I shot compound bows about twenty years ago, but I never used a bow sight or peep tubes, pins or any of that stuff, so it made my transition much easier. That said, i still have to say that shooting a long bow is a much different activity.... Someone mentioned canting the bow a little.... I started shooting much straighter after I started canting the bow. I shoot one over and two under and knock point is my thumb knuckle under my cheekbone, which puts my middle finger close to the corner of my mouth. Everyone has a different take on what it takes to put an arrow on target. For me, it has to be trying to become a consistent machine that does the same thing everytime. Like a golfer with a grooved swing or big league pitcher's wind up and throw. Add in the variables that hunting throws at you and a complicated routine just won't get it. After a few thousand million hundred shots.... muscle memory will take over the draw and release of an arrow. Accuracy is what I have to concentrate on. If you have spent much time shooting a rifle or pistol with iron sights, you learn that you focus on the front sight. You see it clearly. Your target somewhat hazy. Your rear sight hazy. But that front sight is clear as a bell... You can only see one part of your sight picture absolutely clear. Take that info to a longbow..... This is my way of doing it and it works for me... See the target, focus on the absolute smallest part of what you want to hit and try to burn a hole in it with your eyes. When I draw, there is a somewhat blurry vision of the arrow coming back to full draw and pointing at my target. Both eyes are open. See target clear. My bow is canted enough and my anchor is below my eye enough that I see the arrow come back and go forward on the release... The arrow is blurry... like the rear sight of pistol. I think of my arrow as riding on a kind of rail between my eyes and the target.... The rythym is what I strive for... a half a second at full draw and will it to the bullseye with a good smooth release.... If one misses... I tell myself it was a freak accident, a bad release, or some other deviation from what I usually do. It is a bow and not a laser guided space age weapon. I can group in a place as big as my hand out to about 25 yards - and I have huge hands... lol. straight enough for hunting though. Sorry to ramble, but I hope this helps.
