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Woodely:

--- Quote from: Pappy on February 28, 2019, 04:45:54 am ---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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Ok,   what Don said was  "you have to aim in one form or another"   "doing it over and over again it will learn where you need to be pointing to hit what you want."   Is pointing another way of saying its aiming.

Pat B:
I guess pointing is the same as aiming. I look where I want my arrow to go. With enough practice the arrows will go where you are looking. The smaller your target is the closer you'll get to that point so instead of looking at the target overall concentrate on one particular spot, another arrow hole, a slight discoloration or whatever and not just the target.
 When shooting a basketball, throwing a baseball or football you don't aim but look where you want the ball to go. Same with instinctive shooting  with archery.

DC:
My complaint is not with how it works. It's the use of the word "instinctive" that bothers me. Humans have very few instincts left and throwing/pointing is not one of them. They are learned. I know it's picky and I don't know why it bothers me. It should be called "unconscious" or "habitual". I'll try and keep my mouth shut about it because it wastes a lot of time for no good purpose. I gave up trying to change the world when I turned 30 and now we have legalised marijuana I care even less ;) ;)

Pat B:
The book I learned to shoot from was G.Fred Asbell's "Instinctive Shooting" so that's why I say I shoot instinctively. Call it what you may but this a universal term for this type of shooting. Just like our primitive archery isn't really primitive archery.  :)

Pappy:
I don't know DC , I have a grand daughter that as soon as she could move her arm would point at what she wanted, she hadn't been around long enough at that time to learn that. ;) This conversation is always fun, always seems to get under the skin of folks that use a point of aim that some
don't. I guess I do aim, :-\  I look at what I want to hit, point my arm at it and over time I learn the trajectory.  :) Eye hand coordination which is if I am not mistaken [correct me if I am wrong] you are born with.  (-P
 Pappy

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