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Chief RID:
I have got more instinctive in the last 3 years but I still try to get my eye over the arrow and hold that alignment through the shot. I am a horrible wing shot with the shotgun and I think it spills over to my archery. I had to aim (gap shooting) to get he feel of hitting where I wanted to and then just do a checklist of things to maintain form and shoot instinctive at hunting distances. When I am shooting a lot and want to move beyond hunting distances I can but when not shooting a lot I have to revert back to gap shooting. A lot has to do with set-up and I am working on that now. I think it is hard for older folks. Not only does the mind slow down but the body too.

crooketarrow:
  GAP SHOOTING ONLY WORKS IF YOU KNOW THE DISTANT.

  Not a hunting metod of aiming. Target across the yard when you know the distances.

  Dont beleive me go's stump shooting and try gap shooting.

Pappy:
I know it seems I always disagree with you crooketarrow and I really don't mean it in a bad way but sometimes you are just not correct in what you post, I don't gap shoot but know lots of people that do and it is a very effective way to hunt or shoot a bow. Yes you need to know distance but you also need to know distance with any sight system type bow, compound with sights for example . Though you may not agree it's hard for anyone to say they aren't an effective way to hunt and so is gap shooting.  :) Some including me may not want to use them but they are still very very effective.  :)
 Pappy

Chief RID:
Yea. It would be hard to argue with some proficient bow hunters that gap shoot. Jimmy B. is an inspiration and sure has a lot of info that has helped me hit where I want to when I do my part. Having a hold that puts the arrow in the kill zone, aiming at the same spot for 15 yds is huge. I don't think my set up is doing that. That is what I am striving for now. I feel like if I can get that set up I will be really effective from 15 to 25 yds. I am already very effective inside 15 yds.

Pappy:
Ya Chief Jimmy was one of the ones I was talking about, most times a deer or anything else gets with in 20 yards of him it is going to be a bad day for them. :) He misses like everyone else, just not very often. ;)
 Pappy

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