Is there any shame.........
........in using a "sight" with a recurve or longbow?
Here's my reason for asking. I'm shooting pretty good gap style and with practice will get better I'm sure, but I got the weird idea to make a small reference to help my shooting so I taped (with a small piece of electrical tape) a piece of a toothpick to the front of the sight window of my Bear Kodiak Hunter.
Two3 arrow groups later and my simpletoothpick was "sighted in" by simply taking my consistent anchor and putting the tip of that toothpick on the dot.............my accuracy was instantly improved by an almost embarrassing amount.[:-]
I didn't get out to any distance but I was easily keeping 3 and 4 arrow groups in a 1/2 dollar at 12 yards. (distance corner to corner in my basement) My confidence went wayyyyyyyyyyy up.
I could easily see setting something like that at say 15 yards dead on and then learning to hold accordingly a little further or closer.
The problem is I feel like I'm cheating.
Why is that?
If I go down that road to kill an animal am I no better than if I was using my compund with a pin sight and a release?
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