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Hawkdancer:
Not enough good practice! Muscle memory, hand eye coordination, and timing - then doing the exact same sequence, draw, release, and follow through every time! After enough repetitions and years, you can pick up any similar weapon and be pretty close to accurate, and be able to adjust to the target. I have put 100s of thousands of rounds down range with rifles and pistol, maybe 100k with a bow over 70 years of shooting and still try to use repetitive sequences on every shot. But everyone has to be familiar with their equipment!
Hawkdancer
Woodely:
I'am not here to argue..! just making a point but you cannot argue this term because most Archers and the whole archery community Professionals and competition Archers refer to Instinctive as shooting without sights. Without sights there is no aiming.
How can you call shooting a Gun from the hip Aiming...? Or please define the term Instinctive, or what is the Definition. What the Archery experts say its shooting a bow without sights or using a fixed point.
https://www.hunter-ed.com/georgia/studyGuide/Aiming-the-Bow/201011_700016045/
You adjust the aim for different distances by instinct developed with practice... There again I guess a 3 year old could practice with sights but shooting instinctive for a 3 year old would take years of practice. In its pure form, instinctive shooting is performed just as you'd throw a stone or a ball — by looking at what you want to hit and letting 'er fly.....
At some point I do aim but only briefly, I focus on the target, slowly raise the bow bring it to my anchor point look down the arrow towards the target then focus totally on the target with both eyes or the dominant one. The last few seconds I'am not using any fixed point on the bow.
DC:
--- Quote from: DC on February 26, 2019, 09:45:24 pm ---If it was instinctive a 3 year old could shoot 300. I think you are confusing instinctive with habitual. If it was instinct tennis players wouldn't have to practice 18 hours a day. You start with the first rock you throw and train muscles to work together to hit what you aim at. Your brain knows that arrow is there and how to position your muscles so it will hit what you're looking at. Maybe we're saying the same thing.
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Woodley- sorry for this rant. For some reason the name "Instinctive" just sends me off my rails. It's really just semantics and I shouldn't over react. I know what you mean and I should just accept it and bite my tongue. :)
Woodely:
Be it as it may semantics or whatever. Its funny others on here that mention Instinctive time and time again wont chime in and just let us argue the point to no avail. I'am not saying my definition is correct but there has to some validity to it. I find that online discussion about a subject that differs in opinion never seems to get anywhere. Its almost like a generation gap.
Enough said from this cowboy. (A)
Pappy:
Call it what you like and you are right Woodely it is discussed a lot and everyone has their own thoughts on the subject, but what DC said is dead on. Your brain don't know with the first arrow or base ball what to do but over time doing it over and over again it will learn where you need to be pointing to hit what you want. (-P
Pappy
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