It sounds like you know what you are doing considering you have taken an apparently very skittish animal with a bow, and I am wondering if you can give a new bow hunter some tips, like brand new. I bought my first compound bow earlier this week, bear Attitude. My local shop put the draw weight as low as it goes considering i am only 15. while setting up the bow I noticed I wasn't able to draw it past halfway. When I got home I did some dumbbell lawnmowers which is the same movement of drawing a bow, and i was able to do the same weight as the bow was set. This has been driving me crazy and I have talked to the guy who set me up and he said its all technique but I have not found a video that shows this technique. Any tips for a beginner?