Purchase Your Archery Accessories Carefully

Generally people buy used or cheap bows to start off with, but this can be as expensive as buying the top of the line brand new. Ever heard the saying “penny wise pound foolish” or “goedkoopkoop is duurkoop!”…?

Most sellers don’t inform the buyer of all they need to know, they just want to get rid of the said items.

You need to purchase products specific to your needs. For example, equipment for indoor archery will not be similar to equipment for outdoor archery. Depending on the type of archery that you want to practice, you need to purchase archery accessories or equipment that fits the style and purpose of your endeavors.

For help in this regard please feel free to contact Archery Western Cape.

Archers generally need to take a look at a couple of things when buying new or used bows and equipment.

The most important is to check if the item you want to buy is going to fit your bow or the purpose you want to use it for.

Ask yourself:

What do I want to use this item for?

Can I use this item- will it fit my build- Draw Weight or Draw Length?

Will this item fit my bow and style of shooting?

Will it last for the duration I want to use it?

  

Might there be a slightly better item than this to use?

Archers need to practice with their own personalized equipment, because you get to know every inch of your equipment and this makes you a more efficient archer in the end.

It takes time to get used to new equipment.

So, choose wisely and if you’re in the middle of a competitive season, don’t just buy something and expect to win competitions with it.

For Example: If a professional buys a new release, he/she practices with that release for more than 4 months before going to a competition with it.

For more advice please contact archery Cape Town, we offer standardized products for archery and much needed advice.

Hide-out Archery Shop Cape Town can assist you to correctly tune your bow.

There are mainly a few things that separate the competitive archer from most bow-hunters today.

Number one is the willingness to work on their own equipment and set it up from start to finish. They also tend to seek out anything new that has the potential to increase their accuracy.

Every competitive archer knows that trying out new equipment and tweaking their current equipment can result in more wins.

For willing bow-hunters those tweaks might result in more successful hunting trips.

Below are a few things that might help increase your accuracy.

Most archers use peep sights.

Peep sights improve almost every archer's accuracy, peeps with a small-diameter hole is more accurate than larger diameter peep.

Hunters use the larger peeps when hunting because they let more light through and you have a better field of view.

Another must-have accessory is a stabilizer or dampener. This helps to quiet the bow and to help get a virtually shock-free shot from the bow.

Destroying bow shock is not the only thing stabilizers do.

Longer stabilizers help balance the bow and keep the bow steady in the hand, which results in tighter groups. If stabilizers help pro archers to get better results, would it not help you?

Invest money in a proper high end release if possible.

The proper release of an arrow makes just as much difference as shooting form.

A thumb or back tension release might be the way to go.

Check out a couple of options at your local Hide-out shop.

Building your own arrows or getting help from Hide-out Archery Shop Cape Town regarding arrows that give you tighter groupings might be worth the money.

If your arrows differ in weight even 5%, this will give you a difference in groups of 15-30% depending on the distance you shoot.

I always check my arrows and get them weighing as close to each other as I can and that has given me very tight groupings indeed up to 50m plus.

Even with cheap arrows this improves your groupings dramatically as the spine of an arrow doesn’t make as much of a difference as the weight of an arrow.

For any further assistance please don’t hesitate to contact us at Hide-out archery shop Cape Town.

Understanding Archery Basics

The basic steps of archery execution according to Hide-out Archery Shop Cape Town are stance, arrow nock-in, set-up, draw, anchor, aim, release and follow through. The way you stand when shooting your bow is as important as shooting the bow itself, you need be comfortable, standing feet apart, upright and with your body in line with the target, not facing the target. Then nock-in your arrow on the string below the nocking point and place the arrow on the arrow rest. Setting-up the bow to draw is basically making sure your fingers on the string are one on top and two below the arrow in its nocking position, your bow hand is holding the riser of the bow correctly, getting ready to draw the bow.

Before drawing the bow make sure the draw weight is comfortable for you and it’s not a huge struggle to pull. You must be able to do it comfortably and get 30-40 shots of without killing yourself. Now draw the bow with your front arm extended, leaning over slightly and using your draw hand pull back as you lift up your elbow and rotating your shoulder back and down, the movement is across your chest and as you come to 70% full draw start lifting your elbow. Anchor your fingers against your face with your nose touching the string; put your thumb knuckle under your chin. Make sure your shoulder is rotated back and down. On your bow arm the elbow should be parallel to the riser of the bow. Here at Hide-out Archery Shop Cape Town we believe the anchor point should be consistent in order to be accurate.

Aiming the bow completely depends on the style of shooting, if you learning to shoot instinctively, you not going to use any part of the bow as a reference point to aim, obviously the first couple of shots will be a shot in the dark but start off close, focus on the spot you want the arrow to hit and release slowly while expanding the chest and pulling the back muscles closer to the spine and just let the string slide of your fingertips. Follow through keeping your body position until the arrow hits the mark; let your draw hand stop just behind your ear and keep squeezing your back muscles. For any archery tips or equipment please visit Hide-out archery shop Cape Town.

Hide-out Archery Training Cape Town

Hide-out Archery Shop Cape Town can assist you in determining your draw length for a compound bow when shooting with a release aid.

Most compound bows are designed to work with a specific draw length in mind, thus they will only drawback to a specific distance or length before it stops.

This means the bow can only be shot from the specific full-draw position, for instance a bow set for a 29” draw length, can only be shot comfortably from the full 29” draw position.

It’s very unlikely that a compound bow will be over-drawn, say to 30” or 31” without changing the setup on the bow first.

A compound bow needs to be set-up so the draw length matches your particular size.

To measure your draw length, stand with your arms out and palms facing forward. Don’t stretch when measuring just stand normally.

Have someone help you to measure from the tip of one middle finger to the tip of the other middle finger.

Then simply divide that number by 2.5 and you have your draw length.

This is only a good starting point as you need to keep in mind that the draw length might need to be fine-tuned to get the desired results depending on the release aid used to shoot the bow with.

For any further assistance please don’t hesitate to contact us at Hide-out Archery Shop Cape Town.