were unsighted recurve bows. That woman gave us enough instruction to stand correctly and shoot the arrows in the general direction of the targets, and that was that.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Practice a lot. A lot a lot a lot a lot.

I've never bowhunted before, but the stories I hear from bowhunters is that you have to be extremely good with your shot down to pure muscle memory and instinct before you're good enough to hunt. It's like making a shot in the gym versus hitting it in a real game, the conditions and adrenaline and everything are so different when you're really out in the field. And if you miss, it's not just a miss like "oh well", but a lot of times you hit the animal in the leg or the mouth or some shyt that doesn't kill it right away but it dies after a few hours or days so you never find it and all the suffering was for nothing.