I’m the type of person who loves trying to get the most out of my equipment and I want to be as precise as possible when I release an arrow. Target panic seemed to come and go for me, but the more I practiced the worse it got. Throughout the years I’ve managed to scrape by when it comes to my anticipation. Basically, it is freezing off target or flinching while you are in the act of shooting an arrow. If you need a quick refresher on target panic, I suggest you check out this great article by Trail Kreitzer called Target panic: What to do and how to beat it. I completely broke down to a point I have been never experienced before. My section is at the 3:20 mark in that video. You can see a few clips of this on a goHUNT OFFSEASON video here. I came to full draw, settled in my achor points, and everything went haywire from there. I still remember it to this day, we were on target number four, a relatively easy 55 yard uphill shot. This fact was slammed home to me back in early June when I was shooting with some of the guys at the office at our local archery range. The first step toward fixing something is admitting you have it, right? For starters, I’ve had target panic off and on for a number of years since roughly 2009… actually, that isn’t true as I’ve never really been free from this tight grasp and I should have stated that I have target panic on a daily basis. I have target panic, actually, I have severe target panic.
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