How to aim accurately without a sight.
Ok I am a bit reluctant to ask this because it seems such a basic thing and I expected the answer to be all over the internet.I used to shoot a bow with a sight when I was young Now I started...
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I am no expert but this is how I do/did it. Start at only 3 or 4 yards from the target. Instead of aiming just look at and concintrate at a very small spot, don't look at the bullseye look at an...
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Joseph's giving good advice. How do you aim when you throw a rock? The sooner you free yourself from consciously observing the front of your arrow the better off you will be. Ken
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As in many skills repetition makes up for lack of talent. Thats how I learned to play the fiddle and shoot a bow. cheers fiddler49
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A way I see it is to not over think it, just practice over and over, I did this to and then I heard when someone said its instinct like you are throwing a ball. I then dropped all thinking as much as...
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Thanks for that inside This is far more a mental thing then I expected. The rock throwing thing makes a lot off sense to me. And I will mark the center off my target with the smallest x I can see from...
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Instinctive aiming is one big reason I find archery fun. It feels very honest (dont know if that sounds strange) and for me it is relaxing. If I want to try for pinpoint accuracy I take out one of my...
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"Let your mind go, and your body will follow"--Victoria Tennant, in L.A. Story. I know a guy, who counts his paces every where he goes and then looks back to where he started, so he can tell distances...
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I like to compare it to our fingers. We don't have to think to touch something or point at it. It is ingrained in us, from childhood. My goal is to make the arrow like an extra finger - an extension...
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think about this- man lived by the bow for several thousand years - he had to learn somehow. People have a tendency to "overthink" this. It's a very natural process- I didn't say "easy" just natural....
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Ken,that's a great analogy Me I learned to shoot a bow before they had wheels and sights Over the years I switched and followed the technology Then came back to trad/primitive bows,and your analogy is...
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Thanks for all the reply's some read like poetry! I think I can safely conclude I should: stop talking about it, stop thinking about it and start doing it. today I started making arrow so I hope the...
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I've only been shooting bows for two years, and I'm not a Top Shot by any means, but I took to instinctive pretty quickly. What might help at first, instead of shooting at a small spot, is shooting at...
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My recommendation is to get a copy of Zen in the Art of Archey by Eugen Herrigel. It's a mind expanding read on the nature of Zen, played against a backdrop of traditional Japanese archery practices....
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Yesterday I started shooting without any consius compensating. After a couple off rounds I got the same results as I had before. A bit later I improved on that so this seems indeed the way to go. I...
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It would be an advantage to have an expierenced primitive archer just watch you and make corrections. Gary
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A couple weekends ago, I had a learning experience with shooting. I went bowfishing, and for once got a lot of shots. Typically I get no shots, or maybe one. Hard to learn much, with one shot once or...
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The more consistencies you have in your shooting, the less variables there will be. Always come back to a consistent anchor point, follow-through by "painting your face" with your fingertips instead...
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toxophileken wrote:Well, the next morning after an unprecedented day of many opportunities, I got another shot. With no warm up, I hit the fish right where I was "looking". I believe my subconscious...
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If you have learned to depend upon using a sight then that it something that you should set aside if you want to shoot instinctively. What you describe, using the interval between the point in...
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