Where to look when at full-draw
BAREBOW- I've been wondering where I should be looking at full draw, I've been alternating through a couple places trying to find what gives me a decently consistent shot, but I'm not fully sold on anything yet.
For perspective, my form definitely isn't perfect or fully consistent, but I anchor at the same place, stand in the same place, and orient my body the same way for every shot. I'm definitely not consistent in the muscles I'm pulling back with (does alternate between shoulder and bicep) and I have considered that to be an issue, but for now I'm not exactly worried about aiming.
I'm just wondering where you guys look. I shoot barebow and have been using stringwalking as my shooting form for most of it (granted, I'm shooting 28lbs at 60ft on a 40cm target so I don't really know if it qualifies as stringwalking considering it closes the distance in a second...).
I've done instinctive where I just look at the target and pray, and I've tried doing that "line-blur" idea where I line up the string in my eye then look at the tip of my arrow as its pointed to the target, but that one feels really iffy for me... so just wondering how some more experienced archers look down range
Posted Mar 6, 2026, 4:06 AM UTC