Is my anchor position too high (pictures) or peep sight too low

[sambow]

Originally Posted by Jerry Tee

Looking at the pictures I notice that you did not change you anchor when you moved the peep sight up. Correct me if I am wrong here but it appears as if you anchor with to the jaw with the gap between the first and second knuckles. All the raising of the peep sight did (apart from giving you more elevation)was to make your anchor less settled, because the anchor moved down away from the jaw a bit.
How about changing the anchor to jaw bone between the second and third knuckles as well as raising the peep. This would drop the anchor lower so that the correct location of the peep would be higher?

Hi Jerry.

You may be right. My current anchor sits with the back of my hand lightly against my face, I understand what you mean about the two knuckles as I once anchored that way but the contact between hand and face is more back of hand than knuckles. On the second shot my hand anchored lower down on my face (you can see more of my ear on the photo). It felt pretty awful to be honest because with my normal anchor I feel the knock of the arrow on the side of my chin and the back of my hand appears to have somewhere to rest, with my lower anchor all I could feel was string and my hand appeared to be floating (none of this is visible on the photos which look quite similar).

I have just had a little play, in my original "experiment" I moved the peep around 10mm which may not have been enough. Anchoring as you suggests would appear to allow a peep movement of 20-30mm. I am a little reluctant to change my style too much as I hit really bad form a couple or so months ago and I am just beginning to shoot at or above where I would like to be. I will go to the club tonight and have another ago at getting over 70M as I have upped my poundage by about 4lbs and switched to my single cam bow as well. If I still can't get near 90M I will give your suggestion a try.

[niceguy]

Re the string splitters I sent you

Now I know what you look like I can keep an eye out for you at shoots and claim my pint of beer

Your hand looks very flat against your face, if you roll your hand down more horizontal while still keeping the first knuckle under your jaw bone you can gain a little. Depends if it's comfy or not. My peep is 138mm (5.5 inches). I can get 100yds easily off 53 Lbs. Perhaps you need to look at your draw weight/arrow speed/arrow weight.

Andrew

[sambow]

Originally Posted by niceguy

Perhaps you need to look at your draw weight/arrow speed/arrow weight.

The arrow weight maybe the issue but I can't do much about it. i usually shoot carbon impacts whcih are brilliant and will reach 90M easily. But there is a shoot coming up that doesn't allow all carbon arrows. I couldn't afford navs, ace's etc so went for what I could afford axis fmj's but they are on the heacy side, hence why I am trying to find a cost effective solution.

[niceguy]

Axis FMJ are HEAVY. The only other advise I can give you is to try Cartel Tripples as they are much lighter and are a surprisingly good shaft given Cartel's reputation for iffy products. The Pros will sniff at Tripples but I find them good.

[pyroarch57]

You may find a cost effective solution but will it also be a form effective solution. I would take Niceguys suggestion and look to your arrows.

[niceguy]

I was shooting 500 triples this evening at 100 yds with 53 lbs out of my proelite (slow cam 1/2). My sight is about 4 inches out from the bow and the bottom of the scope is 1.5 inches above the arrow.