Bowhunter S Guide To Accurate Shooting

Perfect your bowhunting technique with this comprehensive guide covering equipment, skill-building, and field-tested tips for taking down big game. Most hunters agree that bowhunting is a low-percentage affair. To improve your chances in the field, it’s crucial that you choose the right equipment, set it up properly, and have the necessary skill to use it when the moment of truth comes. In this guide, expert archer and bowhunter Lon E. Lauber gives you the knowledge and techniques you need to drastically improve your accuracy. Whether you’re working with a compound bow, recurve or longbow, Lauber helps you understand your weapon. He then offers in-depth advice on how to practice good shooting form. This is followed by a discussion field skills such as balancing accuracy and speed and maintaining mental focus, and shooting in adverse conditions.

From the most trusted name in guns and ammunition comes this ultimate reference on bowhunting. The Shooter’s Bible Guide to Bowhunting offers everything you need to know about the sport and its gear, from its origin as a means of survival to modern gear. Compound bows and crossbows have undergone an explosive rise in popularity in recent years, due in part, Dr. Todd A. Kuhn explains, to complex socioeconomic, environmental, and biological factors. As expansive tracts of land vanish, many hunters can no longer pursue game with high-powered rifles. That, plus vast improvements in archery gear, has hunters flocking to compound bows and crossbows as alternatives. In the Shooter’s Bible Guide to Bowhunting Dr. Kuhn examines all things bowhunting and archery. Topics covered include: Compound, recurve, and traditional bows Arrows and broadheads Sights and rests Releases and triggers Quivers Tree stands, blinds, decoys, and other popular gear This exhaustive desk reference provides a never before seen look into the history and engineering of archery, theories and trends in game discipline, and, of course, an exhaustive catalog of archery equipment both new and traditional.

A complete guide to shooting with every major big-game caliber.

At head of title on cover: Petersen's bowhunting.

This 128-page guide provides expert information on becoming a better archery hunter and shooter, whether you are a beginner or seasoned expert. Featuring tips and secrets found only inside the pages of North Amerca's No. 1 whitetail magazine, Deer & Deer Hunting's Guide to Better Bowhunting is illustrated with instructional, eye-catching photography and tips that will make you a better shooter and hunter.

Advice on all aspects of selecting and shooting a longbow, including buying custom and choosing arrows.

Tune up your bowhunting skills! New to the bowhunting and archery game? Looking for some shooting tips to improve your extensive bowhunting experience? Bowhunters' Digest, 6th Edition has everything you need to take your skills to the next level. Expert archer, bowhunter and former big-game guide Patrick Meitin shares deer hunting tactics, equipment selection advice, and tuning and accuracy tips that will help you become a better bowhunter--whether it's your first season, or you've enjoyed it for decades. This completely updated guide provides top big-buck strategies for bowhunting white-tailed deer in the varied habitats they roam--classic farmlands, big-woods haunts, the plains and prairies, and suburban areas around the continent. Plus, there are calling and rattling tips, rub and scrape secrets, and strategies for consistent public-land success. Meitin offers comprehensive advice on how to become a better archer by learning how to choose the right equipment, and set up and maintain your bow, arrows, crossbow, bolts and more. His expert guidance shows you what it takes to improve your accuracy through proper shooting form, fundamental aiming techniques, and ultimately how to prepare for high-pressure bowhunting situations. Features: • Proven big-buck hunting strategies • Real-world advice on successful public-land bowhunting • Do-it-yourself instructions for setting up and tuning equipment • How to improve your accuracy • Equipment directory with the best new bowhunting gear