Post by * on May 13, 2014 14:15:55 GMT
There are three fundamental approaches.
1) Instinctive
2) Gap
3) String walking
Instinctive is shooting a bow the same way you throw a baseball when playing catch. Instinctive is driven around having good shooting form and consistency, so that the mental picture of the arc your arrow makes is executed by your body. There are people who argue that instinctive shooting doesn't really exist, and that people are really just unconsciously shooting via gap method. Usually those are Gap shooters, and instinctive shooters usually respond by making fun of Gap shooters as using something on your bow as a sight to try and sounds superior to people who use sights, and so on ... Gap shooters then tell the instinctive shooters that if they actually used their head for something other than something to dream up foolish comebacks, they might actually hit something with their arrows once in awhile ... those of us less concerned about the semantics wander off about this time and just shoot.
Gap shooting essentially is just using something on your bow as a sight ... most typically the point of the arrow. If you have consistent anchor, your arrow will come to the same point relative to your bow each time. Then with practice you would use the tip of your arrow as one refererence point and then the target as a second reference point and look at the "gap" between them. Based on the distance the "gap" will change. At some distance the tip of the arrow will actually be relative to the target and this is the distance where you are "point on". From there if you are closer to the target you'll be under and further from the target you'll be over.
Stringwalking is a related technique that is not as common but is very effective.
Essentially, you always leave the arrow point on, but change where you grip the string. So, for example, lets say you were "point on" at 50 yards. At 30 yards, if you stayed "point on" you would shoot high normally. However, if you now grip the string BELOW THE ARROW so that the nock of the arrow is higher than your nock point it will shoot lower, because it is actually being aimed lower. Now, if you count the number of serving loops down you have to go to stay "point on" at the closer distances, effectively you just point the arrow at the target every time. It isn't that popular because you can get some wierd flight characteristics in your arrow coming out of the bow, and that tracking servings can be a pain, but there are people who can use it to amazing effect.
1) Instinctive
2) Gap
3) String walking
Instinctive is shooting a bow the same way you throw a baseball when playing catch. Instinctive is driven around having good shooting form and consistency, so that the mental picture of the arc your arrow makes is executed by your body. There are people who argue that instinctive shooting doesn't really exist, and that people are really just unconsciously shooting via gap method. Usually those are Gap shooters, and instinctive shooters usually respond by making fun of Gap shooters as using something on your bow as a sight to try and sounds superior to people who use sights, and so on ... Gap shooters then tell the instinctive shooters that if they actually used their head for something other than something to dream up foolish comebacks, they might actually hit something with their arrows once in awhile ... those of us less concerned about the semantics wander off about this time and just shoot.
Gap shooting essentially is just using something on your bow as a sight ... most typically the point of the arrow. If you have consistent anchor, your arrow will come to the same point relative to your bow each time. Then with practice you would use the tip of your arrow as one refererence point and then the target as a second reference point and look at the "gap" between them. Based on the distance the "gap" will change. At some distance the tip of the arrow will actually be relative to the target and this is the distance where you are "point on". From there if you are closer to the target you'll be under and further from the target you'll be over.
Stringwalking is a related technique that is not as common but is very effective.
Essentially, you always leave the arrow point on, but change where you grip the string. So, for example, lets say you were "point on" at 50 yards. At 30 yards, if you stayed "point on" you would shoot high normally. However, if you now grip the string BELOW THE ARROW so that the nock of the arrow is higher than your nock point it will shoot lower, because it is actually being aimed lower. Now, if you count the number of serving loops down you have to go to stay "point on" at the closer distances, effectively you just point the arrow at the target every time. It isn't that popular because you can get some wierd flight characteristics in your arrow coming out of the bow, and that tracking servings can be a pain, but there are people who can use it to amazing effect.