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STARTING OUT THE ESSENCE OF ACCURACY

he obvious objective of an archer, of any discipline, is consistent accuracy. This goal is no secret. What is required is repetitive duplication. If it was physically and mentally possible to make every shot an exact video replay of the previous, then all our arrows would group in the one spot. That possibility, of course, is hampered by the reality, that our arrows are ‘human’, and both from the physical and mental standpoint, duplication remains an improbable outcome. I say improbable because we are all aware that with a compound bow in particular, in the hands of an elite professional perfect

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