Mounted archery is extremely (and randomly) inaccurate

[xTrogdorx]

So I had put Skyrim down for a while and recently came back to it, and for this playthrough I threw the works at it, SKSE and SkyUI and sexlab and all that. I'm also using AFT and convenient horses, but I was using those before, and I don't remember this being a problem...

 

But now, whenever I try to shoot my bow from horseback, I find that the arrow never flies anywhere near where I'm aiming. It flies way off to the left, or way off to the right, or way low, and there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to it. I know AFT has some 'fast weapon redraw' thing that's supposed to fix a camera bug?

 

I find myself saving right before I engage every bear and sabrecat and wolf, taking a shot, looking to see at what extreme angle the arrow decides to fly off at, then reloading the save and taking the shot again to compensate for the inaccuracy.

 

Can anyone shed some light on what's going on here?

[Rayblue]

Enhanced Camera allows you to see things from horseback. Of course it needs SKSE to work.

 

Then you can try to practice aiming from horseback, using a tree or a lightpost as a target, and aiming and firing either while still or moving.

 

For the most part, the direction and speed of your arrow depends on your skyrim.ini settings:

[Combat]
fMagnetismStrafeHeadingMult=0.0
fMagnetismLookingMult=0.0
f1PArrowTiltUpAngle=0.7
f3PArrowTiltUpAngle=0.7
f1PBoltTiltUpAngle=0.7
f3PBoltTiltUpAngle=0.7

[Actor]
fVisibleNavmeshMoveDist=12288.0000

[xTrogdorx]

For the most part, the direction and speed of your arrow depends on your skyrim.ini settings:

 

This doesn't realy help... the problem I'm having is that the arrow is often not going anywhere near where my crosshair is pointing, and it's not the same each time, so it's not something I can practice for.

[Veladarius]

Try the Proper Aiming mod, I am pretty accurate on horseback with bows (and third person in general) and this helped quite a bit.