Perhaps your stance or head position is slightly different between blank baling and actually shooting at a target because subconsciously you know that you don't need to be lining up the sight?

 

Aiming too hard.

 

Ted -

Pretty std stuff, and happens to all of us.

As soon as a target is in front of you, you start using different parts of your brain and that gets in the way of making the shot.

That's one reason I tell my new clicker users to start and end every practice session with a few ends of blank bale/watch the clicker exercises. Whenever the clicker break becomes an issue, going the back to the bale and seeing the clicker break can correct the short circuit.

Another trick that can work is when you have the "clicker panic" (which is what it is) while still focusing on the target, play back the tape of seeing the clicker break at the bale.

Unfortunately, that implies you were taught to use the clicker correctly, there is no form change and the target elevations are the same. If you can easily break the clicker @5 yards and not a 70M, that's a different scenario.

Viper1 out.

 

I do the same thing. I can only determine that my bow arm angle changes to make my draw longer at shorter distances and shorter at longer distances. For instance at 60m I have even more trouble with getting through clicker. Sometimes a move the clicker to compensate.

 

Cliker position defines one of the 3 vectors that make the balance at full draw and give the advantage of constant force to the arrow.
His position should be established when at perfect T position, that means with arrow almost parallel to (flat) ground.
The T on the shoulders must of course be kept when changing to targets over that line or lower than the line, by tilting your body, as all field shooters perfectly know, otherwise the triangle of forces will change and give a different point of balance for them.
Proper way to avoid that change is to learn to watch the point of the arrow under the cliker up to full draw and just before the final aiming. Doing this, the exct draw becomes a constant in the balanced system and if you have problems in reaching it, you learn how to adjust tilting, back alignment and anchor to it.

 

Vittorio -

Grazie.

Viper1 out.

 

It is important to remember:
MAKE THE CLICKER CLICK, DO NOT WAIT FOR IT, IT WILL STILL DO IT’S JOB.

If you wait for it to click, you will get bubbles in front of your eyes.