07 Plot your groups

This is an excellent exercise to do indoors, and one that can help with both your tuning and form work. Take a fresh target face and, if you’re able, shoot at it solo for the whole session. If you’re sharing details, mark your arrow holes with a pen. Try and

make sure they’re good shots; if you start to get tired and you notice your form suffering with it, take a break or call it a night and take your target face back for analysis. Look at the spread of your groups on the face. Do you have a tight central group with one or two wide strays? Is your group taller than it is wide, or stretching to the left or right? Where do your bad arrows go? While this can indicate a tuning issue, it can also point to some technique flaws you might be able to identify, for example, consistent wide arrows to one side might indicate you are canting the bow on a few shots, or have an occasional plucking release.