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Our mind creates efficiencies to get the explosion over with and brace our body, which we see as a flinch or trigger punch. When we’re aiming, our mind knows that when the pin gets on the target, the explosion is coming.

He says that our brain doesn’t want to allow us to cause our body impact as a surprise. Turner explains that this is the core problem in shooting and the root of our accuracy problems.

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or at full draw with a compound bow your natural tendency is to anticipate the explosion that’s about to happen and brace for the impact. He’s developed a system for curing target panic, buck fever, and generally screwing up in high-pressure situations. He’s blueprinted his journey to accurate shooting through his Shot IQ course, which is all about the mental side of archery. Turner is now a retired SWAT sniper and shooting instructor. Before he was a deadly bowhunter and capable of precision in the highest pressure situations, he missed elk and deer at very close ranges for years. Target panic can be crippling for a shooter. But at its most extreme, target panic can cause an archer to not even be able to float his pin over the bullseye, or to blackout during the shot on a buck of a lifetime. We can still shoot effectively at modest ranges using this method (at least most of the time). Many of us deal with target panic by punching the trigger on our release aid when we hope our pin is on target. Put plainly, target panic is the anxiety that builds up during the shot process, often while we are aiming and just before we loose the arrow. For most bowhunters, target panic is always lurking in the background causing us to blow easy shots by punching the trigger.