🎯 Archery, Biology, and the Art of Chasing “Why”

There’s this moment every archer knows: The worn leather grip in your palm, anchor point brushing your cheekbone, bow creaking like it’s holding its breath. The forest goes still, the arrow whispers away—and you wait.

When I started shooting, I never cared much about hitting bullseyes. What fascinated me was the scatter. Why was one arrow high left, another low right? What changed between shots?

That simple question—“why here, not there?”—turned archery into more than a sport for me. It became a system.