re: Increasing accuracy with a bow

It may be your arrows. Having correct spine weight and a quality straight arrows made a big difference for me starting out.

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Gold Tip

FWIW I went from a gold tip pro hunter to a maxima red and saw a dramatic improvement in accuracy especially with broadheads.

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The biggest improvement came when I started paying attention to where everything was touching on my face and nose.

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This really helped me. My anchor point is five different things, release to corner of mouth, string to lip, string to nose, knuckle to ear, and peep to sight. For me, the more checks I have for being consistent the tighter my groups are.

Also don't underestimate relaxing. You shouldn't be stiff, anywhere but in your core to keep things stable. When I stopped being scared of the string ripping my arm off, i.e. got used to my bow's let off, I could truly relax in my stance. My groups got much, much tighter and it was much easier to hold the pin on target without it jumping around.

The way to shoot a bow accurately is not to shoot a bow. You stay out of the way and let the bow shoot. You're a bow stand and pointer.

And practice. Lots of practice.

I have been thinking of picking up a few better arrows to see if that helps. What broad heads yall use? I picked up some rage broad heads. I haven't shot anything so I don't know how they perform. Whats yall's opinions on expandable vs fixed?

I can't see the pic in the OP, but I take the orange rifle target stickers that are about quarter size and tear them in 4 pieces so they are about 1 cm by 1cm and use those. As said, Aim small miss small and when you use very small targets you really figure out how you are missing. When you aim at something 2 inches or bigger at 20 yards you are not doing yourself any favors.

Then when you aim at those really small dots at 40+ yards, you'll be able to really fine tune things. After a couple of months, practicing at 20 yards is almost a joke, most guys especially just the weekend shooters only shoot out to 40. If you practice at 50, 60, 80 yards you really get good at shooting with proper form.

ETA: Don't sweat the bow OP, nothing wrong with a Mission or any bow that is not one of the big 3 to 4 name brands.