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Anyone not using a peep?

Curious if anyone has any tips for anchor control. I know the nose button helps, yet wondering what you do in addition to this?
 
Curious if anyone has any tips for anchor control. I know the nose button helps, yet wondering what you do in addition to this?

Do you have a PVC practice "bow"? I get a 3 foot piece of 1 inch pvc and run a cord through it and tie a release loop on that and can then mess around and find anchors, etc.

Then it is finding the anchor that is repeatable for you given your form and body/face shape. I tried too long to anchor the way experts and books told me to do.

I have found that a bone on bone anchor with clear landmarks works best for me. I shoot an index release and put first knuckle of index finger in the divet under the ear lobe formed by the back of jaw bone. I also find that it is best for me to practice carefully to find this but then once muscle memory is set then not to pay super attention to it (as that will mess me up). Hope that helps.
 
I tried no peep and shot worse, put back on, shot better. You’ll definitely group worse... three points of anchor is needed i have been taught. Mine are my release on my jaw, nose touching string, and the faintest feeling of the string on corner of my mouth.

getting better at my form elliminated the need for kisser buttons for me. But i dont know anyone who is super accurate without a peep. Seems like the equivalent of not have iron sights on a rifle, and just a bead on the end of barrel..
 
Do you have a PVC practice "bow"? I get a 3 foot piece of 1 inch pvc and run a cord through it and tie a release loop on that and can then mess around and find anchors, etc.

Then it is finding the anchor that is repeatable for you given your form and body/face shape. I tried too long to anchor the way experts and books told me to do.

I have found that a bone on bone anchor with clear landmarks works best for me. I shoot an index release and put first knuckle of index finger in the divet under the ear lobe formed by the back of jaw bone. I also find that it is best for me to practice carefully to find this but then once muscle memory is set then not to pay super attention to it (as that will mess me up). Hope that helps.

Thanks, this is helpful and yes, I do have a practice "bow" that I used when I was getting used to a thumb release. I can dig that out and try to create more solid anchor points other than my nose on the string. Makes sense that once you get these down to let muscle memory take over from there.
 
Thanks, this is helpful and yes, I do have a practice "bow" that I used when I was getting used to a thumb release. I can dig that out and try to create more solid anchor points other than my nose on the string. Makes sense that once you get these down to let muscle memory take over from there.

Yep, if I focus on all the little things, then it clutters my mind and I end up not doing anything well. After 1,000s of arrows the same way, your body knows what I good shot feels like (but little cues on difficult areas can help too).
 
I tried no peep and shot worse, put back on, shot better. You’ll definitely group worse... three points of anchor is needed i have been taught. Mine are my release on my jaw, nose touching string, and the faintest feeling of the string on corner of my mouth.

getting better at my form elliminated the need for kisser buttons for me. But i dont know anyone who is super accurate without a peep. Seems like the equivalent of not have iron sights on a rifle, and just a bead on the end of barrel..

Olympic recurve archers don't use a peep.
 
find me several olympic/pro compound archer without one

? Literally any Olympic archer you could imagine because it is in the rules that they cannot use a peep sight. They also can't use a release. There is no Olympic compound archery. Just google image "olympic recurve" and every image will be without a peep sight.
 
This probably proves my ignorance but anyway.... When I first started shooting a compound bow I followed all the pro recommendations on anchor and form and back tension and all that....as I got more experience and really once I started building arrows and attempting to tune my own bow I find myself worrying little to none about any of that. It took a bunch of trial and error but I tuned the bow to my faults in form...removing the peep combined with ezv sight and lots of tune and I can raise the bow and hit kill zone size targets without much thought. Whenever I was actually hunting I never got a textbook stance like while practicing...I was always in an awkward position or kneeling or whatever. So that's how I started practicing and setting up my bow to shoot. If u put a square on the bow or a tech looked at it it's probably all wrong but it shoots my arrows true and I'm accurate with it...I may not be hitting pingpong ball sized targets but I hit vital zone size targets very consistently without much thought from weird shooting positions. It feels much more natural than the stringent routein I was doing before and I feel much more confident

A friend shot my bow and missed the target at 20yds but did comment on how well the arrow flight was
 
This probably proves my ignorance but anyway.... When I first started shooting a compound bow I followed all the pro recommendations on anchor and form and back tension and all that....as I got more experience and really once I started building arrows and attempting to tune my own bow I find myself worrying little to none about any of that. It took a bunch of trial and error but I tuned the bow to my faults in form...removing the peep combined with ezv sight and lots of tune and I can raise the bow and hit kill zone size targets without much thought. Whenever I was actually hunting I never got a textbook stance like while practicing...I was always in an awkward position or kneeling or whatever. So that's how I started practicing and setting up my bow to shoot. If u put a square on the bow or a tech looked at it it's probably all wrong but it shoots my arrows true and I'm accurate with it...I may not be hitting pingpong ball sized targets but I hit vital zone size targets very consistently without much thought from weird shooting positions. It feels much more natural than the stringent routein I was doing before and I feel much more confident

A friend shot my bow and missed the target at 20yds but did comment on how well the arrow flight was

You must have pretty good form. If you torque the bow too hard, you won't be able to even tune it right-left without perhaps moving the rest all the way in or out (and even then it might not work). Once you tune to your form, then you need to shoot with that same form. Some forms are more easily repeated time after time.
 
I have found that with a nose button and lining up my blurry view of the string at full draw with the edge of the sight housing - I am consistent
 
Curious if anyone has any tips for anchor control. I know the nose button helps, yet wondering what you do in addition to this?
I like using a kisser button. Just seems so natural to me at the corner of my mouth. Tried the nose button and didn't care for it. My shooting is real consistent with no peep and a kisser so sticking with that. Really enjoying the full field of view and wish I had ditched the peep many years ago.
 
I just tried the no peep idea, and wanted to rock it. I just couldn't get good groups. Back to the crappy-low-light-visibility of peep world for me. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't bummed.
 
If you want remove the peep you can use an holographic red-dot.
I never mount the peep on my PSE Vendetta XS...
I use the red-dot directly.
Super fast aim system and super accurate...
You can easily shoot 3 arrows ,one inside the others, at 30mt without any problems.

Best Regards

Dino
 
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