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Pappy:
I use the split finger ,middle finger corner of my mouth.I also want the arrow right at the top of my hand,I use a shelf but the arrow is right over my hand,not set hight like on a rest. I pick a spot swing arm up,set draw to anchor and shoot, It is kind of like pointing your finger at closer range,shoot like this for a while and you will train your eye/brain where to point. Start close 10 yards or so. Some use point of aim,tip or down the tube and it does work well with practice but really hard on selfbows to draw and hold that long. :)
   Pappy

johnston:
THINKING? What the hell...aiming ? Gotta Be kidding. Shoot another hundred? my, my, my.

Work your way through your form in controlled practice with reasonable attention and thought.
But when you actually start on that next 1000,000 arrows let it go to lizard brain and muscle memory.
Trust your brain to act without your conscious direction. It ain't like you are being graded.Just shoot that thang.

Lane

jonathan creason:
I gap too, and shoot 3 under with my middle finger anchored to my eye tooth and my index finger in the ridge at my gum line.  Fairly close to your "position 2".  Looks like you're shooting an aluminum arrow there, is it spine matched to your bow?  Self bows typically have a larger handle the arrow needs to wrap around, so you'll typically shoot a lower spined arrow.  That could be the reason you're having to adjust horizontally for aiming.

PAHunter:
@Pappy thanks Pappy!  I'm anxious to try this instinctive shooting method.  It's like the martial arts, for years I traind to punch and kick at the right time.  But now I've been doing it for 25 years and I just punch when it's time to punch and kick when it's time to kick.  reaching this kind of simplicity in technique is what we call mastering the art. 
@Lane that sounds like a solid plan!  I am a bit of a perfectionist and I hate wounding animals.  I pass up shots all the time becuase there are not "good enough".  I just want to know I can put it where it counts come hunting season.  1000,000, not a problem!  I LOVE shooting and have a lifetime to do it!
@Jonathan I am shooting aluminum arrows spined for 40-45 and my bow is 47ish.  I think I may end up doing basically that position but with middle finger in corner of my mouth so that my hand is low enough to get my thumb under my big jaw bone (it's really big  :laugh:).  This elm I'm shooting in the vid is almost exactly center shot, which should help.  I'm really hoping this instinctive thing works for me because the gap is just too large, again perhaps because of my big head.  I can't be aiming 4 feet below the deer, thats crazy.  :)  Though my mathmtical brain would be more comfortable with gap initially 4 sure.  thanks much!!
@Cameroo: thanks much man.  65 yards?!  wow

bowtarist:
There is a lot of good info here PA.  Think of instictive shooting like throwing a ball.  You don't aim your throwing arm, you look @ the target and your mind takes over and you hit the target.  Instictive shooting comes from hours of shooting.  It becomes second nature.  No need to get too serious now, hunting season is over, have fun and like you said, you love to shoot, so go do it. 

Some guys stand 5-10 yards back from the target, close their eyes and draw working more on form than accuracy.  I use three under on short bows to spare my fingers the pintch, but my new self bow didn't have a nock stop on it for awhile and I have been shooting split finger again w/ it.

Good luck and have fun, dpgratz

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